COVID-19 Resource Tracker
In April 2020, the Alliance COVID-19 Mapping Team began tracking resources and articles on some of the key CPMS Standards and topics around child protection and COVID-19. Almost two years later, this process has produced the Child Protection and COVID-19 Resource Tracker, which contains the final bank of resources collected. This mapping process has also underpinned the Evidence Synthesis Briefs series.
Featured Resources
Webinar | Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic
FINAL: The audio file can be found here. The summary of Q&As from the webinar is here and other CP-related resource hubs is listed here. UPDATE: We have uploaded the DRAFT and FINAL video recordings on the Alliance's YouTube channel. We have also uploaded a downloadable audio file on the Alliance's SoundCloud channel. ----- COVID-19 is quickly changing the context in which children live...
Technical Note Summary: Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic (v.1)
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (The Alliance) has provided guidance for child protection (CP) practitioners on how to effectively respond to CP risks and complications amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This summary outlines the Alliance's assessment of the additional risks COVID-19 may present for children and associated suggestions on how to integrate and adapt...
Guidance Note: Protection of children during infectious disease outbreaks
This Guidance Note aims to provide humanitarian child protection practitioners, particularly child protection advisors and program managers, with guidance on how to engage in responses to infectious disease outbreaks to ensure children’s protection needs are taken into account in preparedness for, and during responses to, the outbreaks. The Guidance Note draws upon lessons learned during...
Enfants dans l'adversité
Matériel sur l'adversité des enfants pendant le COVID-19, y compris les enfants placés dans des structures d'accueil alternatives, les enfants privés de liberté, les enfants séparés et non accompagnés de leur famille, les enfants affectés par le travail des enfants, les enfants réfugiés, déplacés à l'intérieur du pays ou ayant migré (de force).
Resources
Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 2: Transitioning to a Remote Adolescent Programme in Lebanon
Have you ever wondered what happens when child protection actors have zero face-to-face access to the children and families they support? Plan International Lebanon faced that exact problem in March 2020, when the government imposed a curfew and state of emergency across the country. Elissa Alhassrouny, a child protection specialist with Plan International Lebanon, tells Hani Mansourian how their...
Technical Note: COVID-19 and Child Labour
Worldwide, an estimated 152 million children are in child labour, almost half of them, 73 million, work in hazardous child labour. The global health crisis is leading to mass disruption with far-reaching consequences. Many children are out of school and economic pressures on families continue to grow. This could push millions of children into child labour and makes child labour an imminent concern...
COVID-19: Protecting Children from Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the Home
It is abundantly clear that risk factors for violence, abuse, and neglect are on the rise for children under containment. At the same time, some COVID-19 prevention measures have abruptly cut children off from positive and supportive relationships they rely on when in distress, including at school, in the extended family, and in the community. Children’s rights to safety and protection as outlined...
Webinar | Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care
You can access the webinar recording here. Please see below for the webinar powerpoints. - You are invited to a webinar on children and alternative care during the COVID-19 pandemic. When: Apr 24, 2020 9:00 a.m. EST / 3:00 p.m. CET / 04:00 p.m. Nairobi Evidence from previous infectious disease outbreaks indicate that existing child protection risks are exacerbated, and new ones emerge, as a result...
Webinar | COVID-19 and Children Deprived of their Liberty
To watch the webinar recording, click here. -- Following the release of the Technical Note on COVID-19 and Children Deprived of their Liberty , the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and UNICEF will be facilitating a webinar to discuss the guidance and some of the successes and challenges in protecting the rights of children in detention during the pandemic. There will be short...
Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care
Evidence from previous infectious disease outbreaks indicate that existing child protection risks are exacerbated, and new ones emerge, as a result of the epidemic as well as of the socioeconomic impacts of prevention and control measures. Some children are at increased risk in these circumstances, especially those without parental/family care, those at risk of separation from family, those in...
Technical Note: COVID-19 and Children Deprived of their Liberty
Experience from previous infectious disease outbreaks indicates that new child protection risks are likely to emerge from the direct effects of COVID-19 as well as from measures to prevent and control its spread. Moreover, existing child protection risks are likely to be exacerbated. Some groups of people are more vulnerable in these circumstances, including, as discussed in this note, children...
Information
Documents sur les effets de la COVID-19 sur l'éducation, y compris l'impact de la fermeture des écoles sur la protection et le bien-être des enfants.
Renforcer le système de protection de l'enfance
Matériel sur le renforcement du système de protection de l'enfance, y compris la gestion des cas et les lignes d'assistance (TBC), la santé mentale et le soutien psychosocial, l'assistance sociale, le renforcement de la famille et la protection de l'enfance au niveau communautaire.
Resources
Technical Note: Adaptation of Child Protection Case Management to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Version 3
Child Protection Case Management (CP CM) is part of the essential services that cannot be stopped suddenly, but which requires adaptation to the new emergency. This technical note builds on existing response action from several countries and case management task force agencies. It provides considerations for adapting CP CM interventions to the COVID-19 pandemic and to better understand the...
Technical Note: Adaptation of Child Protection Case Management to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Version 3
Child Protection Case Management (CP CM) is part of the essential services that cannot be stopped suddenly, but which requires adaptation to the new emergency. This technical note builds on existing response action from several countries and case management task force agencies. It provides considerations for adapting CP CM interventions to the COVID-19 pandemic and to better understand the...
Technical Note: Child Helplines and the Protection of Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic
As a response to the COVID-19 crisis, child protection actors and service providers are exploring how they can continue to provide support to children, families and communities remotely through the use of technology. This includes child helplines, which, over the last decade, have become increasingly important in responding to concerns raised by children and young people on a range of issues...
Webinar | Working with communities to keep children safe in times of COVID-19
Infectious diseases like COVID-19 can disrupt the protective environments in which children grow and develop. Disruptions to families, friendships, daily routines and the wider community can have negative consequences for children’s well-being, development and protection. COVID-19 also has a direct impact on the ability of child protection actors to engage with communities, as well as on the...
Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 2: Transitioning to a Remote Adolescent Programme in Lebanon
Have you ever wondered what happens when child protection actors have zero face-to-face access to the children and families they support? Plan International Lebanon faced that exact problem in March 2020, when the government imposed a curfew and state of emergency across the country. Elissa Alhassrouny, a child protection specialist with Plan International Lebanon, tells Hani Mansourian how their...
Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 1: Prioritising MHPSS and CP Workers during COVID-19
This podcast is for all child protection actors everywhere. Wherever you are, hit the Play button now! Dr Zeinab Hijazi, the mental health and psychosocial support expert from UNICEF talks to Hani Mansourian, the Alliance's Co-coordinator about the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. They discuss how child protection workers worldwide are dealing with...
Working with Communities to Keep Children Safe, v.1.1
Infectious diseases like COVID-19 can disrupt the protective environments in which children grow and develop. Disruptions to families, friendships, daily routines and the wider community can have negative consequences for children’s well-being, development and protection. COVID-19 also has a direct impact on the ability of child protection actors to engage with communities, as well as on the...
Social Service Workforce Safety and Wellness during the COVID-19 Response: Recommended Actions
A well-supported, appropriately equipped, empowered, and protected social service workforce is essential to mitigating the damaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social service workers can build on their existing strong ties to children, families, and communities to rapidly respond in ways that are effective. However, to do so, they must stay safe and healthy. This document is intended to...
Plaidoyer
Matériel de plaidoyer pour donner la priorité à la protection des enfants pendant la COVID-19.
Resources
AN OPEN LETTER | COVID-19 AND THE IMPACT OF PANDEMIC RESPONSE PLANS THREATEN IMMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM RISKS TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND CHILD PROTECTION
International civil society organizations and child-focused agencies are calling on national governments and multilateral institutions to immediately strengthen child protection in COVID-19 response frameworks and to provide sufficient donor support to implement these responses effectively. The pandemic creates profound risks to children’s well-being and healthy development. Children particularly...
Advocacy Messages for Child Protection Actors: Prioritizing Child Protection in COVID-19 Response Plans
Emergency responses to COVID-19 are intended to speed containment of the virus but can have devastating consequences for children if they ignore unique risks to their safety and fail to include specific child protection provisions. Protecting children from violence and exploitation can be life-saving during a humanitarian crisis like COVID-19, and governments should prioritize it as such...
Matériel de formation et de développement professionnel
Matériel pour former les professionnels de la PEAH à intervenir en temps de COVID-19.9
Resources
Webinar | Case Management during COVID-19: One Year On
Register via this Zoom link. More than a year has passed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the Alliance L&D Working Group and the Case Management Task Force invites a webinar on case management adaptations during COVID-19 crisis. Join us to reflect together with a panel of case management practitioners on how we have progressively adapted to the COVID-19 context. What worked...
Webinar | Life Skills Adaptations during COVID-19
Register via this Zoom link. The L&D Working Group of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action invites you to join a webinar on Life Skills Adaptations during COVID-19. This Webinar will present two country-level adaptations and one online adaptation of life skills training during the COVID-19 pandemic. Life skills programming remains a critical element of child protection work in...
Webinar | Integrating Child Protection and Education in Emergencies Programming during COVID-19
Register via this Zoom link. The Alliance L&D Working Group the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) invite you to join a webinar on collaboration between Child Protection and Education in Emergencies actors during COVID-19. This webinar will present new research from the Alliance and INEE on integrated CP-EiE programming and country-level experiences. The presentations will...
Webinar | Innovative Approaches to Awareness Raising during COVID-19
Register via this Zoom link. The Alliance L&D Working Group invites you to join this webinar on Innovative Approaches to Awareness Raising during COVID-19. This webinar is the first in a series of L&D Webinars to continue to support the protection of children during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will hold this webinar series every Thursday until July! We look forward to your participation!
Case Studies | COVID-19 Capacity Building Adaptation
This collection of case studies, collected by the Alliance L&D Working Group, identifies promising practices and innovative ways to provide remote skills-building opportunities in the context of COVID-19. The examples highlight how child protection practitioners have adjusted traditional approaches to training to meet the capacity building needs of frontline workers, youth and caregivers within...
MOOC | Protection Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adapting Child Protection Programming
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action This course is available in English and Spanish. Click to register. This is the second edition of our massive-open online course Child Protection Programs Adaptations in the Context of COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases Outbtreaks. The course is available on demand from April 12, 2021. The course is focused on the implications of COVID...