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Topic: COVID-19

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Have we all become dashboard junkies?

Have we all become dashboard junkies?

COVID-19 Data and Research

By Mark Hereward, Associate Director, Data & Analytics, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring

  As COVID-19 surged, the world has relied on dashboards to tell the story of the pandemic. Refreshing our screens with the click of a mouse, we saw the pandemic unfold on a world map and in dynamic demonstrations of data morphing into charts and graphs. Containing steady streams of timely information gauging testing rates, case… Read more →←
Building a Critical Mass: Digital engagement for the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation during COVID-19

Building a Critical Mass: Digital engagement for the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation during COVID-19

Adolescents Child Rights COVID-19

By Nankali Maksud, Stephanie Baric

As digital engagement was scaled up to mitigate girls’ risk of FGM and continue community-based initiatives during COVID-19, UNICEF organised a webinar with key actors to discuss their experiences of using digital tools to shift social norms and build girls’ agency. The blog below summarises the webinar. COVID-19 has presented… Read more →←
Safeguarding and sport for development during and after the pandemic

Safeguarding and sport for development during and after the pandemic

COVID-19

By Liz Twyford and Artur Borkowski

This blog is part three of a series highlighting innovative responses to COVID-19 from S4D organizations. UNICEF Innocenti is conducting research on S4D in collaboration with the UNICEF- FCB and Barça Foundation partnership.  The first blog in the series discussed innovative responses S4D organizations have taken  globally to adapt… Read more →←
From COVID-19 response to recovery: What role for universal child benefits?

From COVID-19 response to recovery: What role for universal child benefits?

Child Poverty COVID-19

By Francesca Bastagli, Ian Orton, and David Stewart

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than one billion children either lived in, or were vulnerable to, falling into extreme poverty. As children are twice as likely globally to live in poverty than adults, the economic fall-out of COVID-19 is expected to hit them particularly severely, and estimates indicate that an additional 117 million… Read more →←
How will COVID-19 disrupt child well-being in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia?

How will COVID-19 disrupt child well-being in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia?

COVID-19 Evidence to Policy Publication & data launches

By Alessandro Carraro and Victor Cebotari

  The story of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of vulnerability, in which those with pre-existing deprivations are likely to suffer most. While the full range of economic and social consequences of the crisis are yet to emerge, it will undoubtedly affect many children, by exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and their underling… Read more →←
Making sure the most vulnerable children are heard during COVID-19:  5 lessons on data collection from Somalia

Making sure the most vulnerable children are heard during COVID-19: 5 lessons on data collection from Somalia

Children and Migration COVID-19 Data and Research

By Mark Gill, Olivia Bueno, Lawrence Oduma

“Playing football was stopped, the school was closed, our parents refused to meet friends during coronavirus.” (boy, 14)             “My mother used to sell breakfast in front of the school, and when the school closed it affected our daily living.” (girl, 16) While COVID-19 has presented new risks and challenges for… Read more →←
How sport can help keep children engaged during COVID-19: Innovations by South African S4D organizations

How sport can help keep children engaged during COVID-19: Innovations by South African S4D organizations

COVID-19 Education

By Chiara Pasquini, Ayanda Ndlovu, Artur Borkowski

This blog is part two of a series highlighting innovative responses to COVID-19 from S4D organizations. UNICEF Innocenti is conducting research on S4D in collaboration with the UNICEF- FCB and Barça Foundation partnership.  The first blog  in the series discussed innovative responses S4D organizations have taken  globally to adapt to… Read more →←
COVID-19 and education: The digital gender divide among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa

COVID-19 and education: The digital gender divide among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa

COVID-19 Data and Research Education Gender

By Diogo Amaro, Lauren Pandolfelli, Ingrid Sanchez-Tapia, Matt Brossard

Many schools around the world remain closed or experience intermittent closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making remote learning essential to children’s education. Governments are using a range of methods to support remote learning, including paper-based “take home” learning packages, radio, television and online platforms. In… Read more →←
Protecting children from harm during COVID-19 needs evidence

Protecting children from harm during COVID-19 needs evidence

COVID-19 Evidence Methods & tools Research synthesis

By Shivit Bakrania, Sandy Oliver

Although much of the world is focused on the “silver lining” that COVID-19 does not appear to severely impact children’s health, UNICEF is raising the alarm about the potential damage of the hidden impacts on children’s health as well as the indirect socio-economic effects of the fallout from the pandemic. In response, UNICEF… Read more →←
COVID-19 may pose greater risk to children than originally thought

COVID-19 may pose greater risk to children than originally thought

COVID-19 Data and Research

By Priscilla Idele, David Anthony, Kaku Attah Damoah and Danzhen You

It is commonly accepted, at least for now, that children and adolescents (0-19 years) have been largely spared the direct epidemiological effects of the COVID-19 crisis on their own health and survival. This narrative is based predominantly on early data from the first affected countries of the virus, notably from China (Wuhan Province)… Read more →←
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