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Children’s Voice: Maintaining and Adapting for Safe Child Participation during COVID-19 - GPC Forum 2020
Organized by the CP AoR and the CPC Learning Network, this webinar will present the new ‘Children as Partners in Child Protection during COVID-19 Guide’ with the aim to assist humanitarian actors to maintain and strengthen children’s meaningful participation in their work in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic and in preparedness planning. During the webinar, participants will explore ways how children can be engaged as partners and leaders in child protection during the crisis. Tip sheets and tools that have been adapted for the COVID-19 context will be presented and experiences on meaningfully engaging children will be shared from the field. Date & Time: Tuesday 29 September 2020, 15:00 – 17:00 Geneva Time
Why Not Local? Gender-based Violence, Women’s Rights Organisations, and the Missed Opportunity of COVID-19 - IRC 2021
07 Dec, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll on women and girls’ safety in already complex humanitarian emergencies. Risk mitigation measures to prevent the spread of the virus, including lockdowns and restrictions of movement, made specific and serious disruptions in women and girls’ lives. These factors also intensified operational challenges to delivering lifesaving gender-based violence (GBV) response services, which in complex humanitarian settings were already an arduous undertaking.