A woman is seen cradling her infant in this photograph taken in 2014 by photographer Kate Holt at the Mwembeladu Maternity Home in Zanzibar in the United Republic of Tanzania. She is using ‘kangaroo care’, where mothers with no access to incubators hold their preterm babies constantly against their skin to keep them warm. Millions of… Read more →←
Topic: Data and research
Innovation has become a major priority for UNICEF A big part of our work in innovation means exploring new ideas and technology – even some technology that can be seemingly controversial. In mid-March, UNICEF video producer Nerina Penzhorn and I visited Pia Zaragoza, a graduate student at New York University’s Interactive… Read more →←
Four months after the new school year was meant to start in Central African Republic in October, we knew very little about what was happening in classrooms throughout the country. Since December 2012, the ongoing ethnic and religious fighting has decimated the school system. The chain of reporting between principals, school inspectors… Read more →←
Pneumonia and diarrhoea are the two greatest causes of death in children younger than 5 years of age. In 2010 and 2011, children in lower-income countries started to receive vaccines to protect them against these two diseases. Meanwhile, children living in industrialized economies had started receiving these vaccines some eight years… Read more →←
One in seven people still practice open defecation – shockingly the vast majority live in middle-income countries, in other words countries which have the resources to address the problem. This is especially the case for India, home to almost 600 million people with no sanitation facility whatsoever and the target of a recent… Read more →←
The conflict in Central African Republic is limiting access of women and children to health and other services. Many children are affected by deteriorating living conditions, like this young girl seen undergoing nutrition screening in this week’s Photo of the Week by photographer Roger Lemoyne. The yellow on the armband indicates that… Read more →←
C4D, S4D and now ICT4D. The latest “4D” could represent one of the most important social and economic development trends in years. Communication technologies have long been seen as development “silver bullets.” First radio was going to boost productivity for rural farmers, then TV sets were supposed to replace teachers in remote… Read more →←
The story takes place in the northern part of Equateur (Nord-Ubangi), a remote province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Our mission was to assess the nutritional situation and the care of refugee children from the Central African Republic (CAR) and people in host Health Zones. Accompanied by the Child Survival Administrator and our… Read more →←
This Saturday, the world will commemorate World Water Day – an event which will be used to call upon governments and partners to ensure universal safe water access for all. From the “glass is half full” point of view, we can see much progress has been made. The Millennium Development Goal target for Water was met in 2010, and 2.1… Read more →←
Soon after I arrived in China the national obsession with “weibo” popped up all around me. It was explained as “twitter on steroids” – the 140 character limit effectively meant each post could convey the equivalent of 140 words. The UNICEF China office started a weibo account in late 2010. I didn’t give it much thought until… Read more →←
