Position Paper- The Safety of Girls and Young Women During COVID-19

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Key Information

This WAGGGS Position Paper explores the specific risks and vulnerabilities that girls face, how public health crises can deepen gender inequalities and our call to action.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.wagggs.org/en/resources/position-paper-safety-girls-and-young-women-during-covid-19/

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

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Gender equality
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Community leaders, Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other community members - female, Sisters, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

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

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Mothers' clubs
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • Maternal and child health services
  • Mobile clinics (testing, vaccines, etc.)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors

Other

  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end FGM (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
  • System-wide review and reform

School-related gender-based violence

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

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Media campaigns
  • Work with community leaders

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved nutrition
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home