UNICEF

This publication makes an assessment of the current set standards in the child and family welfare system and provides guidelines for the development of new criteria for service provision and...

This publication provides an analytical framework defining and explaining the gate-keeping approach to decision making, a technique that guides the effective targeting of social services to children...

This publication provides guidelines for redirecting monetary resources by changing financing flows primarily towards support for families at risk and family-based alternatives. It is part of the...

In the course of UNICEF’s work during the past decade, the child-friendly school (CFS) model has emerged as the organization’s signature means to advocate for and promote quality education for every...

UNICEF uses the term 'child protection' to refer to preventing and responding to violence and abuse against children - including commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labour and such...

Advocacy and investment on behalf of children affected by AIDS have had an impact, and the goal of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV appears within reach. But for every problem solved or...

This second stocktaking report reviews advances over the year of 2007, assesses some of the most important actions and changes for children affected by AIDS. It also finds important gains in the areas...

This Stocktaking Report, the third since the Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS initiative was launched in 2005, examines data on progress, emerging evidence, and current knowledge and practice...

An AIDS-free generation is not impossible. Yet the world is not on track to meet targets for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, and the global economic crisis raises concerns about...

This report assesses some of the most important actions and changes for children affected by AIDS that occurred in the first year of the global campaign Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS. The...

Advocacy and investment on behalf of children affected by AIDS have had an impact, and the goal of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV appears within reach. But for every problem solved or...

The organization of this report aims to heighten our understanding of the myriad ways in which armed conflict affects children – and how children regard their participation not only in war but in...

This book is organized around a set of very ambitious goals for children in the 1990s. It discusses some economic conditions necessary to make the social goals for children feasible.

In 2002, the Governments committed to a time-bound set of goals, strategies and actions in four areas: promoting healthy lives; providing quality education; protecting against abuse, exploitation and...

This work examines the initial changes in social policies and the establishment of safety nets which have accompanied the transition to the market economy in Central and Eastern Europe. Policy choices...

Children First examines changes in public attitudes and government policies that have put children at the top of the international agenda in the 1990s. Starting from the International Year of the...

There is a growing global consensus in favour of family-based alternatives to institutional care for children. No residential institution --no matter how well meaning-- can replace the family...

Children are directly and intimately involved with the environment. How well children survive, grow and develop depends on how well families can ensure the cleanliness and safety of children's primary...

Children in War provides essential information on the impact of armed conflict on children and what is being done to counter its harmful effects. A photo essay, which illustrates the ways in which...

By supporting gains in human development, information and communication technologies (ICTs) can contribute to meeting Millennium Development Goals. However, rising inequalities have also meant that...