This open letter calls on national governments and multilateral institutions to work immediately to strengthen ‘child protection in COVID-19’ response frameworks and to provide sufficient donor support to implement these responses effectively.

This document provides technical guidance for a variety of PEPFAR issues, including the care of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), and will be updated routinely as the situation evolves.

A coalition of six disability rights organisations has launched a major international monitoring initiative entitled “COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor” to conduct rapid independent monitoring of state measures concerning persons with disabilities. 

El objetivo principal del informe es sistematizar el procedimiento sustantivo en los Departamentos de Guatemala, Quetzaltenango y de Zacapa realizado por Procuraduría General de la Nación (PGN) en el que se individualiza el tipo de amenaza o vulneración en el caso concreto e identifica si la misma puede ser resuelta mediante una intervención gubernamental específica, sin necesidad de intervención jurisdiccional y su análisis. El documento contiene un estudio del Sistema de Gestión para la Atención Integral de la Niñez y la Adolescencia, en relación al funcionamiento por parte de la Procuraduría General de la Nación de Quetzaltenango, Guatemala y Zacapa, y un análisis de casos resueltos judicialmente en Zacapa que podrían haberse tramitado previamente en la vía administrativa y evitar la institucionalización (gatekeeping mechanism en ingles)

This brief describes some of the "compelling evidence that the foundations of lifelong health" are built in the early years of life, "with increasing evidence of the importance of the prenatal period and first few years after birth."

This UN brief examines the COVID-19 pandemic's threats to food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world and suggests three mutually reinforcing sets of priority actions to address the immediate, near- and medium-term needs to protect people during and beyond the crisis, and – ultimately – to reshape and build resilient food systems.

This report from ODI and UNICEF critically reviews the case for universal child benefits (UCBs). It seeks to contribute to a burgeoning and lively debate on the (potential) role of UCBs as a policy instrument in the pursuit of child poverty reduction and universal social protection.

This editorial from The Lancet Global Health discusses the effect of COVID-19 on food insecurity, particularly for women and children.

This one-page factsheet from Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) provides facts and information about COVID-19 and malnutrition.

Based on World Vision's extensive experience working with children and families in crisis, this policy brief outlines recommendations to stakeholders, such governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and donors, and calls for the use of child-sensitive social protection in these stakeholder’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.