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Every year, UNICEF showcases quality research and evaluations for children through Best of UNICEF Research and Most Influential Evaluations. For 2020, the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and the UNICEF Evaluation Office have joined forces to produce a single publication awarding reports with a...

Background Many African countries have been praised for waging an effective campaign to combat the spread of coronavirus despite their reputation for having fragile state heath systems. The continent, which has a population of more than one billion, has had about 1.5 million cases, according to data...

Independent assessment of the collective humanitarian response of the IASC member organizations GPPi is conducting an inter-agency humanitarian evaluation (IAHE) of the emergency response to the droughts in Ethiopia since 2015. The IAHE independently assesses the extent to which the collective...

This video follows 13-year-old Ayesha from Ethiopia as she walks 8 hours to her nearest water supply. Despite this arduous journey, Ayesha, finds herself once again collecting unsanitary water to bring back home to her family. ...

This video follows the life of 12 year old girl, Tarik Haftay, who has to walk hours just to collect dirty water for her family. This task affects her education and violates her child rights. ...

SUSTAINING RURAL WATER: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MAINTENANCE MODELS FOR COMMUNITY-MANAGED SCHEMES This comparative study is based on the premise that each maintenance model represents a sub-system of the broader water supply system and is constituted by a set of factors and actors, in a process of...

ABSTRACT In Uganda disposal of human excreta has been done since the 1950s through the use of pit latrines. In the 1990s, the pit latrine designs were modified to remove fly nuisance and smell through the use of what is known as ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines. While the VIP works well on a...

In this study, we analyse humanitarian and development water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) approaches in South Sudan, and consider how and why siloes have arisen between the two. To improve complementarity, we identify a need for common principles for WASH in protracted crises. These common...