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Producing disability–inclusive data: Why it matters and what it takes

The publication highlights the importance of collecting data that fully includes people with disabilities. It explains how individuals with disabilities are often excluded from data collection and analysis, rendering them invisible in crucial decisions that affect their lives. This invisibility often leads to thei...

Addressing the Gaps: Ensuring every child in Thailand has an equal chance to thrive

The report provides in-depth analysis and recommendations in 12 equity priorities: Nutrition, breastfeeding, immunization, early childhood development, care and parenting, children living apart from their parents, school attendance, foundational learning, child discipline, adolescent birth rate, child marriage, so...

27 September 2023

New National Statistics Office and UNICEF study reveals children in Thailand's southern provinces lag in immunization, nutrition and learning

SONGKHLA, Thailand, 27 September 2023 – While progress has been made across many areas of child health and well-being in Thailand, children living in the southern region continue to face critical disadvantages and are lagging behind their peers in areas including nutrition, immunization, school attendance and lear...

Thailand Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2022

Since its inception in the mid-1990s, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys programme, known as MICS, has become the largest source of statistically sound and internationally comparable data on children and women worldwide. MICS is an integral part of plans and policies of many governments around the world, and a...

Prevention and response to violence against children

The Child Protection Joint Initiatives in Health Region 8 were implemented by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and UNICEF Thailand from March 2018 to December 2022. This evaluation report, conducted between November 2022 and January 2023, examined these initiatives using the OECD-DAC evaluation criteria to ass...

New UNICEF survey shows positive news on Thailand's socio-economic recovery from COVID-19, but poor families continue to face challenges

BANGKOK, 24 May 2023 – A UNICEF survey released earlier this week reveals that households in Thailand are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic with significant improvements in jobs and income across all population groups. However, challenges remain in areas of childcare, household debt, and savings, primarily aff...

23 February 2023

UNICEF Thailand's Seven Asks for the General Elections

As citizens of Thailand prepare to exercise their right to vote, UNICEF Thailand's Seven Asks for the General Elections calls on political parties to prioritise child-related issues in their agendas. The seven asks address critical issues that affect the future of Thailand's 13.7 million children, including access...

16 December 2022

Country-led formative evaluation of the first 1,000 days programme in Thailand

This report describes the result of a country-led formative evaluation of the First 1,000 Days programme, a five- year programme implemented between 2018-2023 by the Department of Health (DOH) of the Royal Thai Government’s Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), with the goal to promote maternal health and child growth...

14 December 2022

Sustainable financing of social protection in Thailand

This working paper aims to demonstrate that Thailand has sufficient public spending capacity to maintain the provision of social protection in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic by forecasting the country’s fiscal space under different economic growth scenarios. The analysis demonstrates that Thailand has sufficie...

21 February 2022

Disrupting Harm Report in Thailand

BREAKING –  Online sexual abuse and exploitation of children in Thailand is underreported, with only 1- 3% of children disclosing experience told the police. “The interview [about my experience of online sexual abuse] took place in the police station at the front desk to receive reports; there were around 10 ...

25 January 2022

Rapid assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ANC and Well Child clinic in Thailand

The Bureau of Nutrition and the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) cluster of the Department of Health (DOH) Ministry of Public Health, in collaboration with UNICEF Thailand, conducted a rapid assessment on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antenatal Care Clinic (ANC) and Well Child Clinic (WCC) services, togeth...

01 December 2021

UNICEF's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thailand

UNICEF is working to ensure that children and young people do not suffer the long term effects of this crisis by working with partners in the public and private sectors, in civil society, and with children and young people themselves, to ensure that the many challengers are addressed with sustainable solutions. Wh...