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This webpage from UNICEF features a list of resources for practitioners working with children during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes helpful guidance for front-line workers responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action were formulated between January 2011 and September 2012 by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), an inter-agency working group composed of child protection practitioners, other humanitarians, academics, and policy makers. Altogether, over 400 individuals from 30 agencies and 40 countries around the world contributed to the development of the standards. The standards set out a common agreement on what needs to be achieved in order for child protection in humanitarian settings to be of adequate quality.…
For the past two years, large parts of American society have decided harming children was an unavoidable side effect of Covid-19. And that was probably true in the spring of 2020, when nearly all of society shut down to slow the spread of a deadly and mysterious virus.
But the approach has been less defensible for the past year and a half, as we have learned more about both Covid and the extent of children’s suffering from pandemic restrictions.
This Learning Channel has been developed to highlight those Child Protection courses most closely aligned to different components of UNICEF’s Child Protection Strategy 2021-2030. This list of courses is meant to support the learning and capacity development of our Child Protection workforce, as well as that of our partners. This, in turn, should impact positively on the operationalization of the Child Protection Strategy.
Courses do not need to…
Facing our Post-COVID World with Resilience, Data and Effective Solutions in Child Protection
This 2-day summit will engage policy makers, researchers, academia and practitioners to identify evidence based solutions to effectively address the child protection challenges in the post COVID-19 era.
Dates: November 4 - 5
In this course, you’ll enhance your understanding of the heightened protection risks and vulnerabilities that children are facing around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.
You’ll learn how to adapt child protection case management and discover why it’s vital that child protection caseworkers and other service providers work in partnership to make sure there is a collective response to protecting a child.
The course will provide examples of promising practice and will stimulate the exchange of ideas and experience between learners around the world.
Register for the free, one-week…
COVID-19 is quickly changing the context in which children live. Prevention and control measures such as school closures (as announced or implemented in 100 countries) disrupt children’s routine and support structures. This can leave children vulnerable to child protection harms.
As a response, the Alliance is hosting a webinar to introduce our new Technical Note: Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Topics to be covered include:
- Technical note (what…