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Innovation for children

Margaret Agyapong, (6) in the bedroom where she and her siblings sleep under a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net (LLI) in the village of Ankaase in the Western Region of Ghana, in October 2012.

Influencing markets

Access to affordable and fit-for-purpose products from sustainable markets is essential for the survival and development of children.

Sitting beside a caregiver, young boy with a handheld device that measures oxygen saturation attached to his index finger.

Target product profiles (TPPs)

TPPs communicate requirements for products that are not available on the market but that fulfil a priority need.

Children and their teacher waving hands at the playground of their school made out of plastic bricks, in Siansoba, Côte d’Ivoire.

Driving innovation in construction at UNICEF

UNICEF is using innovative construction strategies to address some of the world’s most complex humanitarian and development issues.

Pascaline smiles after testing her hearing aids for the first time, speaking easily with her mother.

UNICEF supplies children with life-changing hearing aids

A shipment of 1,200 hearing aids have arrived in Rwanda, the first since this life-changing product was made available through UNICEF for a low cost.

16-year-old Sajad Al-Faraji, who uses a wheelchair, smiles while sitting in a school class in the Heitzing district of Vienna, Austria.

UNICEF to introduce 24 new assistive products

This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, UNICEF announces a new suite of assistive products will be available for procurement.

Dr Priscilla, UNICEF Paediatrician and Health Specialist, checks the pulse of Ebenezer, 3, at a UNICEF-supported health centre, in eastern Ghana.

How most of pneumonia deaths can be prevented

This World Pneumonia Day we look at a new innovative health system strengthening approach that is saving children’s lives in Ghana.

7 children play outside a new High Performance Tent installed in Afghanistan to be used for community based education programmes.

UNICEF High Performance Tent on the path to global scale-up

Experience augmented reality of the High Performance Tent. Afghanistan will be the first country to use the tents for emergency education response.

A health worker at Kolda District Hospital in Senegal cares for an infant who is hooked up to oxygen.

A SPRINT during the pandemic to stop pneumonia

UNICEF Scaling Pneumonia Response Innovations demonstrates key achievements in building stronger health systems to stop children dying from pneumonia.

Za’atari refugee camp, Jordan, December 2020: Aseel, 8, on her wheelchair and her two younger sisters.

Inclusive supplies making a difference for children

This World Disability Day we highlight our work in Assistive Technology and a new momentum to bring inclusive supplies to children worldwide.

Marisela holds her baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Uni of the Mbeya Regional Referral Hospital, in Tanzania, where the child received oxygen support. November 2018.

Oxygen and COVID-19: UNICEF’s rapid, multi-faceted approach

From reaching Peru’s Amazon with oxygen concentrators to bringing liquid oxygen to refugees in Bangladesh, UNICEF is scaling up efforts to save lives.