“The intergovernmental negotiations on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration recently concluded by upholding the best interests of the child and emphasizing the importance of family unity for children on the move. UNICEF’s Executive Director hailed it saying it should help equip Member States with tools to… Read more →←
This article was originally published on UNICEF’s intranet platform, ICON. In today’s 5 Questions, Kerry Albright, Chief, Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management of the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, speaks to us about her work at UNICEF, her experience at the Evidence for Children roundtable event in… Read more →←
The use of administrative data for learning and research purposes in humanitarian emergencies is a relatively unexplored field. How can we make better use of these rich pools data in humanitarian settings? And what are the potential pitfalls? It is a stylized fact that in more severe emergencies, more administrative data is available… Read more →←
Maria Luisa Jaen was abandoned by her mother at a hospital when she was 28 days old and placed into a residential care centre in the town of Cerro Silvestre, Arraiján District, in Panama Province. At just under two years old, her surroundings play a key role in determining her chances in life. A nurturing home environment and… Read more →←
Imagine you work for UNICEF in Lebanon. Your team has the challenging task of ensuring that half a million displaced Syrian children who fled the war in their home country attend primary school. These children live scattered throughout the country, as Lebanon has a “no-camps” policy. Many of them are traumatized and grow up in bitter… Read more →←
This week, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) launched its 2018 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2018), which presents data and analysis on the patterns and trends of internal displacement worldwide. The main findings of this report show that despite twenty years of global and national policy effort, since the… Read more →←
Rhoda Nkhambule, mother of two, lives in Thipa village – 19 km from the nearest health centre in Dwanga, Malawi. The only way to get there is either by bicycle or walking for four hours. The long walk means that routine healthcare is out of reach for Rhoda and her family. She will inevitably miss doctor’s appointments, some of which… Read more →←
For too many children, the places where they should feel safe—at home, at school, in their communities—are the first and most frequent sites of violence. The latest data presented in UNICEF’s A Familiar Face shows, for example, that nearly 300 million children between the ages of 2 and 4 experience violent discipline by their… Read more →←
It is estimated that a total of 264 million primary and secondary school-age children are out of school globally, and it is a commonly accepted notion that children with disabilities especially in developing countries and conflict zones tend not to attend school. However, it is not known if children with disabilities are a sizable share… Read more →←
Poverty estimates are not frequently made, nor easy to access in the Arab States. Continued political instability combined with frequent humanitarian crises make it difficult to have timely and reliable estimates of poverty for many countries in the region, while others, such as the Gulf countries, simply do not measure child poverty at… Read more →←