In sub-Saharan Africa, the number of pregnant women living with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) has almost tripled over the last decade. But children living with HIV are being left behind. How can we do a better job providing the life-saving interventions they need and reaching every woman and child? Since 2010, we have seen… Read more →←
Topic: SDGs
In this blog, Anja Nielsen and Alexander Carnwath from UNICEF UK explore how WASH programming supports girls’ education in fragile and conflict-affected states. Ensuring no child is excluded on the basis of gender is a priority identified in UNICEF’s new Education Strategy. To reach this goal, a commitment to strong… Read more →←
Information and communication technology (ICT) touches virtually every aspect of modern life – from everyday tasks such as sending out emails and making phone calls to using programming languages in the workplace. It is a driver of change in the global economy, creating opportunities for innovation, new products and entrepreneurship.… Read more →←
Early learning provides tremendous lifelong advantages to children both in terms of their future education and life skills. Enrolling early in age-appropriate programmes allows children to learn at the right age and to be prepared for moving forward to higher levels of education. In this context, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)… Read more →←
As access to education increases around the world, so does the concern about schools providing the necessary support to children with disabilities. Oftentimes unaccommodating environments for students with functional difficulties prevent them from making the most of their educations. A new questionnaire — the Child… Read more →←
Getting the ‘development’ right in sport for development (S4D) means that on the pitch, disabilities are dissolved into strengths. It means that traditional ‘no girls allowed’ attitudes are torn away. It means that children’s voices are valued in both the planning and the playing, and real efforts are made to protect children… Read more →←
An interviewer from the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico asks the mother of 4-year-old Tonatiuh if he can jump up and land with both feet on the ground. Then the mother is asked if Tonatiuh can count to ten, build a tower of three blocks that stands on its own, write his own name and if he gets along well with other… 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 →←
The League Table presented in UNICEF’s latest Innocenti Report Card 14, Building the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries, clearly shows which high-income countries are doing well, and which are doing poorly, in terms of achieving outcomes for their children as broadly defined in the Sustainable… Read more →←
Special note: Many will be unaccustomed to detailed UNICEF reporting on child and adolescent mental health issues. The latest edition of Innocenti Report Card on children in high income countries seeks to assess the status of 41 OECD and EU countries relative to the SDGs. In searching for relevant, contextually appropriate means for… Read more →←
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