Roughly 1 billion children worldwide are out of school due to school closures related to COVID-19. Children in humanitarian settings face a double crisis as the health emergency disrupts their opportunities to learn, develop and thrive. Ensuring children can continue to learn during the pandemic, no matter their access to technology, must be central to the COVID-19 response in fragile contexts.

The Wasting Advocacy Coalition is a civil society-led, multi-stakeholder global advocacy coalition that aims to ensure that each child vulnerable to wasting has access to prevention and treatment.