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UNICEF initiated for the first time the involvement of Youth into the Evaluation, as facilitators of Focus Groups. Involving youth in the evaluation of adopted national programs and plans is a good practice at the regional and global levels. Turkmenistan, as a country with a high proportion of young...

The recent National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in India comes 34 years after the previous policy, announced in 1986 and revised in 1992. It took six years of work and consultations with thousands of educators, policymakers, and members of civil society. It was truly a democratic effort and is...

This op-ed shares the story of Pooja Shah’s grandmother, married at age 14. Her story is followed by statistics and information on the impact early marriage has on the education of girls, as well as the increasing number of human rights violations these girls face. Find it here: https://www...

This 18-year-old girl runs a newspaper that gives Delhi’s “street children” a voice A newspaper called “Balaknama,” which mean voices of children, provides an outlet for more than 10,000 children living in poverty to have a voice. Chandni, an 18-year-old girl in Delhi, runs the paper. Find this...

Discrimination against women and girls is a pervasive and long-running phenomenon that characterises Indian society at every level. India’s progress towards gender equality, measured by its position on rankings such as the Gender Development Index has been disappointing, despite fairly rapid rates...

By Xiheng Jiang, Vice-President of China Center for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD) The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019 shows that, while advances have been made in some areas, monumental challenges remain. The world is not on track to end poverty and millions...

In 2016, UNICEF Kyrgyzstan conducted an evaluation titled Evaluation of UNICEF Country Program (2012-2016) and Strategic Positioning to assess strategic positioning and key strategies used to implement the current Country Programme in Kyrgyzstan. The evaluation used a combination of qualitative...