how unicef is helping uno for overall development
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UNICEF began its mission in 1946 as a relief organization for children after World War II. Its mandate soon expanded to helping children whose lives were at risk in developing countries. Almost 60 years later, UNICEF is more than 7,000 people in 157 countries and territories around the world. Nine of 10 staff members work closely with national and local governments and other partners around the world.
UNICEF’s Priorities are Essential for Development
UNICEF’s work can be grouped into five main strategic areas. They are all interrelated; progress in any one leads to progress in the others.
Together, they make a difference for children by supporting implementation of the Millennium Summit Declaration and the world’s work toward the Goals.
They also ensure that UNICEF contributes effectively to reducing poverty, through advocacy and partnerships that create sustained investments in children’s survival, development and protection.
These strategic areas are:
Young Child Survival and Development: In support of Millennium Goal 4 – reducing child mortality – and Goal 6, malaria control, among others, UNICEF works toward comprehensive child health care in the earliest years, including the antenatal period before birth.
Toward helping young children survive and have a healthy, productive future, UNICEF advocates for and gives financial and technical support to national- and community-based education and intervention programmes on health care and nutrition. Priority areas include immunization, preventing and controlling malaria, controlling and treating diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases, eradicating guinea worm and preventing anaemia.
Health programmes ideally include antenatal care of pregnant women, and neonatal care in the first four weeks after birth, including promoting breastfeeding. UNICEF also shares advocacy, social mobilization, and research work in a supporting role to help other agencies provide emergency obstetrics.
Building upon a decades-long commitment on health, UNICEF provides vaccines to 40 per cent of children in developing countries, and provides technical support on the complicated process of delivering them. Millions are protected from diseases like measles, polio, diphtheria and tuberculosis with vaccines that cost an average of only 50 cents per child. Vaccination programs ideally include supplements of vitamin A and micronutrients that further boost immunity and help prevent malnutrition-related disorders.
UNICEF is also often first on the ground in declared emergencies to deliver these and other life-saving interventions, like fresh water and basic medical supplies.
Along with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF supports local programmes that improve access to basic water and sanitation, which are in turn vital for health, development and education initiatives.
Basic Education and Gender Equality: In support of MDG 2 and 3, UNICEF collaborates with countries, donor governments and other UN agencies to promote, fund and facilitate universal primary education and gender equality.
This includes improving children’s developmental readiness for school, especially for excluded children and among disadvantaged groups, via community-sponsored childhood education and health initiatives.
Finally, UNICEF also delivers school supplies and tents in emergencies as part of its Back-to-School programme, helping children return to a more normal, safe environment and protecting their right to basic education.
HIV/AIDS and Children: This disease crisis brings poverty and social devastation along with death. To combat it – which helps reach MDG 6 -- UNICEF works with nations, non-profit organizations and religious groups, youth organizations and many other partners to organize gender-sensitive prevention education, skills and service campaigns aimed particularly at adolescents.
UNICEF also works via advocacy and community outreach to help governments, communities and families support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
UNICEF also supports programmes that help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and that increase the number and proportion of women and children receiving antiretroviral drugs.
Child Protection: In support of Millennium Summit Declaration Section 6 – Protecting the Vulnerable UNICEF advances protective environments to help prevent and respond to violence, exploitation, abuse and discrimination, and for children made vulnerable by emergencies.
Focus areas include raising government awareness of child protection rights and situation analysis, as well as promoting laws that punish child exploiters. Working through advocacy and its local offices worldwide, UNICEF helps strengthen the resources of schools, communities and families to care for marginalized children, including those orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
UNICEF’s Priorities are Essential for Development
UNICEF’s work can be grouped into five main strategic areas. They are all interrelated; progress in any one leads to progress in the others.
Together, they make a difference for children by supporting implementation of the Millennium Summit Declaration and the world’s work toward the Goals.
They also ensure that UNICEF contributes effectively to reducing poverty, through advocacy and partnerships that create sustained investments in children’s survival, development and protection.
These strategic areas are:
Young Child Survival and Development: In support of Millennium Goal 4 – reducing child mortality – and Goal 6, malaria control, among others, UNICEF works toward comprehensive child health care in the earliest years, including the antenatal period before birth.
Toward helping young children survive and have a healthy, productive future, UNICEF advocates for and gives financial and technical support to national- and community-based education and intervention programmes on health care and nutrition. Priority areas include immunization, preventing and controlling malaria, controlling and treating diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases, eradicating guinea worm and preventing anaemia.
Health programmes ideally include antenatal care of pregnant women, and neonatal care in the first four weeks after birth, including promoting breastfeeding. UNICEF also shares advocacy, social mobilization, and research work in a supporting role to help other agencies provide emergency obstetrics.
Building upon a decades-long commitment on health, UNICEF provides vaccines to 40 per cent of children in developing countries, and provides technical support on the complicated process of delivering them. Millions are protected from diseases like measles, polio, diphtheria and tuberculosis with vaccines that cost an average of only 50 cents per child. Vaccination programs ideally include supplements of vitamin A and micronutrients that further boost immunity and help prevent malnutrition-related disorders.
UNICEF is also often first on the ground in declared emergencies to deliver these and other life-saving interventions, like fresh water and basic medical supplies.
Along with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF supports local programmes that improve access to basic water and sanitation, which are in turn vital for health, development and education initiatives.
Basic Education and Gender Equality: In support of MDG 2 and 3, UNICEF collaborates with countries, donor governments and other UN agencies to promote, fund and facilitate universal primary education and gender equality.
This includes improving children’s developmental readiness for school, especially for excluded children and among disadvantaged groups, via community-sponsored childhood education and health initiatives.
Finally, UNICEF also delivers school supplies and tents in emergencies as part of its Back-to-School programme, helping children return to a more normal, safe environment and protecting their right to basic education.
HIV/AIDS and Children: This disease crisis brings poverty and social devastation along with death. To combat it – which helps reach MDG 6 -- UNICEF works with nations, non-profit organizations and religious groups, youth organizations and many other partners to organize gender-sensitive prevention education, skills and service campaigns aimed particularly at adolescents.
UNICEF also works via advocacy and community outreach to help governments, communities and families support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
UNICEF also supports programmes that help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and that increase the number and proportion of women and children receiving antiretroviral drugs.
Child Protection: In support of Millennium Summit Declaration Section 6 – Protecting the Vulnerable UNICEF advances protective environments to help prevent and respond to violence, exploitation, abuse and discrimination, and for children made vulnerable by emergencies.
Focus areas include raising government awareness of child protection rights and situation analysis, as well as promoting laws that punish child exploiters. Working through advocacy and its local offices worldwide, UNICEF helps strengthen the resources of schools, communities and families to care for marginalized children, including those orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
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