Child protection during COVID-19

• Addressing violence against children, women and older people during the COVID-19 pandemic: Key actions
  Produced by: WHO
  This brief compile key actions that the health sector can undertake within a multisectoral response to prevent or mitigate interpersonal violence based on existing WHO guidance.
• Protecting the most vulnerable children from the impact of coronavirus: An agenda for action
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Call to action to protect vulnerable children from the impacts of COVID-19 and includes information on protecting children against violence.
• COVID-19 causes disruptions to child protection services in more than 100 countries, UNICEF survey finds
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Violence prevention and protection services for children have been disrupted by COVID-19. As countries prioritized the response to COVID-19, many discontinued or suspended child protection services.
• How to keep your child safe online while stuck at home during the COVID-19 outbreak
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Various lockdown procedures and regulations during COVID-19 have led children to stay at home and spend more time online. This document provides recommendations to balance the harms and benefits of the internet while children uses it.
• Child protection and COVID-19
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This brief provides key information on child protection and COVID-19, and highlights challenges that may be faced or may be exacerbated by the pandemic.
• Advocacy Messages for Child Protection Actors: Prioritizing Child Protection in COVID-19 Response Plans
  Produced by: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
  Protecting children during a crisis can be lifesaving for many children that experience violence, abuse or neglect. Governments need to prioritize child protection during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Advocacy Brief | Prioritizing the Safety of Children Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Produced by: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
  This document calls on national governments, supported by multilateral institutions, to develop and implement online safety programs to protect children online during COVID-19.
• COVID-19 response measures and violence against children
  Produced by: WHO
  This editorial highlights information relating to violence against children during COVID-19 and stresses the need for multisectoral approaches to prevent and address violence against children.
• As COVID-19 pandemic continues, forcibly displaced children need more support than ever
  Produced by: UNHCR
  The COVID-19 has put displaced children at increased risk for negative consequences. UNICEF and UNHCR are jointly working together to expand refugee children’s access to protection, education, water and sanitation services.
• Millions more cases of violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation, unintended pregnancy expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: UNFPA
  COVID-19 pandemic has increase gender-based violence cases and increased the risk for child marriage, female genital mutilation, unintended pregnancy.
• First Person: Ending violence against women - ‘men and boys — I am talking to you’, says UN Deputy Chief
  Message from: Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General
  In this personal message, Ms. Mohammed calls on all people, especially men and boys, to stop violence against women and to support women and girls especially during the pandemic.
• Gender and COVID-19: Advocacy Brief
  Produced by: WHO
  WHO calls on its Member States and all global actors to guide investments in quality and gender-sensitive research on the adverse health, social and economic impacts of COVID-19.
• How to talk to your child about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): 8 tips to help comfort and protect children.
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Children might feel overwhelmed or anxious with the information they are hearing on TV or other people. This document provides tips to support and protect children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and Its Implications for Protecting Children Online
  Produced by: UNICEF and partners
  This technical note sets out some of the key priorities and recommendations on how to mitigate those risks and promote positive online experiences for children.
• COVID-19 and Child Labour: A time of crisis, a time to act
  Produced by: UNICEF and ILO
  Child labor may worsen, during the COVID-19 pandemic especially with the socioeconomic vulnerabilities that many families are facing. Adequate socioeconomic and child protection policy are needed to safeguard families and their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence against Children: Agenda for Action
  Produced by: Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence against Children
  The UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence against Children calls on governments, the international community, civil society, human rights institutions, the private sector, workers’ organizations and leaders in every sector to ensure a child rights and multi-sectoral response to COVID-19

• COVID-19 - GBV Risks to Adolescent Girls and Interventions to Protect and Empower them
  Produced by: UNICEF & IRC
  COVID-19, similar to previous pandemics has put adolescent girls at risk for GBV. This document provides practical guidelines to provide targeted support during COVID-19
• COVID-19 and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
  Produced by: UN Women
  This brief highlights emerging evidence of the impact of the recent global pandemic of COVID-19 on violence against women and girls.
• COVID-19 and its implications for protecting children online
  Produced by: UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNODC, ITU, We protect, End Violence Against Children, World Childhood Foundation
  This technical note presents priorities and recommendations for parents to consider decreasing online risks and provide a positive online experience for kids.
• Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Trafficking in Persons
  Produced by: UNODC
  Children are at heightened risk for exploitation and violence during COVID-19. There is a need to implement measures to prevent trafficking and violence during COVID-19 and beyond.
• Gender Based Violence and COVID-19
  Produced by: UNDP
  This brief provides concrete actions to prevent and address GBV in the context of COVID-19.
• Technical Note: Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic
  Produced by: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
  Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic can disrupt families, friendships, daily routines and have negative effects on child well-being and protection. Several cross-governmental measures and implementation of child protection specific programs can be developed and implemented to ensure the safety of children.
• Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Alternative Care
  Produced by: UNICEF, The alliance for child protection in humanitarian action, Better care network
  This technical note aims at supporting protection practitioners and government officials in their response to children at risk of separation from their families or those in alternative care/ recently left alternative care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• COVID-19: Protecting Children from Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the Home
  Produced by: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, UNICEF, WHO
  The technical note assesses issues related to child violence, abuse or neglect during COVID-19 lockdowns and stay-at-home orders.
• Safe to Learn during COVID-19: Recommendations to Prevent and Respond to Violence against Children in All Learning Environment
  Produced by: Safe to Learn Initiative
  Safe to Learn partners developed recommendations for governments to help prevent and respond to violence against children in different learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Technical Note on COVID-19 and Harmful Practices
  Produced by: UNICEF & Child Frontiers
  This technical note discusses the effect of COVID-19 on children especially that it has increased harmful practices and disrupted efforts to end child marriage and female genital mutilation.
• Social Protection and Child Protection: How to Join Forces to Protect Children from the Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond
  Produced by: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
  The guidance aims at addressing the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on children and families towards reduction of adverse Child Protection outcomes. The document provides guidance to support and protect families with children during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
• Technical Note: Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic (v. 2)
  Produced by: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
  The COVID-19 is turning into broader child rights crisis and affecting the safety of children. This brief aims at supporting child protection practitioners and policy makers in putting the child’s safety and well-being at the center of their COVID-19 pandemic response.
• Technical Note: Child helplines and the protection of children during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Child Helpline International, Child Protection Area of Responsibility and UNICEF
  With the increase in violence and abuse of children during COVID-19, this technical note presents guideline on initiating child protection help lines to respond to concerns raised by children.
• Moving Beyond the Numbers: What the COVID-19 pandemic means for the safety of women and girls
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a surge in GBV cases. There is a need to move beyond the GBV numbers and understand the dynamics of GBV during COVID-19 for effective decisions
• Advocating for Child Protection During the COVID-19 Response
  Produced by: UNICEF USA
  Many children are increasing exposure to domestic violence and neglect from caregivers since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially where financial and health burdens and other stressors have increased.
• COVID-19: Integration of Child Protection in Return to School - Advocacy Brief - East Asia and Pacific Region
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Failing to address abuse, violence and mental health issues in schools may negatively impact the child's learning process. This document provides guidance on the integration of child protection in schools.
• Child Protection Case Management Guidance During COVID-19
  Produced by: UNICEF, Save the children, Government of Canada
  This guidance document provides recommendations for appropriate response to cases of child violence and to ensure the continuity of child protection case management service provision during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Child protection in the context of a pandemic - COVID-19
  Produced by: UNICEF
  The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine child health services, which put children at risk of negative consequences related to child protection. This document provides recommendations for child protection response during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Interim Technical Note: Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) during COVID-19 response
  Produced by: IASC, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNHCR, WFP, IOM, UN OCHA, CHS Alliance, Inter Action UN Victim's Rights Advocate
  The COVID-19 pandemic has put children at increased risk for sexual exploitation and violence, including forced marriage. This guidance document identifies recommendations to protect children from sexual exploitation and violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020
  Produced by: WHO, World Health Organization, UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund, UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
  The SDG 16.2 aimed to end violence and abuse against children. This document presents the current situation on violence against children including during the COVID-19 pandemic and describes what needs to be done as next steps.
• COVID-19 and violence against women
  Produced by: WHO
  Violence against women remains a major global public health and women’s health threat during emergencies. This short document provides some key information about what the health sector and individuals can do during to prevent and address violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• A Joint Statement on Early Childhood Development and COVID-19: A Call for Coordinated Action to Protect and Support ALL Young Children and Their Caregivers
  Produced by: Early Childhood Development Action Network and partners
  This call for action is designed to safeguard and protect children and their caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on guides for various sectors to act upon to protect children and caregivers.
• Technical note on COVID-19 and harmful practices
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This technical note compiles some of the evidence on harmful practices towards girls and women in the time of a public health emergency and proposes programmatic responses on a policy level; systems level; in terms of evidence and data; and on the level of communities and individuals.
• COVID-19 and essential Services Provision for Survivors of Violence against Women and Girls
  Produced by: UN Women, UNFPA, UNODC, WHO, UNDP
  This Guidance document explores the implications for the provision of essential services for women and girls who have experienced violence during COVID-19.
• 15 ways to support young children and their families in the COVID-19 response
  Produced by: World Bank
  As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, young children will be especially vulnerable. World Bank teams can work with client countries to support early childhood development (ECD) by leveraging a range of interventions and mechanisms that will be part of the COVID-19 response in every country.
• COVID-19 and violence against women
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance document provides a road map for responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19.
• Prevention: Violence against women and girls and COVID-19
  Produced by: UN WOMEN
  This brief provides background information on the root causes and risk factors that explain why violence against women and girls occurs in the first place. It highlights how the context of COVID-19 is exacerbating those factors and provides indicative interventions that can be undertaken during social distancing.
• Violence against Women and Girls-data Collection during COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO, UN Women
  This is a living document that summarizes principles and recommendations to those planning to embark on data collection on the impact of COVID-19 on violence against women and girls (VAWG).

• Protecting Children from Violence in the Time of COVID-19: Disruptions in prevention and response services
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This document highlights the impact of disruptions in prevention and response services for children during COVID-19 and provides data on child protection services between 1 May and 14 August 2020 in specific countries.
• Lebanese hotline set up to handle surge in COVID-19 domestic violence cases
  Produced by: Arab news
  The Lebanese authorities have set up a domestic violence hotline to deal with the increase in physical, sexual and psychological abuse of girls and women since the COVID-19 lockdown.
• On the frontline for every child
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Although the lockdown has helped slow down the COVID-19 spread, it has made it difficult for teachers and social workers to reach children and left them vulnerable to violence, neglect and isolation. This document portrays teachers and social workers in various countries who implemented activities during COVID-19 to reach children at risk of violence, neglect and isolation.
• Surge in violent attacks during COVID-19 lockdown puts children’s lives at risk in eastern Ukraine
  Produced by: UNICEF
  While families are living in a period of lockdown and movement restriction during COVID-19, children are caught up in a 6-year long conflict in eastern Ukraine. Schools have been shifted online. Yet, children in eastern Ukraine find difficulty accessing the internet due to connection issues, the conflict has also resulted in emotional trauma to the children. UNICEF is appealing funds to support Ukraine in the response to COVID-19 and to support families with children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Kids and families broaden global perspectives during COVID-19
  Produced by: United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC)
  These resources are for children and families on COVID-19. The resources include “From My Window: Children at Home During COVID-19”, a book released by United Nations Publications, and looks at the lives of housebound children from around the world through their own perspective.

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