INTRODUCTION Global data suggest that the risk of transmission of COVID-19 between children in a school setting is minimal when adequate protective measures are applied (mask wearing, physical distancing, hygiene practices). However, in response to the pandemic, many governments around the world...
UNICEF DRC is helping to address the impact of COVID-19 on the education of girls through upstream support to the government and multi-sectoral programming. Financial support from the Global Partnership for Education, Education Cannot Wait and Global Affairs Canada, among other donors, enabled...
Delivering Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services during humanitarian emergencies and immediate recovery phases is essential for saving lives and responding to basic needs, yet choices about how WASH services are delivered can undermine future development and peace. Longer-term interventions...
Rapid Response to Population Movement – RRMP – is a program to provide large-scale assistance in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), health, child protection, education and non-food items to recently displaced persons and returned populations, host families and the most vulnerable in areas of DRC...
This article documents how schools have come under attack from various groups engaged in eastern Congo’s armed conflicts. Military use of use of schools damages and destroys already insufficient and poor quality education infrastructure. Additionally, warring parties unlawfully recruit or abduct...
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