Nigeria

Emergency response

A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in northeast Nigeria, where violence and destruction have caused huge population displacements, left hundreds of thousands of children trapped in areas that are inaccessible to humanitarian assistance because of insecurity, and led to a dramatic increase in malnutrition. Read more:

>> Lake Chad conflict: alarming surge in number of children used in Boko Haram bomb attacks this year – UNICEF

>> ‘In this crisis sometimes education really is the frontline’

>> Latest Humanitarian Situation Report

Recent news

On Nigerian Children’s Day, UNICEF calls for an end to violence against children and adoption of Child Rights Acts in all states

Solar Refrigerators Boost Access to Vaccines in Gombe Health Clinics, Northeast Nigeria

UNICEF statement on release of Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram

Water, sanitation and hygiene

>> Provision of water by the EU helps more children to learn at a school in northern Nigeria

>> In Plateau State, EU-funded water, sanitation and hygiene interventions improve living conditions

>> A local leader is converted from resisting change to leading the charge for a cleaner community

>> Photo essay: European Union projects improve lives

  

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What we do

UNICEF aims to accelerate the realization of the rights of all children and women to survival, development, protection and participation. Promotes efforts to reduce infant, child and maternal mortality; expand access to quality basic education; and strengthen social and child protection systems, using a rights-based and gender-sensitive approach.

New publications

Evaluation of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week in Nigeria

Evaluability Assessment of UNICEF Nigeria Training Investments Report

Evaluability Assessment Report of UNICEF Nigeria/s Education Project Phase 3 Cash Transfer Programme in Niger and Sokoto States