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...
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...
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...
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...
UNICEF Innocenti Launches Children and COVID-19 Research Library New evidence database provides one-stop-shop for quality evidence on the effects of the pandemic on children and adolescents The UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti has produced the Children and COVID-19 Research Library to highlight...