Tag: UNICEF

UNICEF and UNFPA renew multi-country initiative to protect millions of girls from child marriage

Stuart Mitchell

A multi-country initiative to end child marriage and help protect the rights of millions of girls worldwide will be renewed for an additional four years, UNICEF and UNFPA announced. By 2023, the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage will reach over 14 million adolescent girls across 12 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia  with direct services. The programme – which first launched in 2016 – also involves families, educators, health providers, governments, and religious and traditional leaders as part of the global effort to end child…

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WHO and UNICEF to partner on pandemic response through COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

Stuart Mitchell

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have announced an agreement to work together on COVID-19 response, through the historic COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund powered by the United Nations Foundation and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund has been set up to facilitate an unprecedented global response by supporting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan. As part of the agreement, an initial portion of the money from the Fund – which currently stands at more than $127 million – will flow to UNICEF for…

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IPA, WHO and UNICEF launch Read the World on International Children’s Book Day to support children and young people in isolation

Stuart Mitchell

Much-loved children’s authors are joining an initiative to read extracts of their books to millions of children and young people currently living in isolation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the World is a collaboration between the International Publishers Association (IPA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. It kicked off on the 2 April, on International Children’s Book Day, at 15.00 with Italian author Elisabetta Dami, creator of the popular character Geronimo Stilton. “These are uncharted waters for us all, and the psycho-social effects of prolonged isolation and social distancing…

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Global Partnership for Education announces US $8.8 million in funding to help UNICEF with COVID-19 response

Stuart Mitchell

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) announced today a US $8.8 million contribution to UNICEF to help children and young people in 87 developing countries access learning opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nationwide school closures in 156 countries have already disrupted learning and access to vital services for more than eight out of ten children and young people. “There is an urgent need to invest now in education systems to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children in developing countries. These funds are an initial step to kick-start…

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AstraZeneca Young Health Programme to partner with UNICEF to prevent non-communicable diseases among young people

Stuart Mitchell

AstraZeneca has announced that it will support UNICEF with a $12.5 million grant to support programming which will reach more than five million young people, train 1,000 youth advocates, and positively shape public policy around the world, over the next six years. The announcement follows AstraZeneca’s decision in October 2019 to continue to fund its Young Health Programme to 2025 with an overall commitment of $35m (£28m). The AstraZeneca Young Health Programme will work with UNICEF and other partners to raise awareness of the risks and effects of non-communicable diseases…

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