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FunDoo: Train for life, one skill at a time
FunDoo is a digital life coach equipping young people with 21st century and employability skills, and preparing them for their future. By 2030, about 825 million children are expected to leave school without basic secondary-level skills. With a prevailing global skills shortage, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic a...
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Six ways UNICEF is innovating to respond to the pandemic and build stronger health systems
COVID-19 wrought havoc globally. Health systems were overwhelmed, with many patients unable to access the life-saving medical care, oxygen therapy and vaccines they needed. In response, UNICEF worked to rapidly find and roll out innovative solutions – not only to respond to the current crisis, but also to stren...
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Oxygen System Planning Tool
The Oxygen System Planning Tool (OSPT) is an excel-based, customizable tool that can be used to plan oxygen delivery systems from source to patient. This tool can be used to support high-level healthcare budgeting and planning needs related to oxygen, including health and procurement specialists and oxygen technology stakeholders. The tool uses…, Subscribe for updates and support , UNICEF regularly updates and improves the Oxygen System Plannin...
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Health Emergency Facility
The challenge, In recent years, multiple crises have, quickly overwhelmed health care systems,, leaving them unable to cope with the sudden surges in patients, let alone provide essential health services. In countries where health systems are already fragile, the rapid escalation of an infectious disease outbreak ...
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Oxygen Plant-in-a-Box
The challenge, Access to oxygen can be the difference between life and death for patients with severe COVID-19. It is also a critical treatment for children with pneumonia, which remains the leading infectious killer of children under 5 years, claiming over 800,000 lives every year . The COVID-19 pandemic has turn...
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Children’s masks
The challenge, To limit the transmission of the COVID-19 disease, many governments are requiring children over 12 to wear masks in schools. Throughout 2020 more than 50 countries have made mask-wearing upon leaving home compulsory, and the policy landscape shifts depending on the need in a given place. At the same...
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Mobilizing Youth as Volunteer Partners
Innovation starts at the designing stage At the beginning of 2018, UNICEF launched a Global Volunteer Initiative (GVI) to support countries in designing context-driven volunteering strategies. With punctual experiences working with group of students, UNICEF Nicaragua decided to be part of this initiative and seize...
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Effects of Physical Distancing Measures
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an extraordinary challenge to the world, our societies, health care systems, and economies. Currently the virus has been confirmed in more than 200 countries and territories. In this context, many countries are using physical distancing policies (from school closures to travel restric...
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U-Report – COVID-19 outbreak response
In February 2020 the U-Report for Humanitarian Action initiative, a joint effort of Office of Innovation , Programme division , Communication for development and Office of Emergency programmes developed a U-Report Information chatbot to support COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE). As of , 2...