Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World examines the situation of children growing up in urban settings and finds that denials of children’s rights to survival, health, nutrition, education and protection are widespread. It sheds light on these urban inequities and suggests ways to ensure that urban childhoods are safe, healthy, participatory and fulfilling.
The Humanitarian Action for Children 2012 reports on UNICEF’s timely and effective response to humanitarian crises in 2011. It also details the resources that will be needed to respond to emergencies in more than 25 countries and territories in 2012, in order to meet the needs of vulnerable children and women and to fulfill their rights to health, survival and development.
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 Innocenti Research Centre undertakes original research to improve international understanding of issues relating to children's rights.
Adolescence is a formative period during which children grow into their rightful place as full citizens and agents of change in their own lives and the lives of their societies. Progress for Children: A report card on adolescents provides an overview of the situation of adolescents, including of their vulnerabilities in critical areas. It makes a compelling case for increased efforts in advocacy, programming and policy, and for investment, to ensure the rights of adolescents and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Parents and caregivers play critical roles in determining children’s chances for survival and development, and they can also empower children to become architects of their own lives. Inequities in Early Childhood Development: What the data say provides an overview of childcare practices and aspects of children’s home environments based on data gathered through Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys in select countries. It makes a compelling case for effective action and investment in early childhood development.