With the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) across Myanmar, many children and caregivers are required to stay in quarantine centres, in isolation and in hospitals, and special attention is needed to ensure children’s rights are protected in these settings. Violence, exploitation, abuse and negle...ct still occurs despite COVID-19 and continuity of the child protection case management system is essential to protect all children, including the most vulnerable. UNICEF’s Child Protection support focuses on mitigating the secondary impacts of physical distancing measures by ensuring children, parents and caregivers continue to have access to child protection services.
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Lo que madres, padres y educadores deben saber: cómo proteger a hijas, hijos y alumnos
Es muy importante que en situaciones como la que atraviesa el mundo con la pandemia por el COVID-19, busques información veraz y evites compartir datos que no están confirmados.
En esta guía, además encont...rarás sugerencias sobre cómo explicar la pandemia a niñas y niños pequeños y algunas formas para proteger sus emociones.
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Guía para hablar sobre el Coronavirus de manera sencilla, clara y tranquilizadora
Este documento tiene el propósito de ser ampliamente difundido entre las comunidades, familias, trabajadores del ámbito de la salud y la educación, así como todos los adultos responsables de niños y niñas pequ...eños.
Pretende servir como una guía para hablar sobre el Coronavirus, COVID-19, de manera sencilla, clara y tranquilizadora, a la vez que permite abordar las emociones que puedan estar sintiendo los niños y niñas en la primera infancia.
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Ideas prácticas para adolescentes
Ser adolescente tiene sus retos en cualquier circunstancia, pero la situación del COVID-19, presenta desafíos adicionales y es normal no saber cómo afrontarlos. Debido al cierre de las escuelas y a la cancelación de eventos, muchos y muchas adolescentes se es...tán perdiendo momentos que pueden ser importantes en su juventud, además de experiencias cotidianas básicas como conversar con los amigos y participar en clases.
Para la gran mayoría, y en todas las edades, hay algunas cosas que nos molestan, como por ejemplo, obligarnos a no salir de casa. Solo la convicción de que estamos haciendo algo realmente importante para cuidarnos, hace que el no poder salir a la calle tenga sentido. Es por ello por lo que queremos proponerte, a ti adolescente que estás en casa, una serie de ideas que te ayudarán a comprender mejor lo que te está pasando. Te compartimos también algunos recursos con los que puedes contar para cuidarte y cuidar a otros cerca de ti. Y recuerda, que lo que te pasa a ti también le pasa a muchos otros adolescentes.
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La pandemia por COVID-19 tiene impactos a corto, mediano y largo plazo en la niñez; uno de ellos es exponerlos a un posible aumento de violencia, abuso y explotación. El presente documento tiene como objetivo proponer al Gobierno de México, a través de la Secretaría de Gobernación, una serie d...e medidas para disminuir la violencia contra niñas, niños y adolescentes y protegerlos oportunamente en la coyuntura de la pandemia por COVID-19, así como a mediano y largo plazos.
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The pandemic presents tough choices for governments, local communities, health and school systems, as well as families and businesses: How to re-open safely? How to safeguard people’s lives and protect their livelihoods? Where to allocate scarce resources? How to protect those unable to protect th...emselves? Answers to questions like these will affect our short-term success in battling the spread of the virus and could have impacts for generations to come.
More than ever, the world needs reliable and trustworthy data and statistics to inform these important decisions. The United Nations and all member organizations of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) collect and make available a wealth of information for assessing the multifaceted impacts of the pandemic. This report updates some of the global and regional trends presented in Volume I and offers a snapshot of how COVID-19 continues to affect the world today across multiple domains.
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The package provides practical, concise yet crucial information about the impact of COVID-19 on daily teaching practices as well as tips and suggestions to improve safety, well-being and learning, with students in face-to-face or remote settings.
The package speaks directly to the teachers. It ca...n be adapted to their context and can be completed at the teachers’ own pace. It includes quizzes and a self-evaluation and planning tool to help teachers reflect on what they learned and what they still need to learn, encouraging them to keep learning!
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The package provides practical, concise yet crucial information about the impact of COVID-19 on daily teaching practices as well as tips and suggestions to improve safety, well-being and learning, with students in face-to-face or remote settings.
The package speaks directly to the teachers. It ca...n be adapted to their context and can be completed at the teachers’ own pace. It includes quizzes and a self-evaluation and planning tool to help teachers reflect on what they learned and what they still need to learn, encouraging them to keep learning!
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Prêt au retour: dossier de formation à la préparation des enseignants vous guidera à travers une réflexion sur l’impact du COVID-19 sur les pratiques pédagogiques quotidiennes et vous fournira des conseils et des suggestions que vous pourrez appliquer en classe. Les informations fournies ici... ne sont qu’une première introduction ; nous espérons que vous les trouverez instructives et utiles, que vous explorerez les sujets plus en profondeur, que vous en discuterez avec vos collègues et que vous utiliserez les ressources disponibles qui vous permettront de changer durablement la vie de vos élèves.
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The report finds that, as of 3 November, in 87 countries with age-disaggregated data, children and adolescents under 20 years of age accounted for 1 in 9 of COVID-19 infections, or 11 per cent of the 25.7 million infections reported by these countries. More reliable, age-disaggregated data on infect...ion, deaths and testing is needed to better understand how the crisis impacts the most vulnerable children and guide the response
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More than 8 million children have access to distance learning thanks to partnerships with 322 radio stations and 23 TV channels
1.2 million community masks distributed
25 million people reached with key messages on how to prevent COVID-19 through mass media channels (300 radio stations and... 50 TV channels)
64,283 calls managed by the COVID-19 Hotline
71,532 people (including 21,415 children) affected by COVID-19 and 6,005 frontline workers provided with psychosocial support since the beginning of the epidemic
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An interactive tool for partners, manufacturers, and countries to follow the developments of the COVID-19 vaccine market with up-to-date information.
As the designated COVAX procurement coordinator and procurement agent, UNICEF has launched the COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard – an interactive ...tool for countries, partners and industry to follow the developments of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 vaccine market and the efforts of the COVAX Facility to ensure fair and equitable access for every country in the world.
In this first release, the dashboard provides a regularly updated overview of the global research and development pipeline, the projected production capacity, publicly announced bilateral and multilateral supply agreements, as well as reported price points.
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It estimates that there have been 228,000 additional deaths of children under five in these six countries [Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka] due to crucial services, ranging from nutrition benefits to immunisation, being halted.
It says the number of children being tr...eated for severe malnutrition fell by more than 80% in Bangladesh and Nepal, and immunisation among children dropped by 35% and 65% in India and Pakistan respectively...
It also estimates that there have been some 3.5 million additional unwanted pregnancies, including 400,000 among teenagers, due to poor or no access to contraception...
The interruption to health services also affected those suffering from other diseases - the report predicts an additional 5,943 deaths across the region among adolescents who couldn't get treated for tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid and HIV/Aids.
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Rotafolio para el Agente Comunitario
y las Familias durante las visitas domiciliarias
Un documento realizado para ser ampliamente difundido entre las comunidades, familias, trabajadores del ámbito de la salud y la educación, así como todos los adultos responsables de niños y niñas pequeños.
Pretende servir como una guía para hablar sobre el Coronavirus de manera sencilla, cla...ra y tranquilizadora, a la vez que permite abordar las emociones que puedan estar sintiendo los niños y niñas en la primera infancia.
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