Intervention Category	Intervention sub‐category	Category code	Examples
Early child development (ECD): Encompasses physical, socio emotional, cognitive and linguistic development between 0‐8 years of age	Early childhood Health intervention: This includes initiatives in health care, including health service provision, disease prevention, and health promotion to provide the continuum of maternal and child pre‐ and postnatal care.	ECD1	Health screening for pregnant women Maternal Immunization Birth spacing Cessation of smoking and substance misuse during pregnancy Support of mental health, New born screening Skilled attendants at birth, Childhood immunization, Prevention and integrated management of childhood illness Early identification through observation on child's behaviour Observation of parent‐child interaction Screening tests Identification and detection of risk factors, e.g. toxin exposure in utero, asphyxia, prematurity etc.
	Early childhood nutritional interventions: This includes initiatives to ensure that pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and young children are adequately nourished	ECD2	Promotion of adequate maternal nutrition Breast feeding promotion Supplementary feeding Dietary diversity Salt iodization Micro‐nutrient supplementation
	Early childhood education and Parenting: This includes interventions that provide opportunities for children to interact with responsive adults and actively learn with peers to prepare for primary school entry and also interventions directed on parent training.	ECD3	Pre‐schools/Pre‐primary/Kindergarten Day care/crèche Health based‐mother and child interventions Parenting education/programme Care institutions Child‐to‐child programmes
	Women/Maternal Education and empowerment: Interventions working with the mothers and families to change parents’ or caregivers’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviours or to encourage dialogue on health care services and decision making by women	ECD4	Participatory action groups on Gender norms Campaigns on maternal health education and girl child education Couples interventions Counselling (FP, ANC) for men and women, encourage men support Vocational training/life skill education Women support group on financial and gender issue
Health and Nutrition (HN): A health intervention is an act performed for, with or on behalf of a person or population whose purpose is to assess, improve, maintain, promote or modify health, functioning or health conditions.
	Antenatal care, childbirth and post‐natal care by TBA/SBA: These interventions support and encourage women to adopt maternal health practices	HN1	receipt of HIV testing and PMTCT services ART adherence TT and intake of iron/folate supplements use ITNs Counselling on adequate nutrition and rest Awareness on exclusive breast‐feeding Family planning services
	Childhood Immunization: Promote and provide routine immunization/vaccination in infants/children	HN2	Training Supportive supervision Use of mass media Infrastructural development, e.g. provision of health facilities, provision of road to improve access to health facilities outreach; home visits; integration of vaccination with other services; IEC Parenting awareness on importance of immunization
	Agricultural intervention/bio‐fortification: Process to increase the density of vitamins and minerals in a crop through plant breeding, transgenic techniques, or agronomic practices.	HN3
	Nutritional supplementation program: Interventions to promote supplementation of nutrients	HN4	Vitamin A supplementation from 6 months of age in Vitamin A deficient population Iron and folic acid supplementation Therapeutic zinc supplementation in children Iodization of salt/Iodine supplementation
	Management of severe acute malnutrition: Acutely malnourished children lack growth nutrients that are required to build new tissues. These nutrients aid weight gain after illness, repair damaged tissues and help replace the rapid turn‐over of cells (intestine and immune cells). Correct replenishment of nutrients like essential amino acids (protein), potassium, magnesium and zinc (among other minerals) is essential for recovery from malnutrition.	HN5	Targeted Nutrition supplementation Referral to hospital Recovery from diarrhoea Clinical Management
	Community health interventions including CHWs: Interventions in which communities direct the planning and implementation of intervention delivery	HN6	Observation of special days as Universal Children day on November 20 Health education classes for all sectors and cadre Participative sessions IEC through trained health workers/educational leaders/priests One‐time event‐delivery of key messages during youth days, school days, sports days etc. Performance monitoring of public health cadre (including pay for performance) Counselling sessions Health screening Building capacity Professional experience [continuing education/Training of Trainers (TOT)] ANC/PNC services Advocating community needs
	Deworming: Periodic treatment with anthelminthic (deworming) medicines, without previous individual diagnosis to preschool‐ and school‐aged children living in endemic areas.	HN7
	Interventions for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDs: Intervention related to HIV and other STIs among adolescents, including testing, incidence and prevalence.	HN8	Prevention of mother‐to‐child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS, Paediatric HIV care, Nutritional Counselling, Free Integrated basic package of HIV care at all health facilities, Protection of human rights, Targeted interventions, HIV education and awareness, Condom social marketing program (CSMP) etc.
	Prevention and management of childhood malaria: Providing health and/or counselling services specific to childhood malaria in a community setting	HN9	Provision and promotion of use of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) for children Malarial prophylaxis in children
	Mass media campaigns on health education: Interventions employing mass media (for example, radio and television) to deliver health focused messages	HN10	Provide awareness on maternal and child health and increase demand of interventions
	mHealth interventions for child health: Interventions employing mHealth services or ICT approaches.	HN11	Examples include using particular websites such as Facebook SMS messages to provide health information. In some cases, the intervention itself is delivered on the internet.
	Maternal aid: Intervention that aim to provide subsidies that affect maternal and child health outcomes	HN12
	Mental health program: Interventions to improve mental health of mother and child outcome	HN13
Education (E): Support needed to acquire the skills being taught by the educational system and should address functional skills, academic, cognitive, behavioral, and social skills that directly affect the child's ability to access education
	School voucher/reduced fees: Programmes providing allowances to cover all or some of the costs associated with education, including school fees, uniforms and books.	E1
	Decentralization and local community participation: Interventions improving participation of community in effectively promoting education	E2	school‐based management community monitoring
	School feeding program and mid‐day meal	E3
	School based health interventions: School health and nutrition programs that help children complete their education and develop health knowledge and lifelong positive behaviors	E4	Micro‐nutrient supplementation programmes Physical education and examination School‐based deworming programmes Zero tolerance policy‐ Enforcement of code of practice for teacher behaviour skills‐based education, including life skills, that addresses health, nutrition HIV/AIDS education and prevention awareness hygiene issues including menstrual hygiene and that promotes positive behaviour Counselling for bullying and abuse
	Systemic renewal: Systemic Renewal is “about continuous, critical inquiry into current practices, identifying innovations that might improve education, removing organizational barriers to that improvement, and providing a system structure that supports change”	E5
	Alternative schooling/non‐formal education	E6
	School sanitation and WASH: Interventions to ensure child friendly water supply, toilet and hand washing facilities in the schools and promote behavioral change by hygiene education	E7
	Scholarship	E8
	Teacher Incentives: Seek to improve the working conditions in schools so that teachers are motivated to come to work and improve their performance	E9
	Teacher training: Interventions to improve the quality of instruction and offer more targeted tuition for children that are falling behind	E10
	Remedial education: Also known as developmental education, basic skills education, compensatory education, preparatory education, and academic upgrading is assigned to assist students in order to achieve expected competencies in core academic skills such as literacy and numeracy.	E11
	Pedagogical approach: Includes how the teacher interacts with students and the social and intellectual environment the teacher seeks to establish	E12
Social work and welfare (SW): development and provision of public or private social services to promote social justice amongst individuals and groups of individuals. While the term social welfare refers more generally to the well‐being of groups and individuals as well as the system of social service delivery, the term social work refers more specifically to the professional practice of delivering these social services.
	Birth registration	SW1
	Child‐trafficking preventions	SW2	Strengthening police and judicial systems child law enforcement Registration of high risk groups Stringent laws on donations to beggars Awareness campaign Ensuring universal primary and secondary education programs
	Intervention for Child abuse: These interventions deal with prevention of child abuse.	SW3	Home visitation programs for victims Reduction of unintended pregnancies (ANC/PNC services) Reducing alcohol availability in high‐risk population Women Empowerment and Gender‐mainstreaming Changing cultural and social norms on violence against women Translating the convention on the rights of the Child into national
	Gender based violence program	SW4
	Substance abuse prevention	SW5	Youth clubs School Based support groups Family support programs
	Child protection services: Child Protection Services deal with cases of abuse and severe neglect of children, and when a child seems to be suffering from, or is at risk of, significant harm	SW6	emergency protection of children who are suffering from actual/alleged child investigative assessment after receiving a referral long‐term follow‐up work with children and their families where abuse and/or neglect are verified formulate inter‐agency child protection guidelines and to work in liaison with the concerned agencies provide consultative services to agencies/organisations which come across cases of actual/suspected child abuse and/or neglect provide information and practical training to persons in contact with situations of child abuse and/or neglect. Re‐unification of families in conflict affected regions or refugees
Social Protection (SP) is defined as the set of policies and programs designed to reduce poverty and vulnerability by promoting efficient labor markets, diminishing people's exposure to risks, and enhancing their capacity to protect themselves against hazards and interruption/loss of income	Social insurance schemes: Microfinance, employability training, vocational training and savings programmes that aim to affect child welfare outcomes	SP1	Micro‐credit Microfinance Health financing
	Labor market interventions: Interventions covering work‐related injuries of employees, broadly affecting household income generation and child health	SP2	unemployment insurance, income support changes in labor legislation placement assistance job matching labor exchanges, Direct employment generation Training
	Social assistance interventions: Unconditional or conditional cash transfer programmes that aim to affect child welfare outcomes	SP3	Cash or In‐kind transfers such as food stamps and family allowances Voucher schemes User‐fee removal policy Temporary subsidies such as house subsidy in time of crisis
Environmental health including WASH (EH)	Improved sanitation and water	EH1
	Hygiene education	EH2
	Prevention of outdoor and indoor air pollution	EH3
	Prevention of environmental tobacco smoke	EH4
	Prevention of exposure to toxins such as lead, mercury and pesticides	EH5
	Safe places to play	EH6
	Traffic calming	EH7
Governance (G): “governance can be seen as the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country's affairs at all levels. It comprises the mechanisms, processes and institutions, through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations and mediate their differences.”	Child rights: it provides a set of principles and standards covering children's entitlements to such essentials as education, healthcare and the right to be heard, as well as protection from abuses such as unjust treatment and exploitation. It places an obligation on states to ensure that all children within their jurisdiction (including non‐citizens such as refugees) enjoy these rights	G1	Educating children on their rights Supporting community‐based legal and paralegal services for children Child rights Monitoring awareness of legal drafting committees on the importance of children's rights and the provisions of the UNCRC. Provide technical assistance and training to law enforcement officials, judges, parliamentarians and others concerned with implementations Advocate for legislative costing and appropriate resource allocation ensuring the availability of financial and other assistance for equitable access for children and families to judicial system Using available complaint mechanism of child right commissions in countries Support child‐led media initiatives building the capacity of media organisations on children's rights
	Legislative reforms: develop and adopt national legislation to implement child protection laws.	G2	family law juvenile justice laws about education against child labour laws to protect children from sexual exploitation Gender quality Non‐discrimination
	Child protection regulation: Measures that protect access to resources, promote employment, and support the childcare role.	G3	national budget allocation and expenditure for maternal and child services. Adopting national legislation for birth registration abolishing child and bonded labour enforcing minimum wage rates, providing paid maternity leave ensuring that health and safety standards are met. Inter‐agency collaboration in areas of conflicts to address child protection needs