Attacks on kindergartens and schools have been a sad reality for children in eastern Ukraine over the last eight years, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday. Since the beginning of the conflict, more than 750 schools have been damaged. On Thursday, according to media reports and the...
Real-Time Assessment of UNICEF’s ongoing response to COVID-19 in ESA: Safe School Reopening In April 2021, UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) initiated phase 2 of its Real-Time Assessment (RTA) of UNICEF’s response to COVID-19 across the Eastern and Southern Africa region...
Joint evaluation of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation: Accelerating Change Phase III (2018-2021) #FGMeval The joint evaluation, conducted by the Evaluation Offices of UNFPA (lead agency) and UNICEF, assesses the programme contributions to outputs and...
Why should UNICEF focus on environment, urbanization and planning? Every second person on earth lives in a city. By mid-century, two out of three people will live in cities. However, most of the urban growth is taking place in cities in the global South, in countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America...
The UNEG EPE Session on Planning and Managing Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era Thursday, 11 November 2021, 9:00-10:30AM EST This is session 1 of 2 by the COVID-19 Working Group. The session will look at how evaluation offices have planned and managed evaluations considering the restrictions imposed by...
Currently 4.4 billion people live in cities comprising 56 percent of the global population. The current urbanization trends are contradicting the common perception that urbanization and prosperity are synonymous. Most urban growth is happening in low and middle-income countries on the back of...
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UNICEF evaluation function repurposed its approach to ensure its continued relevance and utility. Check out this vlog that provides a brief overview of what this entailed! ...
UNICEF and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative CRA Dashboard The UNICEF Evaluation Office in collaboration with C4D and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative has launched the multi-country Community Rapid Assessment (CRA) social and behavioral trend data. This primary objective of this work is to provide...
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented both challenge and opportunity, necessitating the use of various tools and approaches to understand how the virus is affecting children and their families all over the world. Effective management of the pandemic relies heavily on individual and community behaviors...