Recommendations for the management of institutions in which children and adolescents reside in the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19

Recommendations for the management of institutions in which children and adolescents reside in the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19

The Inter-American Children’s Institute, faithful to its institutional mission of strengthening the capacities of the States to promote and protect the rights of children and adolescents, and attending repeated consultations received from different States of the Inter-American System regarding the need to have protocols that guide the activity of residential centers in the context of a pandemic, has formulated and systematized a set of recommendations in order to ensure the rights of children and adolescents in the face of this health – social crisis without precedents.

They are based on various documents that international organizations concerned with the subject have produced in recent weeks, including the IACHR, the Committee on the Rights of the Child and civil society organizations. We have also consulted circulars and internal communications
issued by protection agencies from different states.

The recommendations are available for download here.