23 June 2024

Social Policy

UNICEF Uzbekistan is committed to ensure that every child in the country has an equitable chance in life through more effective and inclusive social policies. We support the efforts of the government of Uzbekistan to strengthen social protection in normal situations and in times of emergencies, to ensure that ever...
23 June 2024

Social Protection

UNICEF is a key partner of the Uzbekistan government to address social protection challenges for vulnerable group of population, particularly children, adolescents, and their families. Our support encompass such key areas as (1) translating social protection objectives into laws and policies as well as ensuring ad...
22 December 2021

Joint UN-Uzbekistan Achievements in Strengthening the Social Protection System Discussed

TASHKENT, 17 December 2021, – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a meeting for national and international development partners to discuss the achievements of the UN Joint Programme on Strengthening Soci...
29 November 2021

The road to recovery

This paper is part of a series of UNICEF Uzbekistan Policy Briefs that aim to provide evidence to support the Government of Uzbekistan in its social protection response to the economic crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This brief assesses the impacts that the COVID-19 crisis has had on Uzbekistan’s househol...
12 February 2019

“I’ve swapped my complaining for something more positive”:

Мухаммеджон, 18 лет, умело проводит пальцами по экрану своего телефона, быстро переключаясь между приложениями и веб-страницами. “For our generation, mobile phones are a must. Personally, I spend about 5 hours a day on my phone. I can connect with my friends and my parents and look up information on the internet t...
05 February 2019

Building a better future

The purpose of this report is to analyze the social protection system in Uzbekistan, as well as assess its effectiveness and potential. The report is based on a report published by UNICEF titled: “Creating a national social protection system that meets the interests of children and youth of Uzbekistan”. More detai...
14 November 2018

SOWC: Children in a Digital World

The State of the World’s Children 2017 is about an extraordinary subject that increasingly affects almost every aspect of life for millions of children around the world and, indeed, for us all: digital technology. Beyond the harm to individual children that digital technology can enable or abet is its capacity to ...
14 November 2018

Generation 2030 Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan stands at a window of demographic opportunity... Over the past two and a half decades, Uzbekistan has undergone a steady demographic transition. Fertility levels and child mortality have reached low and steady levels. The country’s population, although still growing, has stabilized while remaining youth...
14 November 2018

Generation 2030 Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan stands at a window of demographic opportunity... Over the past two and a half decades, Uzbekistan has undergone a steady demographic transition. Fertility levels and child mortality have reached low and steady levels. The country’s population, although still growing, has stabilized while remaining youth...
12 November 2018

Local Governance

UNICEF’s support to the Government of Uzbekistan in local governance focuses on ensuring that local governments can effectively provide essential services to children in both urban and rural areas. In Uzbekistan, highly centralized governance coupled with lack of adequate urban planning and local governance practi...
29 October 2018

U-Report New Digital Platform for Youth

About 6oo young people – school children, students of the colleges and universities, members of the Youth Union of Uzbekistan gathered at the ‘Zarafshan’ Media Hall to attend the launch of U-Report, a new digital platform for youth engagement. U-report is launched by UNICEF, in partnership with the Youth Union of ...