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19 November 2024

2024 World Children’s Day: 7,000 children from Southern Africa lead the call for quality and inclusive education in Africa

VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE, 19 November 2024 – Children from seven countries in Southern Africa met their leaders in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe this weekend to call for improved conditions in education and better protection when schools become unsafe due to conflict or extreme weather. The more than 7,000 children met...
Report
22 November 2023

Violence against Girls, Boys and Women

This publication builds a statistical profile of the intersections of violence against women and violence against children. The lifetime prevalence of forced sex among girls and women varies widely among countries – from 6 to 27 per cent – with a SADC regional average of 17 per cent. Around 120 million children ag...
Press release
20 November 2023

Children and leaders from four Southern African countries renew their commitment to children’s rights

Walvis Bay, 20 November 2023 – The Presidents of Botswana and Namibia, the Vice-President of Zimbabwe, and the Minister Community Development and Social Services of Zambia have joined more than 100 children to mark this year’s World Children’s Day at a summit in Walvis Bay, Namibia. The summit is a moment for children and their countries’ leaders…
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19 November 2023

Sub-regional Call to Action

All children have the right to a quality education, to grow up in a safe and secure environment and to be protected from harm. Children’s rights are human rights, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, yet too many children cannot realize these rights and face exclusion, discrimination, violence a...
Press release
16 November 2023

Southern African children rally for their rights, urging action for equal education, climate, and protection from violence

Walvis Bay, Namibia, 16 November 2023 – Children from Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have voiced the priority issues affecting them and that they want to address to their leaders for action. This call to action emerged from a virtual gathering facilitated by UNICEF in which children and young people discussed topics that have the greatest…
Report
16 January 2023

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on diets, nutrition services & nutrition practices in UNICEF's ESAR

The COVID-19 pandemic and related economic crisis have impacted food systems and delivery of health services with negative consequences to the nutrition of the most vulnerable women and children worldwide. The Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) nutrition section undertook research in 2021 to understand the ...
Press release
20 November 2022

500 Southern African children meet with their Presidents to mark World Children’s Day

Lusaka, 20 November 2022 – The Presidents of Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and the Vice President of Namibia have come together in a summit led by around 500 children to mark World Children’s Day. Under the theme of “A Better Future for Every Child” the event presented a unique opportunity to foster dialogue between children and the highest…
Press release
02 December 2021

Botswana is first country with severe HIV epidemic to reach key milestone in the elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission

Brazzaville, Geneva, Nairobi – Botswana has become the first high-burden country to be certified for achieving an important milestone on the path to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV by the World Health Organization (WHO). High-burden HIV countries are defined as those with more than 2 per cent of pregnant women living with the virus…
Report
30 April 2021

Child Poverty in Botswana (2021)

This National Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (N-MODA) report is the result of joint efforts by the Directorate of Socio-Demographic Statistics of Statistics Botswana and UNICEF Office in Botswana. The report was prepared by Dr. Ibrahim Kasirye, Director Research at the Economic Policy Research C...
Document
16 October 2020

A Spoonful of Shuga: Life and love among young people in Botswana

Based on the award-winning MTV Shuga series, Shuga Radio tackles tough issues facing young people, such as inter-generational sexual partners, condom use, peer pressure and transactional sex. Through stories that resonate with their own life, young people learn about HIV and having mutually respectful relationship...
Article
16 October 2020

A spoonful of Shuga

Dineo, a university student, is in a relationship with Bra King, an older man who gives her cash and gifts but insists on ‘no condom sex.’ She and Q, a fellow student, are in love but she needs to support her family back home. Dineo hears about taking antiretroviral drugs to prevent getting infected with HIV. KayG...
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22 June 2020

Follow-up of cases and their contacts using a COVID-19 Tracker in Botswana

In the fight against COVID-19, data is crucial in understanding caseloads and influencing decisions all over the world. For purposes of planning and adequate response measures, updated data on COVID-19 confirmed and suspected cases, deaths and recoveries, as well as contacts is vital. In a rapidly evolving COVID-19 context, relying solely on paper-based data collection and reporting mechanisms compromises both the quality of the data, and the ava...