Side event to the 54^th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission

• Date: Thursday, 2 March 2023
• Time: 8:00 a.m – 9:30 a.m EST

Children in a World of Challenges: Building Pathways to Resilience is a week-long series of interactive workshops and events in spring 2023 designed to facilitate dialogue around pressing issues affecting children globally.

El nuevo conjunto de herramientas de evaluación participativa de Family for Every Child pone en el centro el conocimiento y la experiencia de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) locales. Ofrece una alternativa a las dinámicas de evaluación tradicionales, aprovechando la fuerza de las soluciones locales.

Family for Every Child's new Participatory Evaluation Toolkit places the knowledge and experience of local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) at its centre. It offers an alternative to traditional evaluation dynamics, by drawing on the strength of local solutions. 

This learning event was an opportunity for care reform advocates and practitioners to learn more about social protection – as well as economic strengthening interventions - from researchers and practitioners in the field.

On February 23, from 10-11.30am CET, Eurochild and UNICEF ECARO are hosting an expert online roundtable on the subject Measuring progress in deinstitutionalisation and improving data availability, quality and comparability on children in alternative care.

This webinar gives a comprehensive overview of the World Bank’s Human Development Flagship report, Collapse & Recovery: How COVID-19 Eroded Human Capital and What to Do About It, which reviews global data showing that the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed human capital at critical moments in the life cycle, scarring millions of children and young people in low- and middle-income countries.

This World Bank report provides a first comprehensive review of global data for young people who were under the age of 25 during the pandemic. It shows that the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted human capital accumulation at critical moments in the life cycle, derailing development for millions of children and young people in low- and middle-income countries. 

Children are invited to complete the Children and Young People’s online questionnaire that will help shape the general comment on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change from 15 November 2022 to 15 February 2023.

This web annex forms part of the WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17 years. As such, it should only ever be read in conjunction with the main guideline document that sets out in detail how the methodology in the WHO handbook for guideline development was applied here, along with the development process and the recommendations themselves.