An education milestone for Rohingya refugee children as Myanmar curriculum pilot reaches first 10,000 children But additional measures still needed to boost school attendance in camps COX’S BAZAR, 1 May 2022 – A breakthrough for Rohingya refugee children living in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps in...
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...
Join us! Using data to ensure the safety and recovery of internally displaced and refugee Ukrainian children Day: Monday, 11 April 2022 | Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. EST / 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CET The violent war in Ukraine is threatening the safety and security of millions of people. The...
No one in Yemen has survived the past seven years unscathed. Not a single person in the country has not suffered a loss. Children have seen their friends, parents, and teachers killed. They have witnessed the repeated attacks on their schools and have seen the hospitals they rely on to recover...
Limited access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, or WASH, can cause conflict in certain parts of the world and WASH facilities can become casualties in disputes. But WASH also has a role to play in peacekeeping, according to experts Kelly Ann Naylor, associate director of WASH at UNICEF, and Gidon...
UNICEF, IOM, UNHCR, OECD, countries and other partners join forces to protect children through the International Data Alliance on Children on the Move NEW YORK, 2 March 2020 – The widespread lack of quality data on millions of displaced and migrant children is compounding the serious risks they face...
Children on the move are children first. Millions of children are on the move. Some are driven from their homes by conflict, poverty or climate change; others leave in the hope of finding a better life. Far too many encounter danger, detention, deprivation and discrimination on their journeys, at...
From sites strategically located near the border along popular transit routes, UNICEF delivers emergency services to refugee children and mothers arriving in Romania and other host countries — paying particular attention to children who arrive unaccompanied. In the past 10 days, 1.7 million people...
UNICEF warns of mounting risks for children as conflict intensifies in populated areas GENEVA, 3 March 2022 – The conflict in Ukraine, now in its second week, is exacting a harrowing toll on children, UNICEF warned today. Millions of children could be caught up in the violence as the fighting...