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Job Number: 520883 |  Vacancy Link Locations: Europe and Central Asia Region: Bulgaria Work Type: Consultancy   UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for…

BRUSSELS - Children and young people aged 10 and above in over 20 European countries are most worried about not finding a job according to the findings of the ‘Europe Kids Want’ online survey released by UNICEF and Eurochild.  Children from Italy, Serbia, Spain, Ireland and Bulgaria fear the most about not finding a job.  Violence and climate…

UNICEF Bulgaria and the State Agency for Child Protection, in partnership with the Committee on Children, Youth and Sports Matters of the 44th National Assembly, celebrated the 29th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The event took place in the National Assembly with the participation of Mr.…

Voices of Children is a national representative survey carried out by Market LINKS Agency. The survey was commissioned by UNICEF Bulgaria. The objective is to study the attitudes of children and young people in Bulgaria to a wide range of topics: how happy they are, how they feel at school and at home, to what extent they are integrated in today’s…

Children and young people are fully fledged stakeholders in Europe’s future. They represent a key constituency not only because they have more at stake when it comes to decisions on their future, but also because they are strongly committed to and understand the values underpinning European integration. As European leaders debate the future of…

National context and key trends, Bulgaria is an upper-middle-income country and an EU (European Union) member state since 2007. Its population as of the end of 2016 is 7,101,859 people, of which children aged 0-17 (completed years) are 1,194,454, or 16.8% of the country’s population. Data of the latest census (2011) indicate that the main ethnic groups are: Bulgarians 84.8%,…, Health and development, Infant mortality rate (6.5 per 1,000 live births in 2016) is twice higher than the European Union average; 9.5 per cent of live births are from adolescent girls and young women aged below 20; 13% of all births annually are to women without health insurance and limited access to health care; Many children do not receive nurturing care during the…, Education, Fewer than 80 per cent of children aged 3 to 4 attend kindergartens; Each year, about 1,000 school-age children do not enroll in school; 45 per cent of Roma children do not attend preschool and 15 per cent do not attend school; It is estimated that about 14,000 children with disabilities are out of school and kindergarten., Family Separation, Around 2,000 children are separated from their families each year; More than 1,000 children continue to live in institutions; Over 11 000 children live separated from their families., Violence against children:, On average, over 3,500 reports of violence against children are received each year and around 1,000 actual cases are opened after investigation; 68% of parents accept the use of “reasonable violence” as a means of discipline; Over 4 200 incidents of violence against children happen every year in schools., Children participants in legal proceedings:, Annually, about 5,000 children are investigated for committing various crimes in Bulgaria; Around 200 children are placed in closed institutions where they are deprived of freedom; On average, around 3500 children become victims of various crimes each year and participate in criminal proceedings that are not adapted to their rights and needs;…, Children on the move, Almost 100 percent of unaccompanied children intercepted by the police are attached to unrelated adults or recorded as adults and detained, in breach of the best interest of the child principle and the legal ban on detention, introduced in December 2017. All accompanied children – a total of more than 250 in 2017 and the first three months of 2018…

The challenge, For every adolescent participation The right of the child to be heard, embodied in art. 12 of the UN Convention on the right of the child provides that every child shall be afforded the right to be heard in matters affecting her or him including in any judicial or administrative proceedings, and for those views to be given due weight. Child…, See the programme in action, Recommendations-results-conclusions-My-voice-matters-EN.pdf Child friendly report from the campaign "My Voice Matters" - conclusions and recommendations My_voice_matters-a-full-report-EN-2016.pdf Consultation with children in relation to the update of the National strategy for the child 2008-2018 General-Comment-12_EN.pdf Convention on the right…, The solution, UNICEF Bulgaria works in partnership with children and young people with the government, local authorities, schools and universities, civil society and private sector for ensuring the right to participation of all children and young people. Our activities aimed at: Raising public awareness and understanding of the importance of child participation…

Campaign on adolescence - the age of opportunities, Watch a record  of the Conference on adolescence that was livestreamed on Facebook:  First part  and  Second part .   Sofia, 20 September 2017: UNICEF Bulgaria launches a long-term initiative to direct public attention to children in adolescence – as this is an age of turbulent development associated with challenges, but also with exclusive…

The National Television Bulgaria ON AIR and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) launch a long-term campaign "My voice matters". Its aim is to promote the right of children to express voluntary, freely and safely their views on all matters that affect them directly or indirectly, and to set the agenda for ethical coverage of children in…