Strategies | CRC articles |
Keep children and young people (CYP) visible and participating during this pandemic; encourage, privilege and listen to their voices and their representatives. | 2, 3, 12 |
Ensure universal access to quality maternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthcare and maintain preventive health measures including immunisation to keep CYP healthy, while also responding to meet the needs posed by COVID-19. | 3, 24 |
Support CYP by proactively and assertively aiding and assisting their families and communities. | 3, 6, 9, 18 |
Use the wisdom and intelligence of frontline workers, community leaders and organisations across diverse regions and localities to understand and reach families and enable them to care for their children. | 3, 6 |
Recognise the fragility of CYP who have been either removed from their families, who have been orphaned or who are in various forms of care or detention by listening and responding with additional supports. | 19, 20, 21, 34 |
Identify and reach vulnerable children in communities where their health is already compromised by inadequate or no housing, deficient sanitation and poor hygiene. | 6, 27 |
Enhance the focus on and support for, indigenous children, refugee and migrant children, those with a disability, those with chronic health conditions. | 2, 22, 23, 34 |
Mitigate the threat of compromised safety nets during the pandemic response by ensuring CYP continue to be protected within their families and communities. | 3, 18, 20 |
Respond to the additional threats and risks of violence, exploitation and abuse to children from perpetrators capitalising on reduced school attendance and surveillance by authorities. | 19, 28, 34 |
Keep CYP learning, expand internet access for families and children, and provide the support and technological capacity to do so. | 3, 28 |
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child.