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This webinar examined care in the context of COVID-19, climate change, and conflict. Speakers explored how the pandemic has left a lasting legacy on the care system in Uganda and examined the impacts of climate change-related drought on children's care in Kenya. They also explored efforts to deliver effective care for children during conflict in Ethiopia.
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted unprecedented reverse migration, forcing millions of migrants to return to their countries of origin. Due to loss of employment and income, fear of getting infected with COVID-19 or a desire to be with their families during the pandemic, many migrants - including youth migrants from East Africa who were living in the Gulf and who are the focus of this chapter - returned or were repatriated to their countries.
This chapter is part of the "Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19" and explores the gender and youth dimensions of return from GCC…
This case study tracks the impact of family support services to a Ugandan mother and her family during the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to prevent family separation.
This case study has been produced as part of the regional learning platform on care in Eastern and Southern Africa. The platform and its corresponding documentation were planned and conceptualized by UNICEF Eastern and Southern African Regional Office (ESARO) and Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC)
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Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, the world has experienced a series of waves and variants of the ever evolving and vaccine eluding COVID-19 virus. Initial responses predominantly focused on slowing the spread of the virus and included movement restrictions, intra-country and inter-country border closings, quarantine, isolation, social distancing, and mask wearing. Whilst these responses aimed to slow the spread of the virus, they also tended to overlook the prioritization of vulnerable populations such as children with disabilities, children in alternative care…
Key lessons learnt on how to carry out effective care reform in Eastern and Southern Africa from the COVID 19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a fundamental threat to the care of children in Eastern and Southern Africa. It exacerbated many causes of separation and violence in families and placed a huge strain on services that aim to improve children’s care. Responding to these challenges also led to rapid adaptation, innovation, and learning. In this paper, we document lessons learnt on care reform that emerged from the pandemic.
The paper is accompanied by…
This webinar hosted by the ESARO Regional Learning Platform, provides nine lessons learned on care reform from the COVID-19 pandemic with examples from Malawi, Uganda and Kenya.
This webinar provides nine lessons learnt on care reform from the COVID-19 pandemic with examples from Malawi, Uganda and Kenya.
This article explores the role resilience processes play in education and well-being outcomes for street-connected children. It draws on research and practice undertaken as part of the Building with Bamboo Programme (BwB) on resilience. BwB investigated the forms a resilience-based approach might usefully take in practice, the effect this has on promoting resilience in children, and how this resilience leads to improved outcomes in their lives.
This article draws specifically on the experiences of street-connected children who were involved in such approaches as part of programmes at S.A.L…
Through 2020 and 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic led to prolonged school closures in Uganda. These closures exacerbated sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against girls. Lockdowns isolated some girls in close proximity to perpetrators within homes and neighbourhoods, and left them unable to access help. Moreover, financial burdens have increased the pressure on girls to work in locations where the risk of SGBV is high. Cultural and social norms play their part, including through child marriage. Victim blaming and stigmatisation are ubiquitous, and perpetrators rarely face justice.
Why is…
यस अध्ययनले सातवटा केन्द्रित देशहरूमा २१ अर्ध-संरचित अन्तर्वार्ताहरू समावेश गरी गुणस्तरीय अनुसन्धान अध्ययन सञ्चालन गरेर निजी रूपमा सञ्चालित र वित्त पोषित आवासीय हेरचाह संस्थाहरूको सानो संख्यामा COVID-19 को प्रभावको अन्वेषण गर्दछ। अन्तर्वार्ताका सहभागीहरूले आवासीय हेरचाह संस्थाका संस्थापक, कोषकर्ता र निर्देशकहरू सामेल छन् र कोष, बालबालिकाको हेरचाह, कर्मचारी, स्वयंसेवकहरूको उपस्थिति, जनताको प्रभाव लगायत निजी रूपमा सञ्चालित आवासीय हेरचाह संस्थाहरूको सञ्चालनका धेरै पक्षहरूमा COVID-19 को प्रभाव प्रकट गर्दछ। स्वास्थ्य उपाय र निर्देशनहरू, बालबालिकाको पुन: एकीकरण र भविष्यका लागि योजनाहरू। यस अध्ययनका…