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Globally, during the COVID-19 pandemic there have been disruptions to initiatives, services, and programmes that promote and protect nurturing care for young children. While necessary to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, strategies such as complete or partial lockdown, physical distancing measures, and school and childcare closures, have made it increasingly difficult to reach children and caregivers. At the same time, the social and economic ramifications of the pandemic have put families in even greater need of parenting and family support. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many…
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…
UNICEF’s Office of Research is a dedicated independent research arm for UNICEF located in Florence, Italy. A large portion of the evaluation work done in the office focuses on Government supported cash transfer programs and their impacts on wellbeing of families, women and children. This webinar reviews some of the new and ongoing work conducted under the Transfer Project, a multi-organizational research and learning initiative, presented by Social Policy and Humanitarian specialists Amber Peterman, Tia Palermo and Jacob de Hoop. The first presentation will…
“The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance hosted its 3rd Annual Symposium on June 2nd, 2016. The event was held at the Birdsall House Conference Center in Washington, DC and also via live webcast. Just over 300 participants from 25 countries across NGOs, government, academia, donors and others joined the discussion in the room or online about ways of strengthening the social workforce to better support vulnerable families and children. The symposium enabled the exchange of information between members of the Alliance and other experts across countries and regions.”
The event was…
Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children, (SRSG on VAC), Marta Santos Pais, promoted a Cross-Regional Round Table on the prevention of violence in early childhood on June 30 and July 1 2014, hosted by the Government of Jamaica in co-operation with UNICEF. Representatives from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Council of the Baltic States, the Council of Europe, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the League of Arab States, MERCOSUR and the Latin-American and Caribbean Movement for Children (MMILAC)…
In November 2012, more than 130 policymakers, academics, practitioners and other experts committed to CP systems and coming from 50 countries met in New Delhi over four days for a major conference entitled “A Better Way to Protect ALL Children: The Theory and Practice of Child Protection Systems.” This conference was co-hosted by four organisations – UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children and World Vision. The report from the conference encapsulates the substantive content of the presentations and related discussion; provides an analysis and documents the journey;…
A virtual roundtable to call for change
Listen to what Children, Young People and CSOs have to say as experts
Family for Every Child is an alliance of 43 local civil society organisations in 37 countries. We work to ensure that more children grow up safe, protected in families, and provided quality alternative care when needed.
During and after the COVID pandemic, our alliance members have reported increased family violence affecting children. Some of these children have already experienced child abuse, including sexual abuse in families. In some contexts, children face…
Public Hearing: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Date: October 22
Time: 4:00 pm EDT
- Disability Rights International
- ASDOWN, Colombia
- Proyecto Paz y Dignidad, Mexico
This high-level Pan-African Conference forms part of key biennial events that APEVAC will organise to track and showcase Africa’s progress towards 2030. It also links to this year’s “Together to #ENDviolence” Solutions Summit Series under the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children. This high-level virtual Conference will be focusing specifically on three overriding themes: the current national capacity to address violence against children, the progress Africa has made thus far in addressing violence against children, and the home-grown initiatives that have been…
The COVID-19 Family Life Study is a research study that explores the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on family life across cultures. The results from this study will inform policies, programs, and supports for families
The COVID-19 Family Life Study is an international research study led by Dr. Anis Ben Brik, distinguished and acknowledged expert in Social Policy and Sustainable Development, LSE alumnus, now Associate Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Public Policy in Qatar explores the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on…