Protect a Generation: The Impact of COVID-19 on Children's Lives
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Key Information
Save the Children carried out a global survey of children and their parents or caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic, to find out the impact that the pandemic is having on their access to healthcare, their education, their family finances and their safety, and to hear from children themselves on these topics. The survey is the largest and most comprehensive survey of children and families during the COVID-19 crisis to date. The research was implemented in 46 countries and results in the largest and most comprehensive survey of children and families during the COVID-19 crisis to date, with 31,683 parents and caregivers and 13,477 children aged between 11-17 years old participating.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Global
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2020 -
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19Geographic Scope
Global / regionalAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Secondary Enrollment
Other
- Remote Learning
Quality
- Curricula/lesson plans
- School quality
Skills
- Literacy
- Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
- Community sensitization
- COVID-19 Response
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Gender equality
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth
Age
11 - 17
School Enrolment Status
All in school
School Level
- 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 years of schooling
- Reduced absenteeism
- Reduced grade repetition
Cross-cutting goals
- Improved critical consciousness
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement