Averting a lost COVID generation

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

I Inactive

Key Information

COVID‑19 is a children’s crisis. In the early months of the pandemic, children constituted a low proportion of the population infected. However, as the virus has spread, the number of children and young people who become infected and develop COVID‑19 is also increasing and requires specific actions.

While our understanding of the impact of COVID‑19 on children through science, data and research is evolving rapidly, UNICEF offers insights as the pandemic approaches its first anniversary. UNICEF is calling for A Six-Point Plan to Protect our Children, a list of urgent actions to mitigate the worst effects of the pandemic and a practical recovery plan to safeguard child rights now and to reimagine a better future.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.eccnetwork.net/resources/averting-lost-covid-generation

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Digital literacy
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Food/water security
  • Nutrition
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

0 - 25

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • N/A

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (digital)

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom

Water and sanitation

  • Improved water access

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other
  • Improved nutrition
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced violence against children in the home