The Global Development Commons: "Youth Innovations to Tackle Climate Change" Background The Global Development Commons hosted its second youth webinar. Youth innovators from Brazil, Canada and Jordan shared details on their projects to tackle climate change in their local communities. To learn more...

Summary In March 2012, when a relatively small number of Syrians were fleeing the civil war into Jordan, UNICEF responded by setting up Water, Sanitation, and Health (WASH) services and facilities at border crossings, called transit centers. The initial numbers of refugees were in the thousands...

Social Innovation Labs (SIL) is a unique programme of creative hang-out space for adolescents that enables them to propose and implement solutions for social issues in camps. SIL aims to develop 21st century skills and empower adolescents. Taking a broad definition of education, with a focus on...

In this Op-Ed article, Representative of UNICEF Jordan Robert Jenkins writes that continued and scaled-up action is needed to protect this resource for children and future generations in water-scarce Jordan. In Jordan, the second most water-scarce country in the world, continued and scaled-up action...