Protect a Generation: The Impact of COVID-19 on Children's Lives

  • R Research Project/Report/Study

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Save the Children carried out a global survey of children and their parents or caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic, to find out the impact that the pandemic is having on their access to healthcare, their education, their family finances and their safety, and to hear from children themselves on these topics. The survey is the largest and most comprehensive survey of children and families during the COVID-19 crisis to date. The research was implemented in 46 countries and results in the largest and most comprehensive survey of children and families during the COVID-19 crisis to date, with 31,683 parents and caregivers and 13,477 children aged between 11-17 years old participating.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/content/dam/global/reports/education-and-child-protection/Protect_a_Generation_Report_EN_FINAL.pdf

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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

Attainment
  • Secondary Enrollment
Other
  • Remote Learning
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

11 - 17

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

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
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Other
  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
Policy/legal environment
  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
  • System-wide review and reform
School-related gender-based violence
  • Safe and welcoming schools
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Media campaigns
  • Work with community leaders
  • Work with religious leaders
Women's empowerment programs
  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement