Recurso COVID-19 Response in Uganda: Keeping Children Learning and Safe While Schools are Closed At this critical time, it is vital that international governments and donors increase funding to enable children in Uganda to continue learning. The closure of 51,000 institutions to prevent COVID-19 has left 15 million children out of school and facing increased risk of violence, exploitation and abuse. Closing schools must not mean suspending learning.
Recurso COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response WASH and Infection Prevention and Control Measures in Schools This guidance note is for UNICEF staff to help them in their preparedness and response to the current COVID-19 global pandemic. It provides an overview of Infection Prevention and Control and its intersection with water, sanitation and hygiene and how staff can help prevent infection and its spread in schools, through human to human and by touching surfaces contaminated with the virus.
Noticias Seychelles and Malawi Endorse the Safe Schools Declaration: Over Half of African Union Member States Have Now Committed to Protect Education Seychelles and Malawi are the latest countries to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, an inter-governmental commitment to better protect students, teachers, schools, and universities during armed conflict, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) today.
Blog Providing Stability in a Time of Crisis What leaders can do help calm their community and keep students ready to learn?
Noticias How to plan distance learning solutions during temporary schools closures School closures in a growing number of countries to contain the spread of COVID-19 are disrupting the education of millions students across the globe. UNESCO is sharing 10 recommendations to ensure that learning remains uninterrupted during this period.
Noticias Nine children walking to school in Afghanistan are killed by landmine Nine children were killed when a landmine exploded as they walked to school in Afghanistan. It's the latest shocking incident in a country where more than 1,000 schools were shut down last year by the ongoing conflict.
Blog Measurement Library Launched for Researchers in Middle East and North Africa This blog discusses the challenges researchers face when working with students in crisis and conflict-affected contexts and show how the recently launched MENAT Measurement Library, a joint project by the IRC and NYU Global TIES for Children, supports evidence-based approaches in the field.
Recurso Roadmap for Safer and Resilient Schools The Roadmap for Safer and Resilient Schools is a step-by-step guide intended to provide support to governments of developing countries that are exposed to natural hazards. Specifically, it focuses on the design of intervention strategies and investment plans to make schools safer and resilient at scale. The guide also encompasses the recovery and reconstruction of school facilities affected by disasters.
Recurso A whole school approach to prevent school related gender-based violence: Minimum standards and monitoring framework Provides a framework to guide policymakers and practitioners in designing school violence prevention programmes and strengthening response actions. The prevention model is based on eight evidence-based standards and is accompanied by a monitoring approach with a set of proposed indicators for school, district and national levels.
Recurso بناء مدارس أكثر أمانا These videos are intended to strongly justify why the viewer should consider a community-based approach to school construction and why the viewer should insist on a safer school approach that considers hazards in the site plan, design, and construction of the school.
