COVID's Kids: Repaying our debt to the COVID Generation

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Key Information

Today's children will forever be 'the Covid Generation'. The coronavirus pandemic is the biggest global upheaval of our age. The lives of today’s children will be deeply marked by the turmoil it has caused. Their futures depend on the choices we make today.

Save the Children's report, Covid’s Kids: Repaying our debt to the Covid Generation, sets out how the coronavirus crisis threatens the futures of children across the world.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-do/policy-and-practice/our-featured-reports/covids-kids

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Early childhood development

Quality

  • School quality

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Other cultural practices

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

0 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
  • System-wide review and reform

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Media campaigns
  • Work with community leaders
  • Work with religious leaders

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms