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COVID-19 is currently wreaking havoc on countries around the world. The devastating health consequences of the virus are only the tip of the iceberg. The pandemic’s indirect impacts, such as loss of livelihoods, school closures and restrictions on travel and socialising have far-reaching effects on children and young people’s health, safety, education and well-being. During this period, many children and young people are spending more time at home, with family, and online. In this context, children and young people are at risk of witnessing and/or experiencing violence at…
More than 100 child participants across East Asia convened with government officials to discuss the increased instances of child violence experienced during COVID-19 at World Vision’s Asia Pacific Child Well-Being Learning Exchange forum on 18 November 2020. The virtual event, organised in partnership with UNICEF East Asia and Pacific, was introduced to bring together government, UN agencies, donors, civil society organisations, corporates, academia, subject matter experts and thought leaders in the development sector, to throw light on pressing issues facing the world’s most vulnerable…
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many families into difficulties. And it has increased the risk of children being lured or forced into different types of work that are hazardous for their health, wellbeing and development.
In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Hani Mansourian from the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action talks to Selim Benaissa, Chief Technical Officer from the ILO on the…
This document - written in English and Burmese - presents guidance on how to ensure continuity of child protection case management service provision during the COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar. It also includes recommendations for appropriate responses to cases associated with the disease.
This guidance - written in English and Burmese - has been designed to ensure the care of children affected by COVID-19 in Myanmar due to either the child or caregiver requiring medical care in the home, community or health facility. It seeks to:
- Guide all actors, especially health actors, in understanding key considerations when it comes to possible family separation
- Guide child protection actors on steps to consider if children or caregivers are at risk of being separated due to COVID-19.
This brief presents the key findings from the LEGACY Program Randomized Controlled Trial. The Legacy Maternal and Child Cash Transfer (MCCT) was funded by the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund from Jan 2016 to April 2019. The MCCT aimed to improve nutrition outcomes for mothers and children through the delivery of nutrition-sensitive cash transfers to pregnant women in Myanmar during the First 1,…
Executive Summary
In April 2016, Save the Children International (SCI) launched a maternal and child cash transfer program (MCCT), LEGACY (Learning, Evidence Generation, and Advocacy for Catalyzing Policy). The program was implemented in three townships across Myanmar’s central dry zone and is comprised of two interventions targeting pregnant women and mothers of young children:
1. A monthly cash transfer to mothers in their last two trimesters of pregnancy until the child turns two years old (“first 1000 days”); and
2. A monthly Social and Behavioral Change Communication (SBCC)…
This country care review highlights the care-related Concluding Observations from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This document summarises Save the Children's involvement in supporting the Government of Myanmar and other partners to test and roll out a "First 1000 days" Maternal and Child Grant Programme that has proven to prevent chronic malnutrition. It also explains what this means in terms of coverage of children and what nationwide coverage of such a scheme would mean.
This video highlights the work of JJ's Children's Home (funded by a US-based organization called Heaven's Family) in their journey with the support of SFAC and ACCIR's Kinnected program to transition from institutional care of children to family-based care, reintegrating children into their families or placing them in kinship and foster care. The video tells the story of one girl in the children's home, Sap, and the work done to reunify her with her aunt and uncle, support her in covering tuition costs, and provide her with a bicycle to get to school.