June 2020

How to Sneeze and Cough Safely with Grover | #CaringForEachOther

Watch this video together with children to learn how to sneeze and cough safely. Remind them that when they feel a tickle in their noses or throats, they should remember the right way to sneeze and cough! Sneezing or coughing into your upper sleeve or elbow helps keep germs off your hands and away from other people. It’s easy as 1, 2, 3.

Watch this video by Sesame Street.

Washy Wash

Watch this video together and sing along as you wash your hands. Talk with children about the importance of hand-washing—it helps keep us healthy and it helps keep germs away! Act out the steps of hand-washing and then practice together.

Watch this video by Sesame Street.

Technical Note: Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Alliance has now produced a version 2 of the technical note on the protection of children during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
 
Aim of this brief: To support child protection practitioners and policy makers in putting the child’s safety and well-being at the centre of their COVID-19 pandemic response. (Available in multiple languages.)
 

Guidance Note: Protection of children during infectious disease outbreaks

This Guidance Note aims to provide humanitarian child protection practitioners, particularly child protection advisors and program managers, with guidance on how to engage in responses to infectious disease outbreaks to ensure children’s protection needs are taken into account in preparedness for, and during responses to, the outbreaks. The Guidance Note draws upon lessons learned during infectious disease outbreaks globally in a variety of contexts. Available in English and Arabic.

Expanding Access to Early Childhood Development Using Interactive Audio Instruction: Guidance and Toolkit for Programme Design & Implementation

This toolkit outlines the four phases in the interative audio instructive (IAI) program cycle as they pertain to ECD programming in a facilitated group setting (early childhood classrooms, non-formal community learning centers, or other adult-led group childcare settings), with a particular focus on community-based early learning initiatives as a means of increasing access. 

Using technology to deliver educational services to children and youth in environments affected by crisis and/or conflict

 A paper to:

  1. compile and review illuminating case studies of technology-supported interventions to deliver education services that promote equitable access to children and youth in environments affected by crisis and conflict; and
  2. to provide recommendations for the design and implementation of technology-supported education interventions. 

Read this paper by USAID.

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