Gabriela Buccini (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the first author of a newly published article, in the Maternal and Child Nutrition journal. The Nurturing Care Framework calls for establishing a global monitoring and accountability system for early childhood development. Major gaps to build low‐cost and large‐scale early childhood development monitoring systems at the local level remain. In this manuscript, we describe the process of selecting nurturing care indicators at the municipal level from existing routine information systems to develop the Brazilian Early Childhood Friendly Index (IMAPI). IMAPI represents the first attempt to select nurturing care indicators at the municipal level using data from existing routine information systems.
