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At the start of the pandemic, UNICEF Regions of South Asia, and Eastern and Southern Africa carried out real-time community-based mobile phone surveys across 12 countries in order to track social and behavioural trends during the pandemic. Some of the standard variables include vaccine hesitancy...

Brighter futures in Bangladesh with access to quality education In the Sylhet region in north-eastern Bangladesh, less than 1 in 3 children complete secondary school. Our new report analyzes the success of UNICEF Bangladesh's Let Us Learn programme and how it can be scaled up to improve access to...

Literature suggests that for countries with already low learning outcomes, high dropout rates, low resilience to shock and inadequate infrastructure to build back better the impact on education will be felt even more deeply. A total of 320 million learners in India have been adversely affected by...

Executive Summary Inclusive education systems wherein each individual has equal opportunity for educational progress is a top global priority. India has adopted a rights-based approach to inclusion of children with disabilities by ratifying the UN Convention on Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the UN...

Background POSHAN Abhiyaan is an overarching umbrella scheme to improve the nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers by holistically addressing the multiple determinants of malnutrition and attempts to prioritize the efforts of all stakeholders on a comprehensive...

Reviving Higher Education in India Hindi India has seen a dramatic increase in the capacity of its higher education sector in the last two decades. Enrollment in higher education has increased four-fold since 2001. With a Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) of 26.3% (AISHE 2018-19), we are close to...

The study on ‘Early Literacy and Multilingual Education in Asia: Challenges and Prospects’ was undertaken with the objective of developing guidance around appropriate policies and strategies for teaching and learning of early language and literacy and multilingual education in the varied language...

The current mapping was envisioned in light of the learning challenges in South Asia, the urgent need for improving teaching and learning quality and lack of clarity around the same, a desire to map UNICEF’s efforts in this area to better understand what works, and to inform UNICEF South Asia’s...