Jiya, 9, with Bijay, 32, a Save the Children representative, talking about catch-up classes Image credit: Save the Children Learning Capsule is a program designed for grade two and three students to recover the learning they've lost due to COVID-19 school closures. Jiya, 9, is one of the children that has benefitted from Learning Capsule and can now write and dreams of becoming a nurse in the future.

Los niños más vulnerables enfrentaron riesgos únicos durante la COVID-19: cómo las agencias se comunicaron con las comunidades sobre la crianza de los hijos en entornos humanitarios y de bajos recursos

Authors: READY, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Johns Hopkins Center for Communications Programs, Right to Play, International Rescue Committee

Evidence suggests that children in low resource and humanitarian settings experienced added mental health burdens and violence in the home during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, which may have affected their health and development. For humanitarian response agencies, conducting child protection services during this pandemic had been constrained by safety concerns related to the risk of COVID-19 transmission, and logistical issues aligned with social and public health measures. This paper describes how agencies responded to the identified risks children face, integrating remote risk communication and community engagement approaches and safe in-person dialogues with parents and caregivers into child protection interventions to educate about the disease and prevention, encourage a positive parenting environment and mitigate negative effects on children.

View the paper in English on the European Society of Medicine website.

United States Agency for International Development Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, Save the Children, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, UK Med, EcoHealth Alliance, Mercy Malaysia

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