Education during COVID-19 and beyond

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The COVID-19 crisis and the unparalleled education disruption is far from over. As many as 100 countries have yet to announce a date for schools to reopen and across the world, governments, unions, parents and children are grappling with when and how to approach the next phase. Countries have started planning to reopen schools nationwide, either based on grade level and by prioritizing exam classes, or through localized openings in regions with fewer cases of…

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Guidance: Assessing and Monitoring Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis

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This guidance note aims to help UNICEF Education staff, Ministry officials and partners reflect on how to take account of learning through meaningful formative and summative assessment practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights general considerations and key actions that teachers, schools and Ministries of Education can undertake in the area of assessment to ensure the continuity of quality learning throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.   Download    

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Checklist for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Socio-Economic Country Responses to COVID-19

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To help countries tackle the devastating social and economic dimensions of the pandemic, with a focus on at-risk groups, the UN issued the UN framework for the immediate socio- economic response to COVID-19 (SERF) in April 2020. The SERF sets out the strategy and blueprint for the UN’s urgent socio-economic response to countries and societies in the face of COVID-19. Organized by the five streams of work that constitute the SERF (Health First; Protecting People;…

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Building back with Justice: Dismantling inequalities after COVID-19

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In this report, Christian Aid is calling for a global response package to deal with the immediate impacts of the crisis to build social and economic resilience to future crises, tackles poverty and inequality, and set the world on a trajectory to meet the Paris climate commitments.   Download

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Pivoting to remote research on violence against women during COVID-19

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This SVRI Knowledge Exchange discusses when—and how—to safely proceed with remote data collection about VAW during COVID-19 (or similar public health emergencies). The discussion builds on recent publications developed by VAW experts, and is intended to be immediately applicable for organisations considering qualitative and/or quantitative research involving adult women during the pandemic.   Download

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MHPSS considerations in burial practices and responses to grief and loss during COVID-19

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Adapting Common Funeral Practices in South Sudan Communities During COVID-19

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The Emerging Lessons on Urban Vulnerability and Safety from Covid-19 in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

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This discussion paper sets forth the lessons on urban vulnerability and safety, relevant to the security sector, emerging from coronavirus (Covid-19) and its related socioeconomic impacts on urban societies in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The paper is structured as four sections: section one describes in brief the direct and indirect impacts of Covid-19. Section two describes the impacts of Covid-19on the incidence of crime, violence,and insecurity. Section three summarises the emerging lessons for the security…

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The experience of the elderly during COVID-19 in South Sudan: Considerations for a conflict sensitive approach

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This blog reflects on COVID-19 related risks that elderly people face in South Sudan and provides recommendations on how to protect them in more conflict sensitive ways. Unlike many Western countries, where some elderly people reside in care homes or on their own, in South Sudan older people usually live within their family households. As such they are looked after by their children, usually their sons and daughters-in-law, and sometimes daughters. Being with the family…

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South Sudanese Youth Agency in a time of Covid-19

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Summary: The emerging picture and activities of youth in South Sudan challenges and transcends the uncritical conceptions and imagery of young South Sudanese as a characteristically violent, dangerous and criminal constituency. Although they are precluded from social, economic, cultural and political structures of power, young people continue to create and consolidate spaces to excercise and exhibit their agency. Knowing that a significant population is offline, youth peace activists in South Sudan have painted wall murals…

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