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This Child Protection learning brief, the second in a series, has been prepared for UNICEF country offices and practitioners as they respond to mental health and psychosocial impact during the pandemic. The real-time emergent learning brief draws on evidence from current country experiences and identifies emerging mental health risks; highlights programme responses and adaptations; and outlines key…
Family for Every Child, as part of its How We Care initiative, has developed a series on Psychosocial support for children and families during COVID-19, which highlights different approaches taken by three of its member organizations to providing essential psychosocial support to…
Family for Every Child, as part of its How We Care initiative, has developed a series on Psychosocial support for children and families during COVID-19, which highlights different approaches taken by three of its member organizations to providing essential psychosocial support to…
Family for Every Child, as part of its How We Care initiative, has developed a series on Psychosocial support for children and families during COVID-19, which highlights different approaches taken by three of its member organizations to providing essential psychosocial support to…
COVID-19, also known as coronavirus disease 2019, emerged in China In December 2019. Over the months that followed, cases of the virus were reported in most countries around the world. The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic in early March 2020.
The pandemic is having a significant impact on Family for Every Child Members and the children and families that they work with. The virus doesn't discriminate, but the impact of the illness is unequal, with far greater socio-economic and health consequences for poor and marginalised communities.
This…
Prepared over a period of one year from September 2015 to September 2016, UNICEF, in partnership with relevant agencies and governments, presents feedback and lessons learned from the Child Protection Programme during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic response in West Africa from August 2014 to December 2015.
The report examines three affected countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea – to analyse the degree to which the response was successful in addressing the scale and unique nature of the child protection situation that arose due to the epidemic. Key lessons learned and…
Introducción
El 27 de febrero de 2010 un fuerte terremoto, con una intensidad de 8,8 grados en la escala de Richter, sacudió más de 630 km del territorio de Chile, afectando a cinco regiones del país, desde La Araucanía hasta Valparaíso, en las que se concentra el 75 % de la población. Con posterioridad al sismo se originó un maremoto, en una amplia extensión del borde costero, que arrasó con muchas construcciones emplazadas a orillas del mar.
El terremoto y tsunami produjeron importantes impactos: pérdida de vidas humanas, daños estructurales, problemas de conectividad y en el…