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Mongolia Allocates over MNT 133 Billion for Improved Child Nutrition
UNICEF Mongolia has been collaborating to support the Government of Mongolia to enhance child-focused budget planning and social service delivery for children and households. This commitment includes a substantial increase in funding to address pressing issues related to child health, nutrition and safety. The Ministry of Finance has allocated an…, Key Challenges, Recent surveys and studies underscore the urgent need for improved access to safe d...
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Social Indicator Sample Survey - 2023
As a per the Law on Statistics of Mongolia, the National Statistics Office (NSO) of Mongolia has successfully conducted the Social Indicator Sample Survey (SISS) in 2023 with technical, financial and methodological support from the Government of Mongolia, UNICEF and UNFPA. It is special that NSO employed the guide...
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Munkhtuul Batbaatar
tuul UNICEF Mongolia Ms. Munkhtuul joined UNICEF in 2023. Prior to this, she worked as a Director-General of the Finance and economics department of the Ministry of Health of Mongolia. She holds a master’s degree in public finance and a bachelor’s degree in management, both from the Eastern Mediterranean University of Cyprus. Image release –…
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Monitoring and evaluation for equitable policymaking
This policy brief makes the case for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practices that are both inclusive and considerate of equity-constraining factors, with the purpose of generating evidence to support equitable policymaking. The concept of equity is implicit but foundational to both international and Mongolia...
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Half a billion US dollars leveraged for children in Mongolia during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nearly all (96.6%) children of Mongolia are benefiting from the country’s flagship Child Money Programme (CMP), which is universal for eligible children to receive MNT 20,000 (≈USD 7) a month. In response to COVID -19, the Government of Mongolia has made an imperative decision to top-up the monthly child benefit ...
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Universal child benefits
Children are twice as likely to live in poverty as adults, and a staggering 385 million children, or one in five, are struggling to survive on less than US$1.90 a day. Poverty is about more than income, and over 660 million children are estimated to be living in multidimensionally poor households, again with pover...