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Moving Towards Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19 Guide

This guide has been designed so that you can begin with quick tips and tools to start engaging with children immediately—either with tools that this guide provides or with proposed adaptations to tools that you used before the arrival of COVID-19. We hope, however, that you will also consider going deeper and seek to foster more meaningful child participation and, ultimately, child leadership in your programs. The latter sections of this guide help those who have found quick tips and tools to be useful to engage in deeper reflection and action about how they can practically center children’s voices and leadership in their work.

Moving Towards Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19 Guide: From Participation to Partnerships

Full Guide

Module 1: Adapting Participatory Tools during COVID-19

Module 2: Rapid Engagement of Children during COVID-19

Module 3: Ethics and Safeguarding during COVID-19

Module 4: Meaningful Child Participation in COVID-19

Module 5: Moving from Children as Participants to Children as Partners

Niños y niñas como aliados en la protección de la niñez durante COVID-19

Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19: Full Guide in Spanish

Guide sur les partenariats avec les enfants en matière de protection de l’enfance durant la COVID-19: D’enfants participants à partenaires

Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19: Full Guide in French

الأطفال كشركاء في حماية الطفل أثناء تفشي فيروس كوفيد- 19 المستجد

Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19: Full Guide in Arabic

Video Introducing the Child Participation Guide

In this video, Helen Veitch (Children Unite), Yana Mayevskaya (CPC Learning Network, Columbia University), Laura Wright and Vanessa Currie (International Institute for Child Rights and Development) introduce you to the “Moving Towards Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19 Guide” — a key resource to strengthen and guide child participation during infectious disease outbreaks.