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Progress towards UNICEF South Asia’s Headline and Complementary Results (2018–2021)
Today, one out of three people living in South Asia is a child. Children younger than 18 account for about 616 million of the region’s growing population of 1.86 billion. This update report on the UNICEF South Asia regional programmatic priorities, the Regional Headline and Complementary Results presents key avail...
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Danger in the air
While all children are vulnerable to air pollution, the youngest children are most at risk. New UNICEF analysis focusing on very young children finds that almost 17 million babies (children under the age of one) live in some of the most severely affected regions of the world, where outdoor air pollution is at leas...
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Research and Reports
We have learned through experience that problems that go unmeasured often go unsolved. Our extensive network and field presence in South Asia connect you to resources on health, nutrition, education, child protection, water sanitation and hygiene, adolescent development and participation, gender equality, social p...
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UNICEF report: Over half a billion ‘uncounted’ children live in countries unable to measure SDG progress
NEW YORK, 7 MARCH 2018 , – Early assessment of progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals confirms an alarming lack of data in 64 countries, as well as insufficient progress toward the SDGs for another 37 countries where the data can be tracked. The UNICEF report, Progress for Children in the SD...
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South Asia Health Atlas provides evidence on the urgency to reach the most disadvantaged children in the region
KATHMANDU, 24 November 2016, – UNICEF in South Asia is releasing a new South Asia Health Atlas to highlight the importance of two major health problems: tackling newborn deaths and ensuring children are fully immunised in the region. Using the relatively under-used, innovative technique of ring mapping, the Atlas shows deprivations and underlying contributing factors of…
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South Asia Health Atlas 2016
The regional maps included in the South Asia Health Atlas show the big problems and the differences between nations. South-South cooperation is increasingly important and allows cross-country learning about successes in South Asia. Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan have made remarkable progress in immunisation given t...
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Mapping of child marriage initiatives in South Asia
The UNFPA-UNICEF report lays out significant pieces of work that contribute to ending child marriage in eight countries of South Asia. It gives an overview of major regional initiatives, covers key stakeholders initiatives by country, and includes policies, key studies, and national plans for a better understandin...
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Educate all girls and boys in South Asia
The South Asia Out-of-School Children Initiative (OOSCI) is part of the global initiative launched by UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in 2010. The goal of the initiative is to make significant and sustained reduction in the number of out-of-school children around the world by 1) developing com...