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Kachin State
Mobilising states and regions for children
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What we do
Kachin State, in the mountainous north of the country, has a population of 1.64 million.
Since 2011, renewed conflict between the Kachin Independence Army and the Myanmar Armed Forces has hindered progress in service-delivery, and significant new conflict and displacement has been triggered since 1 February 2021.
- In 2020 around 167,000 of people in Kachin continued to need humanitarian support.
- Around 95,400 people are living in camps for the internally displaced.
- Almost 70 per cent of these are women and children.
Approximately 40 per cent of the displaced are in remote locations in the eastern part of the State that are hard to reach, and access has been further severely restricted due to COVID-19.
Key results in 2020
- Humanitarian aid: Integrated packages of WASH, nutrition, child protection and health services reached over 19,500 children in hard-to-reach areas.
- Learning: 10,620 school-aged children were supported to access learning opportunities, including our non-formal education programme.
- Mine-risk education: A scheme to help communities learn how to deal with explosive ordnance left by combatants has reached 20 per cent of the 30,000 target population.
- WASH: To comply with lockdown restrictions, UNICEF developed an online emergency WASH in Schools course in collaboration with the State Department of Education.
