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Page 1 of 11 Partners Funders The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise. ECD AN Early Childhood Development Action Network www.covid19parenting.com JULY 2021 REPORT COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE In addition to our active piloting of the digital playful parenting resources on an international level, we are continuing to work closely with NGOs, faith-based organisations and 33 national governments to support them in disseminating the resources as well as in learning about their impact on the lives of families and children. IN THIS ISSUE Let’s support parenting programmes because these programmes equip parents with tools and parenting practices that help them to have better and positive relationships with their children. PLH MAPA Coach - Philippines Join the Global Initiative to Support Parents! With the spread of COVID-19, parents and caregivers are experiencing unprecedented challenges, with children at greater risk of facing abuse and not reaching their full potential. A new CDC-led global assessment in The Lancet also uncovers the impact of this hidden #pandemic – more than 1.5M children growing up without family-caregivers. The report and paper recommend evidence-based parenting programs (with economic strengthening) for all children experiencing COVID-associated orphanhood. Now, more than ever, parents and caregivers have a pivotal role to play in protecting their children and safeguarding their development, health, and well-being. To scale up support for parents and caregivers, PLH is part of the Global Initiative to Support Parents, an inter-agency vision aiming to push forward a Call to Action to implement a collective action framework that urges further investment in evidence-based playful parenting initiatives across the globe. Nearly 500 individuals joined the Global Initiative launch on June 28th, with high level leaders taking part in the panel discussion.This unparalleled worldwide crisis calls for an agile and unified effort on behalf of ALL parents and caregivers. Please join us and grow the global movement to #SupportParents. Together, let’s secure a more resilient and promising future for every child! - Dr Jamie M. Lachman and Professor Lucie Cluver, Co-Principal Investigators-University of Oxford Global Initiative to Support Parents: Join the GIPS movement! Country Highlights: - Philippines - Malaysia, Sri Lanka - South Africa PLH Digital Projects Highlights Other highlights Global Dissemination & Reach Parenting News & Events

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Page 1: JULY 2021 REPORT COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE

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Partners Funders

The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

ECD ANEarly Childhood Development Action Network

www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

COVID-19 PLAYFULPARENTING UPDATE

In addition to our active piloting of the digital playful parenting resources on an international level, we are continuing to work closely with NGOs, faith-based organisations and 33 national governments to support them in disseminating

the resources as well as in learning about their impact on the lives of families and children.

IN THIS ISSUE

Let’s support parenting programmes because these programmes equip parents with tools and parenting practices that help them to have better and positive relationships with their children.

PLH MAPA Coach - Philippines

Join the Global Initiative to Support Parents!

With the spread of COVID-19, parents and caregivers are experiencing unprecedented challenges, with children at greater risk of facing abuse and not reaching their full potential.A new CDC-led global assessment in The Lancet also uncovers the impact of this hidden #pandemic – more than 1.5M children growing up without family-caregivers. The report and paper recommend evidence-based parenting programs (with economic strengthening) for all children experiencing COVID-associated orphanhood.

Now, more than ever, parents and caregivers have a pivotal role to play in protecting theirchildren and safeguarding their development, health, and well-being.

To scale up support for parents and caregivers, PLH is part of the Global Initiativeto Support Parents, an inter-agency vision aiming to push forward a Call to Action to implement a collective action framework that urges further investment in evidence-basedplayful parenting initiatives across the globe.

Nearly 500 individuals joined the Global Initiative launch on June 28th, with high level leaders taking part in the panel discussion.This unparalleled worldwide crisis calls for an agile and unified effort on behalf of ALL parents and caregivers. Please join us and grow the global movement to #SupportParents. Together, let’s secure a more resilient and promising future for every child!

- Dr Jamie M. Lachman and Professor Lucie Cluver, Co-Principal Investigators-University of Oxford

Global Initiative to Support Parents:

Join the GIPS movement!

Country Highlights:- Philippines

- Malaysia, Sri Lanka- South Africa

PLH Digital Projects Highlights

Other highlights

Global Dissemination & Reach

Parenting News & Events

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Partners Funders

The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

ECD ANEarly Childhood Development Action Network

www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1.5 billion children were out of school. While school closures disrupted children’s learning, routines, and support systems, they also stressed on family members facing increased economic vulnerability – or who were, and continue to be, struggling to work remotely. Such stress can lead to higher rates of abuse and exploitation.

Launching the Initiative and Call-To-Action

On 28 June, nearly 500 individuals joined the launch of the interagency Global Initiative to Support Parents – and the Call to Action – to push for increased support for parents, caregivers, and families across the world.

The Global Initiative to Support Parent includes UNICEF, WHO, USAID, the Early Childhood Development Network, the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, and Parenting for Lifelong Health.

Collective Action Goals

Elizabeth Lule, the Executive Director of the Early Childhood Development Action Network, presented the Global Initiative to Support Parents, its vision and collective action framework, and the related Call to Action.

Our vision is built on 4 strategic pillars – Scale, Innovate, Generate Evidence, and Advocate. It aims to support the scale-up of evidence-based playful parenting interventions within existing government, NGO, and private sector systems.

#SUPPORTPARENTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD!

The Global Initiative to Support Parents

Through the Global Initiative to Support Parents, partners are calling for three collective action goals, including:

1. Protect children and adolescents, and support families to cope with the multiple stressors, including those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. Enable parents to nurture their children’s development across the life course in the context of reduced child-related services and increased parental responsibilities.

3. Build the foundation for mainstreaming the uptake and implementation of evidence-based parent and caregiver support initiatives in all countries.

Cross-sectoral Support to Parents & Caregivers After the Global Initiative to Support Parents was unveiled, multiple high-level leaders spoke in support of its ambition to help caregivers and, as a result, protect children. Director-General Dr Ghebreyesus spoke of the World Health Organization’s commitment to the vision and how they are supporting countries to strengthen parenting services.

Executive Director of UNICEF, Henrietta Fore, noted the importance of country-level scale -up and innovation in response to COVID-19.

Join the Global Movement

Read the full inter-agency vision, and sign the Call to Action as an organisation or an individual. The Call to Action will remain open from 28 June to 28 August 2021.Article: End Violence Partnership

Read the full inter-agency vision

Sign the Call to Action

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Partners Funders

The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

ECD ANEarly Childhood Development Action Network

www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE

Voices from the field

Our network of parenting facilitators and trainers from the field highlight the critical value of playful parenting programmes and how these are beneficial for parents and caregivers, to help them protect children and safeguard their physical, social and intellectual well-being so they can reach their full potential.

Perspectives from the field The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the pivotal role that parents and caregivers play in the health of children and adolescents. With many health and social systems badly overstretched, we must come together to support parents and caregivers.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General - World Health Organization

Parenting support programmes work. They can break inter-generational patterns of abuse and neglect in the lives of children while contributing to optimal development outcomes. As we reimagine a future for every child, we also need to reimagine how we support parents in their number one job: nurturing and caring for their children.

Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director - UNICEF

#SUPPORTPARENTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD!

Watch the full event:

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Partners Funders

The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

ECD ANEarly Childhood Development Action Network

www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE

PHILIPPINES HIGHLIGHTS

The MaPaChat implementation in the Philippines concluded in June 2021. The feasibility and effectiveness of the MaPaChat programme in reducing child maltreatment and associated risk factors will be evaluated using a pre-post mixed-methods design. Participants completed baseline and post-intervention surveys via phone interviews. Participants also answered brief online surveys every other week during programme implementation. Implementation fidelity and quality were assessed using weekly facilitator reports and process observation checklists accomplished by process monitors. Post-intervention qualitative interviews with facilitators and caregivers are ongoing and are expected to be completed by mid-July.

ParentText in the PhilippinesPLH-Philippines is preparing to deploy ParentText or Masayang Pamilya Text (MaPaText), a novel way of delivering PLH playful parenting content through an interactive chatbot. Currently, the MaPaText project is in the materials development phase, and the ParentText chat messages are already translated into the Filipino language. The feasibility study for MaPaText, in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development and with support from UNICEF Philippines and The Human Safety Net, will run from September to December 2021.

Integration of Masayang Pamilya (MaPa) Programme in Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)This July, the PLH-Philippines Training team conducts a Masayang Pamilya (MaPa) webinar series for social workers, houseparents, staff, and supervisors of DSWD - Program Management Bureau (PMB). Over 200 attendees from the Residential Care and Foster Care field offices across the Philippines participate in the Masayang Pamilya (MaPa)Webinar Series. The webinar aims to orient and equip the participants on essential MaPa playful parenting skills and how to utilise them in the centres. This is the initial step in integrating the MaPa programme in the case management and reintegration programmes of DSWD-PMB.

MaPaChat (ParentChat) in the Philippines

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Partners Funders

The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

ECD ANEarly Childhood Development Action Network

www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE

MALAYSIA HIGHLIGHTS

We are looking forward to an inspiring second half of 2021as we continue implementing the e-Naungan Kasih PositiveProgramme in Malaysia.

The Malaysian team are at the final stages of the pilot study of e-Naungan Kasih (ParentChat) to 88 parents who have at least one child aged 2 to 17 years old. The programme has been delivered by Malaysia government staff from the National Population and Family Development Board thanks to funding support from UNICEF Malaysia and The Human Safety Net.

We continue to receive positive feedback and constructive recommendations on the programme. We soon look forward to conducting a qualitative study following the completion of ParentChat.

ParentText Launch

The team has been working enthusiastically to prepareParentText for a July launch in Malaysia in the last month.

On June 29th, 2021, the ParentText team lead by Dr JamieLachman, Chief of Child Protection at UNICEF, Sarah NortonStaal, Lead Innovations at UNICEF, Issmail Nnafie, and the Deputy Dean of Universiti Putra Malaysia, Professor Dr Rumaya Juhari, hosted a meeting with the Deputy Director-General of National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN), Mr Hairil Fadzly, Md Akir and his team, to discuss the national roll-out and plans of ParentText in Malaysia.

We are excited to share that LPPK facilitators will be participating in the initial user-testing of ParentText along with the beneficiaries of Yayasan Generasi Gemilang. Furthermore, 30 to 40 LPPKN staff who have a child aged 0 to 17 years old will also be a part of the next stage - the pilot testing of ParentText. There will be at least one LPPKN member representing each state and province from Malaysia, and they will be participating along with past beneficiaries of UNICEF and PLH’s parenting programmes.

Islamic studies academicians and subject matter experts are developing the Islamic base Positive Parenting Module. The validation process by experts on the embedded contents will follow, and the sharing process with relevant target agencies, organisations and Islamic authorities will be next.

LPPKN has also offered their kind support and will be assisting us in these efforts.

e-NaunganKasih (ParentChat) Pilot in Malaysia Islamic Positive Parenting Module

SRI LANKA HIGHLIGHTS

We are excited to announce our inter-sectoral collaboration in Sri Lanka with the Health Promotion Bureau (HPB), part of the Ministry of Health, UNICEF Country Office, Arimac and Alliance Development Trust in deploying ParentText in Sri Lanka. We have made quick progress in the last month, with translation, revision and localisation of content already beginning. The first phase of research consists of a mixed-methods feasibility pilot, led by the research team at the HPB.

We will be conducting a community-based pre- and three-month post-intervention study to assess the acceptability, feasibility, and efficacy of ParentText. The pilot is planned to commence in September with 236 participants as part of the HPB Viber channel. We are in discussion with the HPB to continue our collaboration once the pilot study has concluded, hoping to conduct further research in Sri Lanka, which will examine the engagement and effectiveness of ParentText.

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Partners Funders

The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

ECD ANEarly Childhood Development Action Network

www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE

PLH Digital Update in South Africa

Thanks to support from the LEGO Foundation, we have been working closely with the South African Department of Social Development (DSD) and UNICEF to deploy innovative digital playful parenting programmes to parents in the country.

Since early May, the ParentApp team has released updated versions of the app every week to families across Africa participating in a Pan-African user testing group. Interviews with these participants are well underway to update the app based on feedback before beginning piloting with DSD in the North-West province and UNICEF through FAMSA and Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Eastern Cape provinces in late July. In addition, the ParentApp team is exploring hybrid and supported delivery options of the app with implementing partners.

The content review for ParentText has been completed. It is now ready to be translated into 5 local South African languages to be piloted in the Northern Cape province through the DSD. In addition, UNICEF is recruiting users through UReport for a national rollout of ParentText.

ParentChat, partnering with the DSD and Clowns WithoutBorders SA, has begun implementing the Western Capeprogramme in May and is now in week 8 of implementation.The Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Free Stateprovinces have started doing the Demographic and Baselinesurveys and hope to begin implementation in July. In addition,we have begun implementing a hybrid digital programme that includes in-person sessions and WhatsApp groups with Mothers2Mothers in Mpumalanga as part of the USAID-PEPFAR Dreams Initiative. This will be tested in a non-inferiority trial comparing the hybrid programme with in-person delivery.

In addition to our active piloting of the digital playful parenting resources in South Africa, we are continuing to work closely with NGOs, faith-based organisations and 33 national governments to support them in disseminating the resources and learning about their impact on the lives of families and children.

These programmes reduces violence against children and harsh parenting in particular. It also has potential to improve family relationships and there’s evidence currently that reduced family conflict should help children to develop empathy and to learn to resolve conflict in a much more constructive way.

PLH Trainer, Makerere University Child & Health Development Centre - Uganda

SOUTH AFRICA HIGHLIGHTS

Let’s support parenting programmes because they assist and support parents and caregivers to know what to expect in their child’s development stages.

- PLH Trainer, Clowns Without Borders South Africa

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Partners Funders

The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

ECD ANEarly Childhood Development Action Network

www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE

ParentApp launch Pan-African user testing

PLH DIGITAL PROJECTS HIGHLIGHTS

The ParentApp team is in the sixth week of Pan African User Testing. We continue to receive valuable feedback on the app’susability and acceptability from 14 actively engaged users, with 13 additional caregivers from several African countries beginning their app user testing journey in July.

Participants have expressed a high level of satisfaction with thecontent and relevance of the app to them and their families, andsome have also shown eagerness to share the app within theircommunity networks. The occasional technical issues reportedby participants have helped us improve the app’s usability for our target users and the models of mobile phones that they use. Participants’ views on the images and characters used in the app have varied, with some expressing a desire for more human-like images. Importantly, new content to support parents in protecting adolescents from sexual violence has been acceptable to parent testers.

Is [there] a way we can create more awareness for people to know about the app because... it’s going to help them seriously in their family, even most people that have challenges in their marriages and most people that are facing one difficulty or another... they can be able to walk out of it easily.

We’re having a good time together; we have one-on-one time; we chat; we talk; we do a lot of things together and so many activities because of what I was able to learn from the app. So, that now give me the opportunity to relate well with the kids. In preparation for wider piloting in South Africa, the development team has been busy with development and design improvements in the preparation for wider piloting in South Africa. We continue to add more features and content to the app, such as testimonials from past PLH participants, end of week activity reviews, and weekly messages. Weekly messages are designed to be unique and match the progress of each family, focusing on what parents have achieved. Importantly, we are preparing the data-collection system to be ready to convert every user click to useful and impactful data.

The ParentApp team are looking forward to starting piloting in South Africa with Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust in KwaZulu-Natal and three NGO partners in the North West in collaboration with the Department of Social Development in the province.

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The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

ECD ANEarly Childhood Development Action Network

www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

COVID-19 PLAYFUL PARENTING UPDATE

We are excited to report that our research protocol for the ParentText Optimisation Study has now undergone the final review by all the authors and has been shared with our Trial Steering Committee, which Professor Cathy Creswell from Oxford University is chairing.

This study will be conducted in Jamaica, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. The study aims to optimise user enrolment, engagement, and retention in the chatbot intervention as well as test initial impact on parenting and child outcomes over time. We will also be conducting in-depth interviews with participants and exploring how the chatbot can also improve partner relationships. In preparation for deployment, IDEMS International is finalising our online live monitoring and evaluation system, which will allow PLH and our partners to view up to date information on participant enrolment, engagement, and retention with the ParentText chatbot during the delivery.

ParentText Optimisation Study

The parenting tips developed by the Covid-19 Playful Parenting Emergency Response, supported by the LEGO Foundation with the Oak Foundation and The Human Safety Net, have now reached at least 193 million parents in 189 countries worldwide.

Global dissemination and reach

Picture: Covid-19 Parenting Tips being handed out to parents and primary caregivers at the Seriti aRe Bapaleng Active Learning Workshops in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This concludes a very exciting month for the ParentChat study as five of the six partner countries have finished their first pilot of the ParentChat programme. The largest trial continues in South Africa across five provinces, with the programme expected to reach over 300 families. As the final round of data collection is being completed by partners in Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Moldova, we will begin conducting preliminary analyses on the programme’s impact on parent and child outcomes. Key outcomes of interest include positive parenting and child maltreatment.

This month we held the second round of training for qualitative interviewers for the ePLH programme led by Dr Joyce Wamoyi from the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania. In addition, researchers from Universiti Putra Malaysia (Malaysia), Institute Alternativa (North Macedonia) and Health for Youth Association (Moldova) attended the training in preparation for the next round of interviews with parents and facilitators.

The facilitators will be asked to explore their experience delivering the programme as the leaders of the first global trial of ParentChat. Additional interviews will be conducted with parents, selected from those demonstrating low, medium, and high attendance levels. Findings from these interviews will help us refine the programme content and design for future iterations of ParentChat.

ParentChat Update

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

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The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

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www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

PARENTING NEWS & EVENTS

Congratulations, Professor Cathy Ward!

Read the Article

ARTICLE The Lancet: First global study estimates 1.5 million children have lost a parent-caregiver due to COVID-19

Prestigious Alan Pifer Award for Professor Cathy Ward(University of Cape Town)

“There is an enormous amount of violence that gets perpetrated by people who are supposed to be keeping other people safe.”

Professor Cathy Ward’s exceptional dedication to violence prevention and outstanding welfare-related research has been recognised with the 2020 University of Cape Town (UCT) prestigious Alan Pifer Award.

Growing up during apartheid, Professor Cathy Ward became aware of the systemic nature of violence in South Africa and its devastating effects on society at a young age.This sparked her interest in research around violence prevention and has led to the creation of Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) and its suite of not for profit, open access and evidence-based programmes for low-resource settings that deal with conflict at home.

For every 2 adults who die due to #COVID19, 1 child is left without a family-caregiver.

A new CDC-led global assessment in The Lancet uncovers the impact of this hidden #pandemic – more than 1.5M children growing up without family-caregivers.

The study was conducted by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control COVID-19 Response Team (USA), Imperial College London (UK), the University of Oxford (UK), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Cape Town (South Africa), the World Health Organization, University College London (UK), Maestral International, US Agency for International Development, World Without Orphans, World Bank Group and Harvard Medical School.

Read the Article

ReutersForbesFinancial TimesThe Guardian Washington Times USA TodayWorld Bank BlogsThe Times of IndiaNational Geographic IndonesiaCNN BrazilEl IndependienteFox (Milwaukee)

Global Media Coverageincluding

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The mark “CDC” is owned by the US Dept of Health and Human Services and is used with permission. Use of this logo is not an endorsement by HHS or CDC of any particular product, service, or enterprise.

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www.covid19parenting.com

JULY 2021 REPORT

PARENTING NEWS & EVENTS

REPORT - Children: The Hidden Pandemic 2021

Read the Report

Read the article

A Million Children Have Lost a Caregiver to Covid. Here’s How We Can Help Them.By Professor Lucie Cluver, University of Oxford and University of Cape Town

“Our estimates suggest that every 12 seconds, a child loses an important caregiver to the coronavirus.”

From March 2020 to last April, over a million children worldwide lost a mother, father, grandparent or another adult they relied on as a primary caregiver to Covid-19. Here’s How We Can Help Them.

Read the Op-Ed by Dr Lucie Cluver, professor of child and family social work at the University of Oxford and University of Cape Town, and one of the study’s 16 co-authors.

An estimated 1.5 million children worldwide have experienced the death of a parent, custodial grandparent, or other relative who cared for them, as a result of COVID-19, according to the new study published in The Lancet, and carried out by researchers from the CDC COVID-19 Response Team, the University of Oxford, University College London, Imperial College London, Harvard Medical School, World Bank, WHO, USAID, Maestral, World Without Orphans and other leading agencies.

Children who have lost a parent or caregiver are at risk of profound short- and long-term adverse effects on their health, safety, and wellbeing, such as increasing the risk of disease, physical abuse, sexual violence, and adolescent pregnancy. The report and paper recommend evidence-based parenting programs (with economic strengthening) for all children experiencing COVID-associated orphanhood.

Before this report, there were no global figures to quantify how many children have been affected by the loss of a caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic, either directly (due to the virus) or indirectly (due to another condition that was exacerbated due to the pandemic). The study’s researchers developed mathematical models using the best available data as an initial attempt to estimate the magnitude of this hidden impact of the pandemic on children.

Study estimates 1.5 million children lost parents or grandparents to Covid-19By Maggie Fox, CNN

“Covid-19 has created this urgent crisis affecting children in almost every nation. For every two Covid-19 deaths, one child faces the death of a parent or caregiver.”

Dr. Susan Hillis of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Response Team, who worked on the study, told CNN.

Kids who lose a parent or caregiver are not only immediately stressed; they are also more likely to suffer diseases themselves, to be abused, and to suffer poverty, the researchers said.

Read the article

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JULY 2021 REPORT

PARENTING EVENTS & NEWS

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Africa27,379,096

Asia45,568,370

Americas 7,721,393

Europe13,596,554

Middle East3,890,967

Cross-Countries95,598,377

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A feasibility assessment (Dr Amalee McCoy, 2021)

In response to the high prevalence rates of violence against children, with at least one billion children subjected to such harm during the past year alone, there has been a surge of global interest in evidence-based violence prevention and the promotion of nurturing relationships between parents/ caregivers and their children.

ARTICLE - Scaling up Parenting for Lifelong Health in Montenegro

Our Playful Parenting EmergencyResponse has brought togethera multi-agency emergency COVID-19 response to provide parents with a set of evidence-based and open-sourceparenting resources, reachingan estimated 193 million peoplein 182 countries by April 2021.

Dr Jamie M. Lachman, Senior Research Officer, University of Oxford, shares how we used the RE-AIM framework to evaluate our initiative’s reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance.