End Violence and the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) are partnering together to present a webinar focused on key issues on child protection in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Children and families worldwide are experiencing disruptions to their environments with closures of childcare and school services, job loss, and limited to no access to health and other essential services in response to the pandemic. Children are now entirely reliant on their caregivers for nurturing care to meet their physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development needs. With caregivers under stress for a myriad of reasons, leaves children more vulnerable to toxic stress, violence, exploitation, and abuse.
This webinar provided an overview of the issue, with lessons learned from past emergency contexts, current data on the prevalence of violence against children, presentation of guides and strategies to promote the protection of children and country presentations on strategies being currently implemented.
Presenters included:
- Dr Etienne Krug - Director, Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention.
- Dr Lucie Cluver - Professor of Child and Family Social Work, in the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Intervention in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and an Honorary Professor in Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town.
- Audrey Bollier - Coordinator for the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.
This was the second in a series of webinars on COVID-19 and early childhood development, with future webinars on a range of ECD-related issues forthcoming. It attracted 1,400 participants from across the world.
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Time: 08:30 (EST) | 14:30 (CET) | 15:30 (EAT) | 18:00 (IST) | 20:30 (CST)
Duration: 90 minutes