YESS Movement COVID-19 Survival Strategies Handbook

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

I Inactive

Key Information

This COVID-19 survival strategies handbook is a resource created by girls, for girls. The YESS Girls of 2020 have given their creativity, ingenuity, research and hard work to produce this handbook for others across our Movement. It offers interesting activities to keep you and your members engaged, connected and active, and provides practical information, tips and advice for coping with the effects of COVID-19.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.wagggs.org/en/resources/yess-movement-covid-19-survival-strategy-handbook/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Mentorship
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

0 - 20

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • N/A

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

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
  • Peer mentors

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Social/gender norms change

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

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved nutrition
  • Increased agency and empowerment