Back in my teen years, I would roll my eyes every time my grandmother would bestow on her prophetic advice on me. Granted, her advice would make any teenager LOL in disbelief: from how to avoid wrinkles by laughing less to tips about sitting up straight on a soft sofa. Listening is an art and the interwebs is full of zen quotes about its… Read more →←
Topic: Partners government
The original abstract was published on USAID’s mHealth Compendium, Fifth Edition. To read the full report, click here. Severe shortages of qualified health workers and poor communication and coordination among those on the front lines have exacerbated the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa.These challenges were… Read more →←
Originally published on 8 June, 2015 on End Polio | Pakistan. Written by Sergiy Prokhorov. Getting vaccines to children from where they are produced, to rural Pakistan, unspoiled, is possibly one of the most amazing accomplishments in modern public health that you have never heard about. This is called the “cold chain,” and to… Read more →←
It has been great working with colleagues in six offices across two UNICEF regions to develop an innovative risk assessment tool which draws upon UNICEF’s unique collection of child data. The tool acts as a bridge between development and humanitarian action by combining information about natural hazards and climate change with… Read more →←
As an organization, we have moved from programmes designed to address specific issues affecting children with very detailed upfront planning and precise execution to ones that are more complex in terms of social, political and environmental impacts. While this kind of planning methodologies work well in some scenarios, they often… Read more →←
I am so proud and excited to share news about the first textbook in audio/visual format that has been produced in Montenegro. A proud moment for UNICEF and a great leap for children with disabilities worldwide. The initiative started in 2013 following a massive awareness raising campaign on inclusion of children with disabilities… Read more →←
One of the biggest reasons for the failure of the QOWA project was a lack of understanding of the rapidly changing nature of “situation on the ground” in countries that the project was going to be deployed. This lack of understanding was particularly due to a lack of local team involvement during planning processes. UNICEF has since… Read more →←
It’s not easy for people to talk about failures, especially their own. At the Innovation Unit, we’ve started the conversation around failures by hosting the second FailFare – Fail to Scale – about a month ago. Following on that success, we determined to publicly document failures and facilitate learning from failures. Why not… Read more →←
This is the first in a series of posts on designing innovative education solutions in Sudan, based on a mission that took place from September 3 to 23, and ongoing work. This series is by Panthea Lee, a consultant for UNICEF and principal at the service design firm Reboot. Some of the earlier posts are being published retroactively,… Read more →←
