Guidelines for virtual monitoring of children, their families and residential care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Changing the Way We Care

This resource from Changing the Way We Care offers guidance on adapting and/or developing services and programming to continue to best serve children and families throughout the rapidly changing times of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on conducting virtual monitoring of children, families, alternative care placements and residential care facilities.

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COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organization

This report seeks to understand the issues faced by vulnerable populations in emergencies, including children, in order to provide them with support and priority assistance and to engage them in decision-making processes for response, recovery, preparedness, and risk reduction.

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Interim Guidance on Scaling-up COVID-19 Outbreak in Readiness and Response Operations in Camps and Camp-like Settings (jointly developed by IFRC, IOM, UNHCR and WHO)

IFRC, IOM, UNHCR and WHO - Inter-Agency Standing Committee

This interim guidance is issued to assist field staff to immediately respond to urgent needs of people in humanitarian situations, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), host communities, asylum seekers, refugees and returnees, and migrants.

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Quick Tips on COVID-19 and Migrant, Refugee and Internally Displaced Children (Children on the Move)

UNICEF

This brief from UNICEF outlines the urgent action needed to put migrant and displaced children at the forefront of UNICEF’s preparedness, prevention and response to COVID19 – to ensure health, safety, and protection for all.