An entire generation of school-aged children and youth
risk facing the ripple effects of the COVID crisis over
their entire lifetime. Family income losses in combination
with lack of access to education and health, and increased
food insecurity have contributed to the rise in the number
of school- aged children and youth facing acute hardship.
This joint study by the Research, Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) Division and the School–Based Programme (SBP) Service aimed to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted school–aged children and youth through a global web survey conducted across seven countries Cambodia, Colombia, Ghana, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya and Zimbabwe from May to July 2021.
