Lessons from a regional real-time assessment In April 2021, UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) initiated phase 2 of its Real-Time Assessment (RTA) of UNICEF’s response to COVID-19 across the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The second phase of this exercise aimed to...
According to the United Nations, enough food is produced every day to feed 10 billion people. Yet, we are unable to feed the global population of 7.9 billion, and over 821 million people are chronically undernourished. At first glance, doesn’t it seem fairly simple? Channel the food being wasted to...
At the start of the pandemic, UNICEF Regions of South Asia, and Eastern and Southern Africa carried out real-time community-based mobile phone surveys across 12 countries in order to track social and behavioural trends during the pandemic. Some of the standard variables include vaccine hesitancy...
Dear Colleagues, Hello! Please find below the recording to the 2nd UNEG EPE session, organized by the UNEG COVID-19 Working Group, which was held online Thursday, 9th December at 9:00AM EST. The topic of the session was: ‘Evaluating the COVID-19 response: What have we learned?’ This follows the 1st...
📣 LAUNCH ALERT! SAVE THE CHILDREN - NEW RESOURCE CENTRE The most comprehensive source of information on Child Rights Save the Children's Child Rights Resource Centre is the organizational, collective hub for knowledge on children's rights and interests. With a wealth of materials, ranging from...
These webinars have been postponed to a later date! Thank you! School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have created the largest disruption of education systems in history. The crisis has also exacerbated pre-existing disparities in education provision, particularly for those living in poor or...
As reported by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), India had 719 million internet subscribers by end 2019. The number seems large and is a definite growth from earlier years, but with India’s population, this translates to only about 50% of people connected to the net. Compare that to an...
The GDC hosts several webinars around various topics. Join us to listen, share and become a part of the solution. Here is a list of past webinars Children's Rights in a Rapidly-Evolving Digital Age: How has the digital divide further exacerbated education systems and what can we learn from over a...
Global Development Commons Youth-Led Webinar Monday | Nov 8, 2021 | 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Eastern Time The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education systems all over the world, affecting millions of students and forcing school closures and remote learning modalities. These experiences has also further...