The Office of Research -Innocenti is UNICEF's dedicated research centre. It undertakes research on emerging or current issues in order to inform the strategic directions, policies and programmes of UNICEF and its partners, shape global debates on child rights and development, and inform the global research and policy agenda for all children, and particularly for the most vulnerable.Publications produced by the Office are contributions to a global debate on children and may not necessarily reflect UNICEF policies or approaches. The views expressed are those of the authors.The Office of Research -Innocenti receives financial support from the Government of Italy, while funding for specific projects is also provided by other governments, international institutions and private sources, including UNICEF National Committees.For further information and to download or order this and other publications, please visit the website at www.unicef-irc.org. ABSTRACTThis short paper grew out of discussions at a two-day research workshop focused on famines and adolescents. It explores some of what we do and do not know about the impacts of humanitarian situations on adolescents' lives. Adolescents and their specific capacities and vulnerabilities have tended to be overlooked in the design and implementation of humanitarian responses, including in social protection and further components of such responses. This paper seeks to bring these questions to the attention of researchers, policy makers and practitioners in order to address identified priority gaps; build on existing knowledge; invest in better evidence generation; and include adolescents in research and response efforts in meaningful ways. Such improvements to humanitarian responses would assist in developing more inclusive efforts that consider all ages in the child's life-course; aim for more sustainable well-being outcomes and help meet core commitments to children in these settings.
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to an education emergency of unprecedented global scale. At its peak, more than 190 countries had temporarily closed schools in response to the health emergency, forcing over 90 per cent of enrolled learners around the world into either distance learning or temporarily out of school (UNESCO, 2020). Although previous health emergencies-such as the H1N1 influenza pandemic 1 This brief is based on a review of literature from the commonly used journal repositories and search engines Elton B. Stephens Company (EBSCO), Journal Storage (JSTOR), and Google Scholar, using search terms related to schooling disruptions during pandemics and natural disasters. in 2009 and the Ebola outbreak from 2014-2016-have caused short and long-term school closures in several countries, the COVID-19 crisis caught most of the world's education systems unprepared. Countries, and the regions and cities within them, had to decide how to continue providing access to education and related services, with many rapidly developing systems and content to implement wide-scale distance learning for the first time. COVID-19: How prepared are global education systems for future crises?
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