Publications

The State of the World’s Children 2011: Adolescence – An Age of Opportunity examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulnerabilities of this pivotal stage. The report highlights the singular opportunities that adolescence offers, both for adolescents themselves and for the societies they live in. The accumulated evidence demonstrates that investing in adolescents' second decade is our best hope of breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequity and of laying the foundation for a more peaceful, tolerant and equitable world.

The State of the World’s Children 2011 examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and argues that investing in them now is our best hope of breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequity and laying the foundation for a more peaceful, tolerant and equitable world.

Annual Report 2010 highlights UNICEF’s contributions to achieving the MDGs in 2010 by providing assistance towards improving children’s health, expanding access to quality education and protecting children’s rights in more than 150 countries and territories, including in places of crisis. The report emphasizes how UNICEF is reorienting its programming to more closely target and meet the rights and needs of the most deprived and marginalized children to achieve greater progress with equity.

Today, around the world, there are 5 million young men and women living with HIV. Opportunity in Crisis: Preventing HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood examines the state of the HIV epidemic among young people, highlighting the challenges they face and presenting solutions informed by evidence of what works with different age groups and in different epidemic settings. The report outlines key steps towards building a continuum of HIV prevention that can help keep children HIV-free as they develop into young adults.

Unrestricted Regular Resources (RR) allow UNICEF to support its partners in achieving long-term and sustainable results for children. They enable the organization to invest in innovative programming, to support and enhance ongoing development programmes, and to respond to conflicts or natural disasters. They are also critical to helping promote UNICEF's equity agenda. The Report on Regular Resources 2010 demonstrates the crucial importance of RR in helping the organization achieve its mandate of promoting the health, education, equality and protection of all children.

The Supply Annual Report 2010 supports UNICEF's commitment to transparency, providing many examples of supply, procurement and logistical support at the country level. At the global level, the report highlights achievements in securing decreased prices for vaccines and a more diversified supplier base for ready-to-use therapeutic foods. The report also includes detailed annexes on local and international procurement, listing suppliers, supplier countries and where supplies are used.

The past decade has seen considerable progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the fulfillment of children’s rights to survival, development and protection. But with the MDG deadline only five years away, it is becoming ever clearer that reaching the poorest and most marginalized children is pivotal to the full realization of the goals. Progress for Children: Achieving the MDGs with Equity reports what has been accomplished so far, but it also reveals the glaring disparities that must be eliminated in order to achieve a more equitable world for children.