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Data and Research Parenting

The power of play in the pandemic

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Parental Leave Limbo: Childcare Challenges and the Potential for Policy Progress

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Global education calls for effective leadership and coordination now more than ever

Global education calls for effective leadership and coordination now more than ever

Experts speak

By Robert Jenkins, Saadhna Panday-Soobrayan, Nicolas Reuge, Linda Jones

There are at least five immediate and devastating consequences of COVID-19 on education that require collective action: Firstly, we have seen progress on out-of-school children reverse, while the pre-existing global learning crisis is at risk of becoming a catastrophe. Meanwhile, vulnerable children, especially girls are quickly losing… Read more →←
A mother with her swaddle newborn baby
Early moments matter in co-parenting: A letter from a new mother to her son

Early moments matter in co-parenting: A letter from a new mother to her son

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By Soledad Herrero

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Dear Leo, It has been six months since you came into this world like a whirlwind, turning your dad and me into confused-but-never-been-happier parents. We were warned many times about how life would change after your arrival, but it wasn’t until that magical moment when we held you for the first time, that we could fully comprehend… Read more →←
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Time to care – supporting parents and families through family-friendly policies

Time to care – supporting parents and families through family-friendly policies

Big picture

By Carolina Aulicino

When the COVID-19 virus began spreading in the spring of 2020, it hit Jessica Yanina Aveldano, a 30-year-old single mother in Argentina, especially hard. “I have multiple jobs because with one, the income isn’t enough,” Aveldano explained.  “On weekends I have to do a double shift at a bakery and my children have to come with me… Read more →←
A young woman and her sister browse their tablet in Zaatari Camp in Jordan in 2021.
Collectively projecting an equitable, diverse, inclusive digital and innovation revolution

Collectively projecting an equitable, diverse, inclusive digital and innovation revolution

Experts speak

By Fayaz King

Five years. That’s 1,825 sunrises, 43,800 hours and 2.6 million minutes to progress towards changing the face and reach of technology and innovation. The clock starts ticking at the Generation Equality Forum this week. Heads of State, corporate and philanthropic CEOs, civil society leaders and youth activists will convene to make… Read more →←
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Giving children a voice against violence – the role of faith actors

Giving children a voice against violence – the role of faith actors

Impact

By JLI EVAC Learning Hub

When Deaconess Juliet Eneh spoke at the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities’ (JLI) recent series on child participation, her message was clear: when children have a voice, violence against children goes down.  It was this reasoning that led her to help establish Christ Care. This mentoring program educates… Read more →←
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Where are the girls and why it matters as schools reopen?

Where are the girls and why it matters as schools reopen?

Data and research

By Wongani Grace Taulo, Omar Robles

“Where are the girls?” It’s a question that is asked too much when stepping into classrooms around the world. And the further up the school years we go, the more the question bounces around an echo chamber. Massive strides have been made in girls’ education. Between 1995 and 2018, 180 million more girls enrolled in primary and… Read more →←
On a street in Nigeria, two health workers provide an oral polio vaccine to a child.
Vaccinating the world against a virus: What it will take

Vaccinating the world against a virus: What it will take

Experts speak

By Meghan Doetschman, Stephanie Jacquier

We are living through an unprecedented moment in time. With COVID-19 vaccine procurement and delivery underway, we are in the midst of a global health effort unlike what many of us have seen. But in some ways, we have been here before – with polio. In the early part of the twentieth century, few diseases affected children and… Read more →←
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Eliminating a silent killer — maternal and neonatal tetanus

Eliminating a silent killer — maternal and neonatal tetanus

Impact

By Dr. Azhar Abid Raza

In March 2018, I visited Narok County in south-west Kenya. I was there as part of a WHO team to monitor and validate that maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) had been eliminated. As part of this work, I visited a home in a remote village. The house was perched on top of a hill and when we made it to the top, I met a mother who had… Read more →←
A man in PPE stands among children in a slum in Mumbai India.
Together, we shall overcome

Together, we shall overcome

Insider

By Jessinda Mathew

Day after day our screens are filled with harrowing images of hospitals overrun, lines of people waiting desperately for a hospital bed or oxygen for a loved one. As the number of cases keeps climbing, the threat inches ever closer to home, family members, colleagues, friends, and neighbours. I feel so helpless right now. Helpless at my… Read more →←
A covid-19 patient hooked up to an oxygen tank
12 months on, the eerily familiar sounds of the pandemic

12 months on, the eerily familiar sounds of the pandemic

Insider

By Sonia Sarkar

March 2020. India had recently completed a massive vaccination campaign of more than 300 million children against measles and rubella – two potentially life-threatening diseases. I was posted to New York for a health communications assignment which involved sharing my experiences from the public health communication drive that had… Read more →←
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