Adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings

Advocacy and key messages

By Plan InternationalThe COVID-19 outbreak will deeply affect the environment in which children and young people grow and develop, from the earliest years...

By CareThe paper explores a range of potential implications including: disruption to development and humanitarian programmes that support women and girls;...

By UnicefMigrant, refugee, returnee and internally displaced children not only experience the direct and immediate impacts of COVID-19 and its socioeconomic...

A mother holding her daughter on her hip, in Zambia

By UnicefThis document highlights issues relating to prevention and response programming for Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups (CAAFAG)...

This Policy brief provides governments and stakeholders with practical guidance for an improved understanding of safe and inclusive access to services...

By IAWGThe Toolkit’s vision is for all adolescents to exercise making informed and autonomous decisions about their sexual and reproductive health...

By Compact for Young People in Humanitarian ActionThe Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action is committed to mitigating and responding to this...

Covid-19 has further strained the exhausted food systems in those countries and exacerbated poverty, food shortage and insecurity. This document highlights...

A mother and child at an internally displaced camp in the outskirts of Hargeisa city

By Jayathma WickramanayakeFor many of us, these past months of quarantine have been very difficult. The stress and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...

By FAOThere are 476 million indigenous peoples around the world, constituting 6.2 percent of the global population and, according to different sources,...

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Guidance resources

By UN Sustainable Development GroupChildren are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims. While they have thankfully...

This policy brief focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on women, including economic impacts, health impacts, unpaid care work, gender-based violence and impact...

Q&As

Young woman wearing face mask standing by coworker while working at office

By UNFPAUNFPA addressed various questions regarding COVID-19 including a question on how the pandemic will affect low-income countries and those affected...

Contextualized resources

By Save the ChildrenThe Sahel Region currently faces an unprecedented crisis as escalating violence, rising levels of food insecurity, continued displacement,...

By UNFPAThe COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions has further aggravated women and young girls' lack of access to sanitation and hygiene products in conflict...

Smiling young woman showing mobile phone to male friends while standing in balcony during party

By UNESCWAThe COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inequalities that Arab youth experience, especially those living in low-income, and conflict affected...

A child looks out at the camera during a UNICEF team visit to Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul

By UnicefThis news story highlights the exacerbated vulnerability of the internally displaced children and youth during the pandemic in terms of access...

By Save the ChildrenThis document outlines the consequences the pandemic had on children and youth's lives and aims at highlighting the key ways that governments...

By UNICEFThis document describes the impact that COVID-19 has had on many children in the MENA region and highlights key strategies that UNICEF will take...

By UnicefThe Red Cross Society youth volunteers are reaching remote communities in Micronesia to spread awareness on prevention and hygiene practices such...

By UnicefYoung entrepreneurs in Madagascar are contributing to their communities through initiatives to compensate the limited availability of hygiene...

By UnicefThe youth and adolescents of the UNICEF-supported youth center in As-Sweida in Syria, are roaming the streets of the city sanitizing the public...

By UnicefThe UNICEF-supported center for youth and adolescents in Jaramana, Damascus offers youth life skills workshops and vocational trainings. The COVID-19...

radio dj uganda

By UnicefAs a national lockdown was enforced in Uganda, The Straight Talk Foundation, has shifted its awareness program to the radio, where junior journalists...

Girls lining up to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Nigerai

By UnicefThe government of Nigeria and UNICEF initiated the COVID-19 innovation challenge, a platform that provides awareness to youth and adolescents...

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