Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on INSPIRE: 7 Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children

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Violence affects children in all countries, and all settings – at home, in schools, online and the communities. It is a multi-faceted, complex issue, and to address it, we need knowledge-based, actionable strategies that cut across sectors.

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Are parenting programmes enough to prevent violence?

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Parents and caregivers have a central role in a child’s development and nurturing. To fulfil this role, they must be made aware of and have access to evidence-backed ways to protect children from the threats of violence, and, most importantly, not be preparators of the violence themselves.

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21
Jun

Africa Regional Convening to Support Parents and Caregivers

10 AM GMT
Online
Organizer: Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH), the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), The African Early Childhood Network

Africa Regional Convening to Support Parents and Caregivers

10 AM GMT
Online
Organizer: Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH), the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), The African Early Childhood Network

In response to the challenges posed to families and children by the COVID-19 pandemic, a coalition of partners including World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH), the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), The African Early Childhood Network and the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children (EVAC) established the Global Initiative to Support Parents. The mission of the initiative is to promote the development and scale of innovative, evidence-based parenting support programs to create environments that enable children’s wellbeing and health through global advocacy and country-level support. 

The Global Initiative to Support Parents partners will be convening conferences and convenings across each region to develop a common understanding of evidence-based solutions and further commitment towards supporting parents and families. The regional convenings will culminate into a Global Summit, at the end of 2022, as well as a compendium of evidence-based case studies.

The Africa regional convening is coming up soon – it will be held on June 21, 22, 23 from 10AM to 1PM GMT. 

This convening will: 

  • Share evidence-based parenting and caregiving support and practices for early childhood development, violence prevention, mental health, adolescent health and multi-sectoral life outcomes (including case studies, approaches, and Africa-specific accomplishments and challenges)
  • Generate policy dialogue to strengthen political, financial and human resourcing for the scale-up implementation of parenting support interventions 
  • Promote whole-of-government approach and multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder collaboration for investment 
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End Violence Advocates

23
Jun

Safe to Learn Regional Roundtable with Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan and Uganda

12:00-1:30 PM GMT | 2:00-3:30 PM CAT | 3:00-4:30 PM EAT
Online
Organizer: Safe to Learn - End Violence Partnership, CSO Forum to End Violence against Children, The Global Partnership for Education, UNESCO and UNICEF and organised in collaboration with the End Violence Lab at the University of Edinburgh

Safe to Learn Regional Roundtable with Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan and Uganda

12:00-1:30 PM GMT | 2:00-3:30 PM CAT | 3:00-4:30 PM EAT
Online
Organizer: Safe to Learn - End Violence Partnership, CSO Forum to End Violence against Children, The Global Partnership for Education, UNESCO and UNICEF and organised in collaboration with the End Violence Lab at the University of Edinburgh

The challenge:

Global evidence shows that children exposed to physical, sexual, and emotional violence at school, online and on their way to and from school have poor outcomes that undermine educational investments. Violence negatively affects students’ education, health, development, and well-being, with long-lasting adverse consequences that can be carried from generation to generation. It also prevents many children, including girls and the most vulnerable children, from attending school and accessing equal educational opportunities.

As African countries struggle to recover from the unprecedented education crisis caused by the COVID19 pandemic, ensuring schools and all learning environments provide the safe and supportive space that children need is more crucial than ever.

The solution:

Effective policies are evidence-based and informed by practice on-the-ground. While there is ample school-based data on violence against children, data gaps remain, and available data are not always accessible to policymakers and practitioners who need it.

This Safe to Learn Regional Roundtable, the first in a series of three roundtables to be held in Sub Saharan Africa, will provide the opportunity for participants to explore how to move data into action. The roundtables will leverage and share countries’ lessons learnt to demonstrate what works and how to overcome challenges in generating and using evidence to effectively end violence against children in school. The roundtables will also provide an opportunity for peer-to-peer inspiration and connections creating an inter- country platform for the sharing of knowledge, experiences, and tools and for informed dialogue across countries.

The first roundtable in this series will bring together policy makers and practitioners from the five countries in Africa that have endorsed the Safe to Learn Call to Action – Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, and Uganda. Facilitated by global South and North experts on data, evidence and safe schools, this event brings policy and practice together. Ministries such as Education and Social Affairs will join active practitioners from civil society and other partner organizations to collectively explore context-appropriate prevention and response to violence in and around schools in the five countries.

Organisers:

The event is co-convened by the Safe to Learn Secretariat/End Violence Partnership, the CSO Forum to End Violence against Children, The Global Partnership for Education, UNESCO and UNICEF and organised in collaboration with the End Violence Lab at the University of Edinburgh.

Learn more about the Safe to Learn Regional Roundtable series.

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10
Jun

High-Level session to present the National Plan to End Violence Against Children: Colombia, Finland and Japan

8am Colombia / 9am New York / 4pm Finland / 10pm Japan
Online
Organizer: End Violence Partnership

High-Level session to present the National Plan to End Violence Against Children: Colombia, Finland and Japan

8am Colombia / 9am New York / 4pm Finland / 10pm Japan
Online
Organizer: End Violence Partnership

Government plays a key role in preventing violence and protecting children, by making homes, communities and schools safe and nurturing places and ensuring that families have the means to protect their children so they can prosper.

Preventing and responding to violence against children requires sustained political will and collaboration among multisector stakeholders both within and beyond government. A national action plan can bring actors together, define levels of responsibilities and outline the strategic orientation and activities needed to address this specific issue. Having a documented plan, ratified by a legal body, can strengthen commitments to political change and pave the way to having a costed and budgeted response.

In this spirit, we are pleased to announce the presentation of three recently launched National Action Plans to End Violence Against Children from Pathfinding countries Colombia, Finland and Japan. We would like to invite you to learn more about the goals and targets of these three comprehensive plans and the countries’ experience in prioritising child protection and wellbeing by developing, coordinating, costing and most importantly, how they envision to implement their national action plans.

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03
Jun

Recovering learning and addressing the learning crisis by promoting well-being and addressing violence in Asia and Pacific

June 3 - 8:30-10.00 AM ICT / 9:30 - 11:00 PM EST (June 2)
Online
Organizer: UNICEF, End Violence Partnership's Safe to Learn initiative, UNFPA, UNESCO, UN Women, WHO, Plan International

Recovering learning and addressing the learning crisis by promoting well-being and addressing violence in Asia and Pacific

June 3 - 8:30-10.00 AM ICT / 9:30 - 11:00 PM EST (June 2)
Online
Organizer: UNICEF, End Violence Partnership's Safe to Learn initiative, UNFPA, UNESCO, UN Women, WHO, Plan International

COVID-19 revealed both weaknesses and opportunities within the education system worldwide. School closures across East Asia and the Pacific deepened the learning crisis, with some children losing more than a year of learning. They also increased children’s risk of experiencing violence, including gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse and heightened mental health risks, with many children and adolescents experiencing extreme stress, social isolation and economic distress.

Violence impacts students' attendance and completion rates, as well as learning outcomes. Children cannot effectively learn when under stress or in fear of violence. 

Failing to address and prevent violence and ensure well-being will undermine investment in the learning recovery agenda and impact progress towards SDG 4. It is imperative that violence and mental health risks are tackled as part of, and integrated in the learning recovery agenda and as part of longer-term measures to respond to the learning crisis. 

The Ministry of Education of Thailand, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, UNESCO and UNICEF have joined forces to host the 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Education Minister’s Conference -  to discuss progress made towards SDG4 in the region and determine priority actions towards building an effective learning recovery strategy and developing resilient, transformative education systems. 

In line with the conference theme on learning recovery and responding to the learning crisis, regional offices of UNICEF, together with the Safe to Learn global initiative, UNFPA, UNESCO, UN Women, WHO, Plan International are co-convening a side event on ‘Recovering learning and addressing the learning crisis by promoting well-being and addressing violence in Asia and Pacific’. The event aims to raise awareness of and present the latest evidence on the critical connection between children's learning and their mental health and protection from all forms of violence. It will bring together diverse experts to provide guidance and pragmatic recommendations on effective strategies for promoting mental health and tackling and preventing violence through learning recovery efforts.

 

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Concept Note: Safe to Learn Regional Roundtables Series 2022 – 2024

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Child marriage and environmental crises: an evidence brief 

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Climate change and its related impacts are driving up threats to child rights and safety crisis by contributing to a number of drivers of violence – including child marriages. The practice of child marriage is driven by a web of complex factors including economic need, displacement, gender norms, sexual violence, all of which are being exacerbated by the climate crisis. 

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The role of social protection in the elimination of child labour: evidence review and policy implications

WHY WE LIKE THIS PIECE

Now is a critical time in our fight to end child labour. With the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crises and conflict, progress to eliminate the practice has stalled. An estimated 160 million children are reported to be involved in child labour worldwide, and without mitigation strategies, this number could rise by almost 9 million by the end of 2023. We need evidenced-based solutions that can accelerate action to address this. 

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