PublicationsPart of UNICEF East Asia and Pacific's mandate is to initiate or support research on the fulfillment of children's rights and to distribute the analysis as well as children's viewpoints in easy-to-access formats. Here are our latest publications.
Launched: February 2012 The number of institutions and children living in residential care in Cambodia continues to rise. Since 2005, Cambodia has seen a 75% increase in number of residential care facilities for children. Yet in the past five years, 44% of children placed in residential care were brought by their parents. This study looks at why families are choosing to place children in residential care, why the number of facilities continues to grow and what can be done to strengthen families and communities to care for children instead.
The publication is primarily intended to strengthen those partnerships and make them even more effective as we work together to improve children’s lives. It provides valuable information about religious traditions, identifying the diversity of perspectives that often exist even within the same tradition. The guide also includes useful examples of partnering and best practices across a range of programme areas, including child protection, education, health, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS, among others.
Published: January 2012 The report describes the daily situation of some of the world’s most vulnerable children and women in more than 25 countries and territories beset by emergencies and crisis. The chapters include summaries of the key humanitarian challenges and the results of the organization’s interventions in 2011, as well as plans and associated funding requests for the coming year.
Published: December 2011 The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey was conducted to assess implementation of the abovementioned Law on Statistics, to collect data for assessing the health, education, development, protection and situation of children and women to monitor the progress on achieving the goals of the implementation of the child protection related international agreements, the National Program and Millennium Development goals, and to revise the data from the previous survey (done in 2005).
Published: November 2011
Published: November 2011 The Indonesia study explored children’s vulnerabilities to climate change and disaster impacts, with a focus on children’s health and nutrition and migration patterns affecting children.
Pacific Islanders have historically managed living with extreme weather. But changing climatic conditions due to human-induced influences appear certain to change their worlds. In fact, changes are already evident. In a world that is largely struggling with rapid urbanization, lack of sanitation infrastructure, scarce water resources and extensive poverty, the changes to come will continue making tough conditions tougher.
Published: November 2011 The predicted effects of climate change on Mongolia include an increased frequency of extreme weather and environmental hazards, such as flash floods, droughts, dust and snowstorms, torrential rains, heat waves and wild fires as well as unfavourable changes in precipitation patterns, the shifting in ecological zones and desertification.
Published: October 2011 This publication is in the form of an innovative electronic Flip Book covering the development of youth policy (including case studies) from countries around the Asia-Pacific region. Click to read.
Adolescence is a challenging and vulnerable phase of life - a transition from childhood to adulthood. Adolescents also face numerous global and local challenges both today and future, among them the current economic turmoil, climate change and environmental degradation, explosive urbanisation and migration. Learn how to help them face the challenges, click to read the report.
on 12 May 2008, the most devastating natural disaster in China in decades struck the country’s southwestern Sichuan Province. The 8.0-magnitude earthquake affected the lives of millions of people, killing 88,000, injuring 400,000 and leaving 5 million homeless. On this third anniversary, UNICEF remembers what was lost three years ago, celebrates what has been achieved since, and reaffirms our commitment to children and women in the Sichuan earthquake zone. Click to read the report.
The High Level Meeting on Cooperation for Child Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region was held in Beijing, China in November 2010. The Meeting aimed to advance key issues surrounding the realization of child rights in the region through greater South-South cooperation. The 28 participating countries agreed to increase cooperation to ensure practical measures for child-friendly disaster risk reduction were integrated into community-based efforts. They also agreed that building and strengthening national child protection systems was an area where there was considerable scope to learn from each other. Click to read the full report.
Existing studies suggest that exposing a child to violent discipline has harmful consequences for the victim as well as the society in which he or she lives. They show that even mild forms of physical discipline are harmful to children, hindering their cognitive capacity and increasing the proclivity for future violent acts. Violent psychological discipline – including ridicule, threats and intimidation – has also been shown to have a range of negative behavioural impacts in childhood and beyond. Click to read.
The Regional Analysis Report (RAR) 2010 examines UNICEF's programme and vision for children in the region.. The Report reviews trends and progress on issues that affect children and women and assesses the results achieved by the Regional Office during the year in support of country level activities and regional initiatives. Together with Country Office Annual Reports, the RAR serves as a key component of UNICEF's results based management and provides a perspective on priorities for children in the region." Click to read. Country Office Annual Report 2010 UNICEF Lao PDR In 2010, UNICEF contributed to the emergence of a more positive environment for children's rights in Lao PDR, and particularly those of the poorest and most socially-excluded children and their families. Click to read.
The State of the World's Children 2011 invited adult and adolescent contributors from a variety of stakeholder groups to give their perspectives on the distinct challenges adolescents face today in protection, education, health and participation. This report catalogues, in heart-wrenching detail, the array of dangers adolescents face: the injuries that kill 400,000 of them each year; early pregnancy and childbirth, a primary cause of death for teenage girls; the pressures that keep 70 million adolescents out of school; exploitation, violent conflict and the worst kind of abuse at the hands of adults. Click to read the report and its executive summary.
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