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05 December 2024

UNICEF’S Humanitarian Action for Children 2025

At least 51 million children across Eastern and Southern Africa are at the epicenter of multiple crises, including relentless climate shocks, public health emergencies, conflict, displacement and economic impacts. This is a sharp increase of 6 million children in need compared to the previous year, signaling a fur...

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...

Supporting Kinship Care in Zimbabwe

Kinship care involves children who cannot be cared for by parents being looked after by relatives or friends of the family. In Zimbabwe, around a quarter of all children are estimated to be in kinship care. Regional and global guidance state that kinship care should always be explored as the first option when chil...

01 December 2023

Caring for the carers

Ntombikayise, 24, didn’t feel neglected or sad when she learned her HIV status was positive. She’d recently started secondary school when her Mum sat her down and gently explained that they were both living with HIV. “I wasn’t scared because Mum was already on treatment and helping others to accept their status an...

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...

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…

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...

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…

26 January 2023

Zimbabwe Budget Briefs 2022

Budget briefs analyze the size and composition of budget allocations to sectors that matter most for children (e.g. education, health, social protection, water and sanitation) in the current fiscal year as well as offer insights into the efficiency, equity and adequacy of past spending.

01 December 2022

SBC Works! Interfaith dialogue to mobilize faith groups to influence social norms change and promote the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe

Faith leaders are key UNICEF partners that support interventions aiming to address barriers hampering the uptake of health and other essential services, including vaccines. Holding some of the deepest and most trusted relationships with their communities and being recognized as skilled and influential communicator...

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…

26 January 2022

Tropical Storm Ana wreaks havoc for children in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, alerts UNICEF

NAIROBI – Strong winds and heavy rainfall caused by Tropical Storm Ana have disrupted the lives of thousands of children in four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. Latest reports indicate that parts of Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe have been hit by the first seasonal cyclone in the region. Th...