WASH for child health and development during COVID-19

• Cleaning tips to help keep COVID-19 out of your home
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Parents can protect their children from COVID-19 by implementing certain cleaning practices and maintaining good personal hygiene. This article provides tips on how to do so.
• Handwashing: A Family Activity
  Produced by: CDC
  Teaching children how to maintain good personal hygiene and how to wash their hands properly can start at the family level. These tips help parents teach their children on how to properly clean their hands.
• How to talk to your child about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Parents can talk to their children in an open and honest manner about COVID-19, teaching them how to protect themselves and others around them. (Tip number 3)
• Best Hygiene Practices for Kids in 2020
  Produced by: Child's play: Early Learning Center
  Tips are provided to parents on how to encourage and teach their children proper hand hygiene practices. (Handwashing, Coughing & Sneezing, and things to remember)
• Healthy at home
  Produced by: WHO
  This page gives parents resources on how they can protect children from COVID-19 and always includes videos to teach children how to wash their hands.
• Washing your hands is one of the easiest ways to keep yourself and others from getting sick. Do you know what actions should prompt you to wash your hands?
  Produced by: Norton's Children
  Parents are given tips on how to protect their children from COVID-19
• Handwashing for children
  Produced by: Michigan State University
  This article highlights the importance of hand washing and how parents can teach their children to wash their hands properly.
• 2 in 5 schools around the world lacked basic handwashing facilities prior to COVID-19 pandemic — UNICEF, WHO
  Produced by: UNICEF, WHO
  This press release summarizes key findings from a UNICEF report about the availability and accessibility of WASH services to children globally.
• Global Handwashing Day: Five Easy Ways to Promote Handwashing Habit in Children
  Published by: Swasth India
  This news article provides tips that parents can use to teach their children proper handwashing practices.

• Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic: Technical Note
  Produced by: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
  This technical guidance provides recommendations on how to protect children during the pandemic.

• Interim technical note on water, sanitation and hygiene for COVID-19 response in slums and informal urban settlements
  Produced by: UN-habitat & UNICEF
  This guidance provides recommendations on how to support WASH interventions during the pandemic to meet the needs of urban and slums. (Page 10)
• Operational planning guidance to support country preparedness and response
  Produced by: WHO
  This report provides guidance on how stakeholders can work together to create a more coordinated response to dealing with COVID-19.
• Water, sanitation, hygiene and waste management for COVID-19: technical brief
  Produced by: WHO
  This brief provides guidance on waste management practices that can reduce COVID-19 transmission rates within communities, schools, etc.
• COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response WASH and Infection Prevention and Control Measures in Schools
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This guidance discusses the role that the UNICEF staff has in reducing COVID-19 transmission within schools when re-opened.
• WASH and infection prevention and control in households and public spaces
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This guidance note describes the roles of the WASH sector in COVID-19 prevention and control within household and community settings (Page 3)
• Water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance describes the risks associated with improperly managed waste/ untreated sewage and how providers can strengthen WASH services.
• Recommendations to Member States to improve hand hygiene practices to help prevent the transmission of the COVID-19 virus
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance provides recommendations on how governments can promote hand hygiene practices within communities.
• Key Messages and Actions for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Schools
  Produced by: UNICEF, WHO, IFRC
  This document provides guidance on how schools can re-open safely and protect children from COVID-19.
• Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene In Schools
  Produced by: WHO and UNICEF
  This situation report describes the progress, the challenges, and the gaps that countries face in achieving SDGs related to WASH by 2030.

• Everything you need to know about washing your hands to protect against coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This page provides parents and caregivers with answers to commonly asked questions on how to make sure that they and their children wash their hands properly and how to protect themselves from COVID.
• Frequently Asked Questions about coronavirus disease (COVID-19): What you need to know about the virus to protect you and your family
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This page provides answers to parents and caregivers about how to protect themselves and their children from COVID-19. (The Coronavirus, travel advice, and adolescent & youth sections)
• UNICEF’s answers to frequently asked questions from children about coronavirus
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This page was created by UNICEF to answer commonly asked questions by children about COVID-19 and what they can do to protect themselves and their families.

• Good Practice for WASH in Ghana: Meeting the Targets for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene by 2030
  Produced by: IRC
  This document highlights Ghana's experience with introducing WASH interventions in communities and the progress made towards meeting SDG targets for water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030.
• Engaging school-aged youth to write radio dramas on COVID-19
  Produced by: WaterAid
  This page describes a program developed by and NGO in Rwanda which promoted hand hygiene and COVIID-19 safe practices.
• 3M: a national monitoring system for COVID-19 prevention behaviours in Indonesia
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This page describes a national response plan implemented in Indonesia to reduce COVID-19 infection rates.

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