United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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| Name | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) |
|---|---|
| Geographic Scope | Developing Countries |
| Subject Focus/Expertise | Children and Women |
| Contact | Regional Office for Europe, CEE, CIS,
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Description
UNICEF was established on 11 December 1946 by the United Nations to meet the emergency needs of children in post-war Europe and China. Its full name was the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. In 1950, its mandate was broadened to address the long-term needs of children and women in developing countries everywhere. UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations system in 1953, when its name was shortened to the United Nations Children's Fund. However, UNICEF retained its original acronym. UNICEF works in 191 countries through country programmes and National Committees.
UNICEF strongly condemns that without WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), sustainable development is impossible. Without WASH, children – and particularly girls – are denied their right to education because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities. Women are forced to spend large parts of their day fetching water. UNICEF works in more than 90 countries around the world to improve water supplies and sanitation facilities in schools and communities, and to promote safe hygiene practices. All UNICEF WASH programmes are designed to contribute to the Millennium Development Goal for water and sanitation: to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation. UNICEF uses a human rights based approach (HRBA) and works in partnership with communities – especially women and children – in planning, implementing and maintaining water and sanitation systems.
See Also
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation
Mission/Mandate
UNICEF believes that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind – to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path. We believe that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity.
UNICEF's mission in the area of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is to contribute to the realization of children’s rights to survival and development through promotion of the sector and support to national programmes that increase equitable and sustainable access to, and use of, safe water and basic sanitation services, and promote improved hygiene.
Information Resources/Tools/Materials
Data and statistics
- Water and Sanitation Country profile pages - provide important sector-related statistics in some of the countries in which UNICEF supports water and sanitation programmes.
- Water Statistics
- Sanitation Statistics
- Children and water global statistics
Publications
- UNICEF and WHO, Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation, a 2008 MDG Assessment Report
- Progress in Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation (2008 JMP report) - This is the latest publication by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. The report details global progress towards the MDG target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015.
- Towards Effective Programming for WASH in Schools: A manual on scaling up programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene in schools (2007) - This 2007 UNICEF – IRC joint publication is an update of the 1998 manual on water, sanitation and hygiene education in schools. It describes many of the elements needed for scaling up programmes in schools while ensuring quality and sustainability. The manual is intended as a resource for government, UNICEF, NGOs and other stakeholders involved in programming for WASH in schools.
- UNICEF Hanbook on Water Quality - This handbook is a comprehensive new tool to help UNICEF and its partners meet the responsibility of protecting water sources and mitigating quality problems. The handbook provides an introduction to all aspects of water quality, with a particular focus on the areas most relevant to professionals working in developing countries. It covers the effects of poor water quality, quality monitoring, the protection of water supplies, methods for improving water quality, and building awareness and capacity related to water quality. Finally, the handbook provides an extensive set of links to key water quality references and resources.
- Sanitation and hygiene promotion: programming guidance - This document is about setting in place a process whereby people (women, children and men) effect and sustain a hygienic and healthy environment for themselves. It talks about developing a programme for more effective investment in sanitation and hygiene promotion. It is not about developing projects and it does not give blue-print solutions for project-level interventions. Rather it lays out a process for long-term change which may encompass institutional transformation of the policy and organizational arrangements for provision of goods and services.
- UNICEF Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy
- Sanitation for All: Promoting dignity and human rights - The UNICEF sanitation brochure is a tool for generating new sanitation and hygiene policy and programme actions at country, regional and international levels.
- Water Handbook - A comprehensive review and guide on procedures, methodologies and technologies for water programmes.
- Sanitation Handbook - The manual—first in the Technical Guidelines series—provides tools to support national and local initiatives for improved sanitation programming.
Click Here for all UNICEF publications related to water, sanitation and hyiene (WASH).
Work on the ground
Working directly with community-based organizations and communities and families themselves, via a bottom-up approach.
- UNICEF Tap Project - was launched during World Water Week called the Tap Project, a campaign that celebrates the clean and accessible tap water available as an every day privilege to millions, while helping UNICEF provide safe drinking water to children around the world. Beginning Sunday, March 16 through Saturday, March 22, 2008, restaurants invited their customers to donate a minimum of $1 or more, for the tap water they would normally get for free. For every dollar raised, a child will have clean drinking water for 40 days.
- Learning from Experience: Water and Environmental Sanitation in India - Reports from an evaluation on UNICEF's longest running programme of support (30 years) for water, sanitation and hygiene in India.
- UNICEF-Eden Springs 'Gardo' Rural Water Project in Somalia - aims to bring clean, disease free water to the people of this particular region of Somalia.
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