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Urgent political commitments and investments are needed to implement and expand proven approaches to prevent, mitigate and respond to violence against children in, around, and through schools.The Safe to Learn Call to Action outlines 5 key areas, with proven solutions and measurable benchmarks, for national governments and education actors to take action to ensure every child is safe to learn.

Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is one of the fastest-growing and increasingly complex threats to children’s safety in the digital world. As children spend more and more of their lives online, the opportunities it opens up are accompanied by threats.  In 2022 alone, the Internet Watch Foundation assessed a webpage showing child sexual abuse…, Published date:, April 2023, Language(s):, English

Safe Online is committed to fostering a global community of learning and collaboration. Through their Network Forums, they co-create knowledge with grantees, partners, and experts — sharing insights, strengthening best practices, and driving collective action to protect children online. These gatherings serve as critical platforms for dialogue,…, Published date:, various, Language(s):, English

The Safe to Learn Regional Roundtable Series aims to support countries that have expressed leadership and vision in ending violence in and through schools by providing a platform for sharing knowledge, expertise, and tools and for informed peer to peer dialogue, to accelerate progress to ensure all girls and boys in all their diversity are safe to…, . The event leveraged and shared country experiences on what works and how to overcome challenges in ending violence against children in and through schools in EAP., Preventing and Responding to Violence at the School Level in East Asia and Pacific Safe to Learn East Asia and Pacific Regional Roundtable #1 Outcome Document 1 Cover photo: UNIPH2019008 Acknowledgements: The development of this outcome document was led by Catherine Flagothier, Safe to Learn Secretariat, and the UNICEF Regional Office for East…

Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports organized a national symposium to review progress of the implementation of the Safe to Learn diagnostic study recommendations and to draw strategies to fast track recommendations that have not been implemented yet putting into consideration the emerging challenges that have been presented by COVID 19 and…

The Safe to Learn Regional Roundtable Series aims to support countries that have expressed leadership and vision in ending violence in and through schools by providing a platform for sharing knowledge, expertise, and tools and for informed peer to peer dialogue, to accelerate progress to ensure all girls and boys in all their diversity are safe to…

Counting Pennies III is the third in a series of reports investigating the state of Official Development Assistance (ODA) investment to end violence against children. The analysis is based on ODA spending for the year 2020 as collected by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The findings show that there is a…, Published by:, Brave movement, ChildFund Alliance, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, Office of the UN Representative of the Secretary General to End Violence against Children, Plan International, Save the Children, UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund, WVI, World Vision International, Published date:, September 2022, Language(s):, English

Safe to Learn would like to acknowledge the contribution of the Safe to Learn Global Advocacy Taskforce partners, co-convened by the Global Partnership for Education, in developing this product and associated advocacy work: Education Cannot Wait, the Uganda National Teachers’ Union on behalf of Education International, the Global Business Coalition for Education, Malala Fund, Plan International on behalf of the Civil Society Forum to End Violence Against Children, Together for Girls, UNESCO and UNICEF.

Manifesto was developed in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 18-20 May, 2022 in a gender-transformative leadership workshop hosted by the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education and the Gender at the Centre Initiative, a programme implemented by UNGEI and UNESCO IIEP and supported by UNICEF, GPE, UNESCO and the governments of Italy, France,…, Published date:, May 2022, Language(s):, English, French, Portuguese

The report is based on the achievements of three Safe to Learn projects implemented in Nepal by Mercy Corps, Voluntary Services Overseas, and World Education, with the support of the Safe to Learn and the UK Government.  

This outcome document was produced following the session ‘Ending Violence Against Children and promoting mental health and well-being: An imperative for the back to school and learning recovery agenda in East Asia and Pacific’ co-hosted by Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific Regional…

With the view of making schools safe, Safe to Learn members developed their joint programmatic and advocacy objectives in a five-points Call to Action, indicating what needs to happen for children to be safe to learn: 1) Implement policy and legislation; 2) Strengthen prevention and response at the school level; 3) Shift social norms and behaviour change; 4) Invest resources effectively; and 5) Generate and use evidence.The Safe to Learn initiative, under the leadership of UNICEF and with UK FCDO’s support developed a Global Programmatic Framework and Benchmarking Tool, to support countries and partners in translating the Call to Action into practical actions. This translates the Call to Action into a set of benchmarks which countries need to meet to achieve change under each area of the Call to Action.Based on the benchmarking tool, this diagnostic tool was then developed, to measure the quality of national efforts to prevent and respond to violence in and around schools against each benchmark, at national, decentralized and school level.This diagnostic tool should be read in conjunction with the Safe to Learn Global Programmatic Framework and Benchmarking Tool, which provides background and resources linked to each benchmark.