Children, despite being less affected by the virus itself, are bearing a disproportionate burden of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools have been closed for months, impacting not just children’s education, but also their nutrition, growth, social development, and protection. Containment measures have increased levels of violence in the home. Social protection responses often fail to cater for the needs of children and their families. Compounding this is the regression of developments made in recent decades and the halting of progress towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In response to this unprecedented crisis for children, UNICEF Innocenti is mobilizing a rapid research response to provide the evidence needed to scale up rapid assessment, develop urgent mitigating strategies, and prepare interventions to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
Mind Matters
Mind Matters
It’s Not Too Late to Act on Early Learning
Continuing learning for the most vulnerable during COVID-19
COVID-19 and the Looming Debt Crisis
Lifting Barriers to Education During and After COVID-19
COVID-19 Missing More Than a Classroom. The impact of school closures on children’s nutrition
Learning at a Distance: Children’s remote learning experiences in Italy during COVID
COVID-19: Trends, Promising Practices and Gaps in Remote Learning for Pre-Primary Education
Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19. Social protection in high-income countries
A Lifeline at Risk COVID-19, Remittances and Children
Beyond Masks: Impacts of COVID-19 and solutions for children and adolescents
The Evolving Epidemiologic and Clinical Picture of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Disease in Children and Young People
What Have We Learnt? Findings from a survey of ministries of education on national responses to COVID-19
COVID-19: Effects of school closures on foundational skills and promising practices for monitoring and mitigating learning loss
Social protection after COVID-19 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
COVID-19: How prepared are global education systems for future crises?
COVID-19: A reason to double down on investments in pre-primary education
COVID-19: How are Countries Preparing to Mitigate the Learning Loss as Schools Reopen? Trends and emerging good practices to support the most vulnerable children
Childcare in a Global Crisis: The Impact of COVID-19 on work and family life
Impacts of Pandemics and Epidemics on Child Protection: Lessons learned from a rapid review in the context of COVID-19
COVID-19 may pose greater risk to children than originally thought
Digital Connectivity During COVID-19: Access to vital information for every child
A Rapid Review of Economic Policy and Social Protection Responses to Health and Economic Crises and Their Effects on Children
COVID-19 and children, in the North and in the South
Promising practices for equitable remote learning
Parental Engagement in Children’s Learning during COVID-19
UNICEF Innocenti has produced the Children and COVID-19 Research Library to highlight the available global scientific research and evidence on children and the coronavirus pandemic.
The library is a searchable database of research from the most reputable sources around the world on the coronavirus pandemic and its impacts on children and adolescents. It is one of the most advanced publicly accessible databases of research on COVID-19 and children available.
Evidence and Gap Map Research Brief UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018–2021: Covid-19 Special Evidence Brief
Ethical Issues: Digital contact tracing and surveillance during COVID-19
Ethical Considerations for Evidence Generation Involving Children on the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Evolving Epidemiologic and Clinical Picture of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Disease in Children and Young People
Does COVID-19 Affect the Health of Children and Young People More Than We Thought?
Impacts of Pandemics and Epidemics on Child Protection
Why we can’t afford to let early childhood education fall through the COVID-19 cracks
How to co-create research during a global pandemic
Safeguarding and sport for development during and after the pandemic
How will COVID-19 disrupt child well-being in Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
Making sure the most vulnerable children are heard during COVID-19: 5 lessons on data collection from Somalia
Protecting children from harm during COVID-19 needs evidence
COVID-19 may pose greater risk to children than originally thought
How sport can help keep children engaged during COVID-19: Innovations by South African S4D organizations
5 Questions on Research on Violence against Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Are we at risk of making the same errors we made at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS pandemic?
Spain’s Basic Income Response to COVID-19
Remote data collection on VAW: A conversation with experts (Part 1)
Remote data collection on VAC: A conversation with experts (Part 2)
Why Child Labour Cannot be Forgotten During COVID-19
Remote learning amid a global pandemic: Insights from MICS6
Can broadcast media foster equitable learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
Can we count on parents to help their children learn at home?
How prepared are global education systems for future crises?
Caring in the time of COVID-19
Lessons from COVID-19: Getting remote learning right
From the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, insights on helping families and children cope
Ethical collection of data from children during the COVID-19 pandemic
Children on the move in East Africa: Research insights to mitigate COVID-19
Five ways governments are responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19
Fast access to cash provides urgent relief to those hardest hit by COVID—19
Webinar: COVID-19 and Child Labour
Webinar: Vaccines: Doses, Distribution and Bridging the Great Divide
Webinar: COVID and the Looming Debt Crisis
Webinar: Special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Webinar: COVID-19, the Infodemic and Fake News
Webinar: COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis
Webinar: COVID-19 and Child Health
Webinar: COVID-19 and economic impact on children
Webinar: Hand Hygiene for every child during and after COVID-19
Webinar: Remote Learning & Beyond #COVID19
Webinar: Support for Families during COVID-19
Webinar: Violence in the home before, during and after COVID-19
Webinar: Children Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic