Global Annual Results Reports 2022
Programme results achieved by contributions received from partners
The 2022 Global Annual Results Reports take stock of UNICEF’s results at the global, regional and country levels, based on the goals and cross-cutting priorities of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022-2025.
For an overview of the results within each area, please visit the pages below to download the full reports for a detailed look at the results achieved in 2022.
UNICEF thematic funding
These reports highlight the achievements made possible by the contributions of lightly earmarked global thematic funding received from partners.
Global thematic funding is one of the best ways to achieve impact for children and it gives partners an opportunity to achieve large-scale results in the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022-2025 through flexible, softly earmarked, multi-year funding. It contributes to the UNICEF mandate to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs, and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Thematic funding is the second highest quality funding UNICEF can receive after Core Resources for Results (RR). It facilitates longer-term planning and sustainability and reduces transaction costs, leaving more resources to achieve results for children. In countries affected by humanitarian crises, it also allows for a faster, more agile and cost-effective UNICEF response.
Measuring results
These reports cover health; nutrition; HIV and AIDS; early childhood development; education; child protection; water, sanitation and hygiene; safe and clean environments; social policy and social protection. They also cover UNICEF’s cross-cutting work on gender equality and humanitarian action.
Goal Area 1: Every child, including adolescents, survives and thrives, with access to nutritious diets, quality primary health care, nurturing practices and essential supplies
In 2022, UNICEF continued to support countries to save lives, maintain critical services and continue strengthening the systems that support children’s ability to survive and thrive.
Goal Area 2: Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future
In the context of the transition from a global education emergency towards recovery, UNICEF focused on restoring lost learning for millions of children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and on addressing pre-existing inequities that were exacerbated by the pandemic. UNICEF supported countries to recover these foundational learning losses and advocated with partners to protect and increase equitable financing for education.
Goal Area 3: Every child, including adolescents, is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices
In 2022, UNICEF worked in over 150 countries to scale up sustainable, evidence-based solutions to prevent and respond to violence, exploitation, abuse and harmful practices, as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Goal Area 4: Every child, including adolescents, has access to safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and supplies, and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment
UNICEF works to fulfil the rights of all children in the areas of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); and climate, environment, energy and disaster risk reduction. Good progress was made in each of these areas in 2022, including over 30 million people reached with WASH services in development contexts and over 39 million people reached in humanitarian emergencies, strengthened national WASH systems, and child-sensitive programmes to address climate change in 69 countries.
Goal Area 5: Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty
In 2022, UNICEF’s support to its renewed commitment under Goal Area 5 was dedicated to reducing child poverty and expanding access to inclusive social protection, including in fragile contexts and humanitarian crises, supporting child poverty analysis, social protection system strengthening and inclusiveness, delivery of cash in humanitarian contexts, public finance for children, and local and urban governance programming.
Gender equality
In 2022, the first year of the new UNICEF Gender Action Plan, 2022-2025 (GAP), UNICEF continued to scale up investments in resources, leadership, capacity and accountability to accelerate results for women and girls and ensure an equal future for all girls and boys.
Humanitarian action
Humanitarian needs continued to grow significantly in 2022, with approximately 274 million people requiring assistance because of conflict, climate change, disasters and public health emergencies and their compounding effects. Delivering on its mandate by working with Governments and other partners, UNICEF was able to provide a protective and life-saving response for children in 128 countries faced with 442 new or ongoing humanitarian crises.
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