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This report investigates how COVID-19 and other shocks have impacted child well-being in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) during 2020 and the potential role of cash transfers and external resources to help children and economies. It reviews the latest social, economic and financial information from a range of global databases and modelling exercises, draws on emerging country-level reporting and carries out projections where recent data are unavailable. Although information remains incomplete and things are quickly evolving, the outlook is alarming.
AUTHOR(S) Dominic Richardson; Alessandro Carraro; Victor Cebotari; Anna Gromada
AUTHOR(S) Sydney Campbell; Carlo Cicero Oneto; Manav Preet Singh Saini (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Winnie W. Y. Tso; Rosa S. Wong; Keith T. S. Tung (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Anushka Ataullahjan; Muthanna Samara; Theresa S. Betancourt
AUTHOR(S) Jacqueline Bhabha
AUTHOR(S) Loes H. C. Janssen; Marie-Louise J. Kullberg; Bart Verkuil (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Milla Salin; Anniina Kaittila; Mia Hakovirta (et al.)
The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion school-age children in more than 190 countries. Already last year, 250 million school-age children being out of school, the world was facing a “learning crisis”. But now with the COVID-19 pandemic, this crisis could turn into a generational catastrophe. While many children will continue with their education once schools reopen, others may never return to school. Current estimates indicate that 24 million children will never return to the classroom and among those, disproportional number of girls. To avert this crisis, we need to reimagine how we deliver good quality and inclusive education to the world children. Among other things, this calls for urgent investments in school health and nutrition programmes and create the conditions for children to lead healthy lives. This also includes health and nutrition literacy offered through the curriculum and through counselling in the school health services which provides young people with knowledge, skills, values, culture and behaviours they need to lead healthy, empowered lives.
AUTHOR(S) Ellen Townsend
AUTHOR(S) A. Bérubé; M.-E. Clément; V. Lafantaisie (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Karmen Toros; Asgeir Falch-Erikse
AUTHOR(S) Derya Adıbelli; Adem Sümen
AUTHOR(S) Xinxin Zhang; Wenfei Zhu; Sifan Kang (et al.)
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