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A photograph of Kingston schoolgirls

Lifelong learning

Quality education for all children

Series of consultations by UNICEF and NSSC begins on World Children’s Day, November 20

UNICEF & NSSC engage students to ‘Reimagine Education’

Series of consultations begins on World Children’s Day, November 20

Students sit under a tree to use the internet while observing the recommended social distance at Little Bay Primary and Infant school. On Monday, September 7,2020. Little Bay is a mainly fishing community located in the parish of Westmoreland, the western end of the island of Jamaica. An online programme for teachers supported by UNICEF aims to improve remote learning best practices on the island, where schools were closed due to COVID-19. The pandemic put the spotlight on inequities in the local education

Education on hold

Across the region, the prolonged closure of schools means that 137 million boys and girls continue to miss out on their education

Photograph of students at Lethe Primary School

Children in Jamaica: Overview 2019

Every child has an equitable chance in life.

Photograph of children attending an #ENDviolence Townhall with UNICEF, the Office of the Children's Advocate and Talk Up Yout

Stories from Jamaica

Stories about children, their families and the people we work with in Jamaica

Photograph of a teacher leading a class discussion in a classroom at Drew Avenue Primary School in Kingston. UNICEF provided the school with textbooks and other supplies

Survival: Staying Schooled in Rural Jamaica

Improving secondary attendance, retention and re-integration

Photograph of Rhyim Roach walks to school at Holy Family Primary in Parade Gardens, Kingston, a school supported by UNICEF partner Fight for Peace. He has since graduated and entered high school.

Fiscal Expenditure on Services for Children in Jamaica

This study has been commissioned by the Government of Jamaica and UNICEF.

Schoolchildren in Jamaica

Investigating the Prevalence and Impact of Peer Abuse

Aimed at identifying and assessing the intervening variables that contribute to bullying.

The Jamaica School Readiness Assessment

The Jamaica School Readiness Assessment

Results of a review of children and adolescents with disabilities living in institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Positive discipline

A resource guide on positive disciplinary practices

Tips to promote positive discipline