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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 →←
How are sport for development organizations keeping children healthy during COVID-19?

How are sport for development organizations keeping children healthy during COVID-19?

COVID-19 Evidence to Policy

By Artur Borkowski, Chiara Pasquini, Andaleeb Alam, Karen Avanesyan, Thomas Dreesen and Bassem Nasir

This blog explores how Sport for Development (S4D) organisations have responded and adapted their programming to support children during the COVID-19 crisis. S4D organisations use sport as a tool to catalyse positive change in the lives of children, youth and the communities they live in. Interviews with S4D organizations, conducted as… Read more →←
Lessons from COVID-19: Getting remote learning right 

Lessons from COVID-19: Getting remote learning right 

COVID-19 Evidence to Policy

By Thomas Dreesen, Mathieu Brossard, Spogmai Akseer, Akito Kamei, Javier Santiago Ortiz, Pragya Dewan, Juan-Pablo Giraldo, Suguru Mizunoya

This blogpost summarizes recommendations for policy makers and explores 3 good practices for equitable remote learning, based on recent research conducted using data on education responses to COVID-19 from UNICEF staff in 127 countries. To help contain the spread COVID-19, schools have closed around the world, at its… Read more →←
Cinco estratégias que os governos estão utilizando para responder à violência contra mulheres e crianças durante a COVID-19

Cinco estratégias que os governos estão utilizando para responder à violência contra mulheres e crianças durante a COVID-19

COVID-19 Evidence Evidence to Policy Violence Against Children

By UNICEF Innocenti, Alessandra Guedes, Amber Peterman, Dina Deligiorgis

Embora o mundo tenha sido pego de surpresa pelo tamanho e pelas ramificações da crise da COVID-19, ele deveria estar preparado para responder aos riscos crescentes ao bem-estar e à segurança de mulheres e crianças. A violência contra as mulheres e a violência contra as crianças são disseminadas globalmente e intrinsicamente… Read more →←
Five ways governments are responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19

Five ways governments are responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19

Evidence to Policy Violence Against Children

By Alessandra Guedes, Amber Peterman, Dina Deligiorgis

While the world may have been caught off guard by the size and ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis, it should be prepared to respond to the increased risks to the wellbeing and safety of children and women. Violence against children and violence against women are widespread globally and intrinsically linked, sharing common risk factors… Read more →←
Educating the hardest to reach:  Lessons from non-formal education in Nepal

Educating the hardest to reach: Lessons from non-formal education in Nepal

Data and Research Evidence to Policy

By Robert Jenkins and Priscilla Idele

A total of 835,401 children and adolescents were out of school in Nepal in 2017, equivalent to 11.3 per cent of the primary and secondary school aged population (UNESCO – UIS, 2020). This rate varies across the country and population, as barriers related to poverty, social exclusion linked to caste and ethnicity, disability, social… Read more →←
Reducing poverty while achieving gender equality: the potential of social protection

Reducing poverty while achieving gender equality: the potential of social protection

Evidence to Policy Gender

By Ramya Subrahmanian and Dominic Richardson

The UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti has launched a new four-year research programme called Gender-Responsive and Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP), funded by the United Kingdom’s Department of International Development (DFID), and other partners. The research programme will examine how gender-responsive and age-sensitive… Read more →←
Child mental health emerging from the shadows

Child mental health emerging from the shadows

Evidence to Policy Mental health

By Sarah Crowe

With suicide and self-harm now leading causes of death and injury among young people between 15 to 19 years, UNICEF and WHO are coming together for the first time at the Leading Minds for children conference to tackle the growing scale of mental health disorders among children and young people. On World Mental Health Day (10 October)… Read more →←
Responding to Screen Time Concerns: A Children’s Rights Approach

Responding to Screen Time Concerns: A Children’s Rights Approach

Evidence to Policy

By Daniel Kardefelt-Winther

Over the past decade there has been escalating concern that the time children spend using digital technology might be harmful. Calls have been made to protect children by restricting the amount of time they spend in front of digital screens. But recently there has been a change in tune, following research showing that the effects of… Read more →←
Do countries have fiscal space for universal child grants?

Do countries have fiscal space for universal child grants?

Evidence to Policy

By Frank Otchere

It is a known fact that in nearly every country, children are more likely to live in (monetary) poverty than adults (19% versus 9% respectively in 2018). This has immediate effects on the well-being of children, their development prospects and consequently their adult life. Cash transfer programs targeted at the poorest households have… Read more →←
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