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Child protection

22 October 2021

UNICEF concern for children in Eswatini as security situation deteriorates amid civil unrest

From Mohamed M. Fall, UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa

Warda Hassan Mahmud, a UNICEF-supported councillor, speaks to a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Hargeisa, Somaliland on 1st February 2021.

Promising practices to end child marriage, FGM

Celebrating the Day of the African Child 2021

An adolescent girl stands next to a tree, in the Mutuini area of the Dagoretti division of Nairobi, Kenya.

C4D Works! Kenya

Spot it! Stop it! Changing attitudes and behaviours related to violence against children

(PDF, 2,98 MB)

Women and children gather water from a fresh spring outside Eruth Village, on Turkana’s border with South Sudan.

Strengthening the Child Protection System

To End Violence Against Children in Eastern and Southern Africa

(PDF, 10,71 MB)

A woman holds a young child.

Multi-sectoral approaches to addressing harmful practices

A programme brief

(PDF, 6,12 MB)

Women and children

Addressing child protection concerns in ESA

Case studies of promising practices from across the region

(PDF, 10,30 MB) (PDF, 1,11 MB) (PDF, 5,31 MB) (PDF, 3,51 MB)

UNICEF-supported social worker, Hibo Mohamed Suleiman, addresses children in Hargeisa, Somaliland on the 8th February 2021.

Advocacy and innovation in social service provision in ESA

‘I am because we are’ - Strengthening social solidarity and global connectedness

UNICEF-supported social worker, Hibo Mohamed Suleiman, provides counselling to a child in Hargeisa, Somaliland

Recognizing the essential role of social service workforce

In March and everyday

Adolescent girl

Urgent action needed to meet SDG to end child marriage

Join opinion editorial by UNFPA and UNICEF

A line of girls sitting next to each other; view of the hands on laps only

28 February 2021

The Medicalization of FGM

In Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea

(PDF, 2,78 MB)