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...
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...
Thailand CO has hired Includovate Pty Ltd to conduct a targeted, iterative and participatory evaluation of its partnerships to capture key stakeholder perceptions, better understand its comparative advantages, and improve the overall strategic positioning of the CP in the Thai context. Specifically...
National Evaluation Capacity Development (NECD) is a fundamental norm endorsed by UNEG. As quoted in our 2018 Revised Evaluation Policy: “UNICEF seeks to help national authorities to evaluate their own programmes and to contribute to the strengthening of evaluation capacity in countries”. The...
Abstract In April 2020, the World Food Programme announced that without drastic change, the number of people facing food crises in the world might double in 2020 from 135 to 265 million people as a result of COVID-19 (World Food Programme, 2020). Under-resourced health, education, and transportation...
In response to the devastating floods and heavy rainfall experienced in Cambodia in late September 2020, caused by tropical storms Nangka and Saudel, Save the Children, funded by ECHO, Save the Children Korea (SCK) and the organisation’s Children’s Emergency Seed Fund (CSF) implemented a multi...
📣 LAUNCH ALERT! SAVE THE CHILDREN - NEW RESOURCE CENTRE The most comprehensive source of information on Child Rights Save the Children's Child Rights Resource Centre is the organizational, collective hub for knowledge on children's rights and interests. With a wealth of materials, ranging from...
The GDC hosts several webinars around various topics. Join us to listen, share and become a part of the solution. Here is a list of past webinars Children's Rights in a Rapidly-Evolving Digital Age: How has the digital divide further exacerbated education systems and what can we learn from over a...
A Call to Action: What Can Sector Planners, Policy Makers and Experts Do? About Climate change has a tremendous negative impact on WASH services. But at the same time, the WASH sector presents a huge opportunity to contribute to global adaptation and mitigation goals, through the building of a...