Unicef Annual Report 2015 Contents

Annual Report 2015 Notes: Data in this report are drawn from the most recent available statistics from UNICEF and other United Nations agencies, annual reports prepared by UNICEF Country Offices and the Annual report of the Executive Director of UNICEF presented to the Executive Board, 14–16 June 2016.

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Front cover: A boy helps his sister across a ditch at a refugee and migrant transit centre in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. © UNICEF/UN05568/Georgiev UNICEF ANNUAL REPORT 2015 CONTENTS

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Message from the 1. Humanitarian Action Executive Director

44 18 Introduction

2. Programme Priorities 3. Partnership, Advocacy 4. Financial Stewardship and Innovation and Accountability

CONTENTS 01 MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Fairness has always been at the The same principle guides our work change. Because of their gender, heart of our work at UNICEF. It began today, and in 2015 we worked harder race, ethnicity or disability. when our organization was founded than ever to promote the rights and to provide life-saving aid to children well-being of children everywhere … The challenges we faced in this work whose lives had been ravaged by and to promote a fair chance in life for were as great as they have ever been World War II. every child – especially the children – because for millions upon millions to whom that fair chance is most of children, life in 2015 was anything It didn’t matter then which country often denied. but fair. those children lived in or what role that country played in the war. What Children left out and left behind Violent conflicts threatened millions mattered was reaching the children at because of who they are or where of children from Ukraine to the Syrian greatest risk and in greatest need. they live. Because they are poor or Arab Republic … from South Sudan live in remote rural areas or urban to the Central African Republic to the Wherever they lived, whoever slums. Because they come from Sahel … from Yemen to Iraq. These their parents were, whatever their countries affected by conflict and protracted conflicts and other crises circumstances. communities hit hard by climate helped drive the largest movement UNICEF/UNI180916/Nesbitt

02 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 of migrant and refugee children in friends through a programme that “In 2015 we worked almost 70 years – increasing the risks fosters reconciliation by helping harder than ever to to their lives and life prospects. displaced children to mix with local promote the rights and young people. well-being of children The effects of climate change – diseases, droughts and floods that Reaching these children and so everywhere … and to destroy food sources and livelihoods many others like them is the right promote a fair chance – further exacerbated risks to children and fair thing to do. And it is not in life for every child – and deepened deprivation for mil- only a matter of fairness. It is also especially the children lions. Crushing poverty and widening a practical prerequisite for building to whom that fair chance disparities in health, education and more stable, peaceful, prosperous is most often denied. protection undermined the lives and societies. Children who are given ” futures of millions more. a fair start in life – nurturing care, access to nutrition and basic health The pages of this report are filled services, an education, protection with examples of these enormous from violence and exploitation – are challenges and the action UNICEF more likely to fulfil their potential and our partners took in 2015 to as adults and make their societies meet them – as well as with hopeful richer in every sense. stories about some of the children we are reaching. In September 2015, the global community recognized this critical Children like Fatima in Yemen, who connection – the basic link between was severely malnourished until a greater equity and stronger societies mobile health team locally known as – when it adopted the Sustainable a ‘rescue car’ arrived at her village Development Goals, which explicitly and set up a temporary clinic to bring pledge to leave no one behind. life-saving nourishment to children cut off by conflict. Together with our partners, UNICEF is already working to turn that Children like Jariatu in Sierra Leone, commitment into concrete action. who lost her family to Ebola but The generosity of our donors makes is now being cared for by a young everything we do possible. We are Ebola survivor, thanks to a cash immensely grateful for their support, transfer programme that is helping and we will continue working to earn rebuild lives. it – making the most efficient use of the funds entrusted to us in order to Children like Thu Zar Moe in achieve the greatest impact in the Myanmar’s Rakhine State, whose lives of the children in greatest need chance for an education was once and at greatest risk. shattered by inter-communal violence, but who is now learning For in a world that often challenges at a child-friendly centre for our hope, we can best challenge displaced families. hopelessness with results.

Children like Masotja in Swaziland, Results for children. a teenager living with HIV whose health and hope were deteriorating Results for every child. until he joined a hospital-supported teen club where adolescents can go to learn more about how to cope with HIV and, just as important, to support each other.

OPPOSITE PAGE: Executive Children like Khaled and Jolal in Iraq, Anthony Lake Director Anthony Lake speaks with a two boys from different religions Executive Director schoolgirl during an event at UNICEF and ethnic groups who became fast headquarters in New York.

MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 03 INTRODUCTION

Every child has the right to a fair chance in life. Leaving no child behind is both a moral imperative CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS and a strategic priority for the devel- Serbia: Helping refugees and migrants weather opment of inclusive, sustainable and the Balkan winter stable societies everywhere.

In 2015, UNICEF worked with partners around the world to make that fair chance a reality.

The year provided a renewed opportunity to build on past achievements with an eye towards reaching all children and narrowing persistent gaps in equity – specifically, UNICEF/UN05622/Gilbertson Photo VII

gaps affecting children left behind © despite overall progress made under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000 through 2015.

The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), approved by 193 Member States of the United Nations in 2015, incorporate objec- tives that are specific to the health and well-being of children – including adolescents. The goals include tar- As temperatures dropped and In response to the refugee gets for early childhood development, families continued their migration and migrant crisis, the European universal access to education, and to Europe in search of safety and Union’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil protection of girls and boys from vio- a better life in December 2015, Protection Department provided lence, abuse and exploitation. There UNICEF and partners worked a grant of €2 million to insulate are also targets related to ending urgently to provide support to children from the worst extremes harmful practices against children migrant and refugee children and of weather and deprivation as they and promoting their legal identify families fleeing conflict in the made their way through Serbia through birth registration. Middle East. and the former Yugoslav Republic Chartered buses lined up at the of Macedonia. Together with an alliance of Sid railway station and unloaded The grant helped procure child-focused agencies, the Special their passengers on the Serbian winter essentials like clothes, Representative of the Secretary- side of the border with Croatia. As footwear and blankets, as well as General on Violence against Children, people queued for police to check age-appropriate food for infants other United Nations agencies and their papers, some of the youngest and children. UNICEF and partners Member States, UNICEF advocated among them were particularly used part of the grant to set up intensively for the child protection vulnerable to the winter cold, with winterized child-friendly spaces, targets, which previously had not temperatures only a few degrees where children can relax and play been integrated into the global above freezing. One boy, little in a warm, dry environment, as development agenda. more than an infant, sat on the well as safe spaces where women ground wearing just one shoe. His can breastfeed their children ABOVE RIGHT: Jannat, age 7, from other foot was bare. in privacy. the Syrian Arab Republic, plays at a child-friendly space in Croatia.

04 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 The new global goals recognize the quickly to the shifting circumstances “In pursuit of a more critical importance of promoting of children in all contexts, including equitable world, UNICEF equity in access to child and mater- countries of origin, transit and des- stepped up our response nal health care, proper nutrition, safe tination – and to protect their best to both entrenched and drinking water, birth registration, interests at every stage. In this case, quality education and other the crisis has reached the ‘backyard’ new challenges in 2015.” essentials. By adopting the goals, of high-income countries. the world’s governments committed to a pledge “that no one will be left At the same time, UNICEF sought behind … and we will endeavour to new ways to meet children’s reach the furthest behind first.” This basic needs – for health, nutrition, approach mirrors UNICEF’s perspec- water and sanitation, education tive that sustainable development and protection – in the most is achievable only if progress difficult circumstances and remote accelerates for the poorest and most locations. That meant piloting marginalized children and families. new solutions at the country level and launching a Global Innovation In pursuit of a more equitable Centre and Innovation Fund to nur- world, UNICEF stepped up our ture and scale up creative means of response to both entrenched and improving young lives and reaching new challenges in 2015. the unreached.

BELOW: An indigenous Guaraní The mass influx of migrants and On the humanitarian front, UNICEF family collects water at a community refugees into Europe, in particular, and partners responded to major tap in Totorenda, Plurinational State underscored the need to respond crises in Iraq, South Sudan, the of Bolivia. UNICEF/UNI189314/Gilbertson VII Photo VII UNICEF/UNI189314/Gilbertson

INTRODUCTION 05 Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen; The vast majority of results health emergencies in Latin America UNICEF achieved in 2015 would PROGRAMME IN FOCUS and West Africa; earthquake dev- not have happened without United Nations: astation in Nepal; typhoons in the the close collaboration of our Inspiring child and Pacific; droughts in the Sahel, East partners – including governments, youth awareness of the Africa and the Americas; and many civil society, non-governmental global goals more. Breaking down the barriers organizations (NGOs), foundations, between short-term humanitarian the private sector, other agencies action and longer-term development of the United Nations, local In the lead-up to the United work, we focused on strengthening communities, and children and Nations General Assembly systems that provide critical young people themselves. Our session that adopted the services. In this way, we seek to 34 National Committees, which Sustainable Development help communities anticipate shocks work with UNICEF on behalf of child Goals in September 2015, and become more resilient when rights worldwide, remained key UNICEF joined with a group disasters strike. partners as well. of child-centred civil society organizations to produce a In 2015, we also advanced our work UNICEF relies on the generosity and ‘child-friendly’ version of the on breaking down another set of dedication of our resource partners, global goals – and to engage barriers to equity and sustainable who make programmes and results children in discussions about development: the ones that prevent for children possible. Most of the the new agenda and their vision girls and young women from real- revenue received by UNICEF in for a better world. Partners in izing their full potential. UNICEF’s 2015 came from governments, but the effort included ChildFund Gender Action Plan 2014−2017 private-sector funds accounted for a Alliance, the Global Movement provides a framework for targeting growing proportion of the total. for Children in Latin America gender-driven inequities. Besides and the Caribbean, Plan mainstreaming gender across all The commitments set forth in the International, Save the Children, programmes, the plan focuses SDGs and other international agree- SOS Children’s Villages and on improving adolescent health, ments reached in 2015 inspired new World Vision. The child-friendly advancing girls’ secondary education hopes worldwide. With those hopes booklet – entitled The World and ending child marriage, as well as came an even greater responsibility We Want: A guide to the goals addressing gender-based violence in for UNICEF and our partners to turn for children and young people emergencies. UNICEF also helped commitments on paper into results – received wide praise from to raise the profile of gender issues on the ground for all children. This Member States and served as in the final targets selected for report highlights our efforts to do just a key resource in the World’s the SDGs. that in a demanding year. Largest Lesson, an international initiative to bring the messages of the global goals into schools. The lesson reached an UNICEF expenditure, 2015 estimated 500 million children in (in millions of US dollars) more than 160 countries. BUDGET CATEGORY

Development $4,675

Programme $4,546

Development effectiveness $129

Management $312

United Nations development coordination $6

Special purpose (including capital investment) $22

Other (including private fundraising and partnerships) $97

Total expenditure $5,112

Note: The UNICEF expenditure by budget categories in this table is presented on a modified cash basis and reflects cash disbursements and internal obligation documents (such as purchase orders) created in 2015.

06 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Direct programme expense by outcome area, 2015 (in millions of US dollars)

$35.7 HIV/AIDS $65.2 $6.2 $118.9 Social inclusion $84.2 $63.4 Total $130.0 Nutrition $216.9 $256.6 $4,768.4 $156.4 million Child protection $222.4 $264.8 $110.1 WASH $322.8 $435.8 $157.8 Education $521.6 $321.1 $223.3 Health $717.3 $338.1 $0 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700 $800

Regular resources Other resources (regular) Other resources (emergency)

Note: Numbers may not add up because of rounding.

Direct programme expense by region, 2015 (in millions of US dollars)

$29.1 CEE/CIS $58.2 $55.1

$67.6 Interregional $82.8 Total $-4.7 $4,768.4 Latin America $38.9 and the Caribbean $89.2 million $25.3

Middle East and $45.9 $144.5 North Africa $695.0

$220.1 Asia $432.5 $145.8

$530.4 Sub-Saharan Africa* $1,343.2 $769.4

$0 $200 $400 $600 $800 $1,000 $1,200 $1,400

Regular resources Other resources (regular) Other resources (emergency)

* Programme expenses for Djibouti and the Sudan are included under sub-Saharan Africa. Note: Numbers may not add up because of rounding.

INTRODUCTION 07 1. HUMANITARIAN ACTION

When conflicts or natural disasters strike, children are always the most exposed and the most vulnerable – particularly the poorest and most disadvantaged children.

UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 New and protracted emergencies took a “UNICEF collaborated heavy toll in 2015 – risking the survival, with partners to provide assistance in 310 health, well-being and future of children humanitarian situations around the world, including those in some of across 102 countries, reaching millions of the most dangerous and hard-to-reach places. vulnerable children and their caregivers.” In line with the Strategic Plan 2014– worldwide. Food insecurity 2017 and the Core Commitments continued to blanket the Sahel for Children in Humanitarian Action, region in Africa, leaving millions of UNICEF collaborated with partners to children at heightened risk of acute provide assistance in 310 humanitar- malnutrition, in addition to other ian situations across 102 countries in deprivations in health and water, 2015, reaching millions of vulnerable sanitation and hygiene. Entire villages children and their caregivers. and townships were crushed by earthquakes, including two massive The Core Commitments constitute quakes in Nepal, or washed away by UNICEF’s central policy on how to tropical storms like Cyclone Pam in uphold the rights of children affected Vanuatu. Each calamity in its own way by humanitarian crises. They provide devastated children, robbing them of a framework for humanitarian action. education, health, nutrition, protection and – in the worst cases – life itself. BELOW: Children at a mother and The challenges in 2015 were child health centre run by UNICEF significant, with nearly 250 million Whether they involve armed conflict, partner Swiss-Kalmo in the Bay children affected by armed conflict brutal storms or ravaging drought, region of Somalia. UNICEF/UNI201557/Rich

HUMANITARIAN ACTION 09 “UNICEF’s commitment to these and other catastrophes When conflicts or natural equity and human rights have shown that there really is no disasters strike, children are for every child is the clear dividing line between urgent always the most exposed and the humanitarian action and longer-term most vulnerable – particularly the linchpin of our work on development work. A lack of poorest and most disadvantaged emergency preparedness adequate development often causes children. UNICEF’s commitment to and humanitarian action.” or exacerbates crises by leaving com- equity and human rights for every munities vulnerable and unprepared. child is the linchpin of our work on emergency preparedness and By the same token, robust develop- humanitarian action. ment and emergency preparedness efforts can help mitigate the impact After the acute crisis subsides, our of future disasters. A joint study goal is to ‘build back better’ so that carried out by UNICEF, the World Food all children will receive adequate Programme and the United Kingdom’s nutrition, basic health care and Department for International quality education; communities will Development in 2015 found that early gain access to sustainable water investments in preparedness lead and sanitation facilities, and durable BELOW: Noor, age 7, carries a box of winter clothing at a UNICEF-facilitated to efficiency gains – with a return of infrastructure; and societies can build distribution in Al Rahma camp, US$2 for every US$1 invested – and enduring peace while restoring and Missan Governorate, Iraq. shorten response time. advancing human rights. UNICEF/UN05996/Anmar

10 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Complex emergencies protection environment, many Syrian Disasters, health crises children were also vulnerable to and conflict Acute crises placed millions of exploitation, abuse and coercion into children and their families at risk in armed groups, labour or, for girls, Other emergencies also required 2015, and some of the most danger- early marriage. swift action in 2015. Natural ous situations required an disasters, including extreme organization-wide mobilization. The situation in neighbouring Iraq weather events associated with UNICEF responded to four such deteriorated further during 2015, climate change, flattened villages situations – in Iraq, South Sudan, the as conflict and violence escalated. and wreaked havoc on people’s Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen. In Attacks against civilians persisted, lives. Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam these and other crises, we provided and reports of abductions, sexual barrelled through the Pacific island emergency supplies, immunization, assaults and mass executions state of Vanuatu in March, demol- safe water and sanitation, shelter, escalated. Humanitarian access ishing schools, health care facilities education and child protection, in- became nearly impossible in some and water supplies, and traumatizing cluding protection from gender-based areas, and ethno-sectarian tensions children and their families. Nepal violence. We also provided support seemed likely to compromise future lost more than 5,000 schools, while to existing systems and institutions reconciliation. More than 3 million thousands more were damaged, in order to prevent their collapse, Iraqis had been forced from their when two earthquakes struck on rebuild their capacities and restore homes by the end of the year. Many 25 April and 12 May. basic services for vulnerable children. of the displaced are children, and just 30 per cent of them attend school. Floods, landslides and other natural After five years of bloodshed, the disasters combined with unrest in conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic Already impoverished and Myanmar to create a critical situation remains the largest humanitarian fragile, Yemen became a full-blown in 2015, displacing hundreds of crisis in the world and has resulted in humanitarian crisis in 2015. More thousands of children from their grave violations of human rights. By than 21 million people – 82 per cent homes. While most flood-affected the end of 2015, about 13.5 million of the population – are in need of children were able to return, they people within the country, including assistance. The conflict in Yemen had limited access to basic services 6 million children, were in urgent has disrupted immunization drives and remained vulnerable to violence, need of life-saving assistance, and and maternal, child and newborn trafficking, abuse and neglect. 6.5 million were internally displaced. health services, destroyed schools, More than 4 million people had disrupted water supplies and further The Ebola outbreak – which raged already fled the country. Attacks on imperilled child nutrition. Child throughout most of 2014 and schools and hospitals, in particular, protection concerns are mounting, into 2015 – continued to affect undermined access to services. with the conflict taking a significant communities in Guinea, Liberia toll on children’s psychosocial and Sierra Leone, while posing a As a result, vast numbers of Syrian well-being. threat to neighbouring countries. children lack proper access to The epidemic took its toll on the health care, quality education, and Also in the throes of violence, South countries’ health and education safe water and sanitation, among Sudan entered its second year of systems, with doctors, nurses and other essential services. Inside armed conflict in 2015. Intensifying teachers among the casualties. the Syrian Arab Republic, at year’s and expanding violence uprooted More broadly, Ebola threatened end, one third of children under more than 2.3 million people, economic growth and development age 5 were not immunized against including some 1.7 million who were in already fragile, post-conflict killer diseases, and many schools internally displaced and 645,000 environments. Although the had been destroyed or occupied who sought refuge in neighbouring epidemic has subsided, getting to by displaced people. Amidst des- Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda. zero cases remains a challenge. perate conditions and an eroding The outbreak killed more than 11,000 people in all, with one out of five In the Syrian Arab Republic infections striking children. More than 18,000 children lost one or both par- 13.5 m 6 m ents or primary caregivers to Ebola. After three years of armed people are in urgent need are children conflict, thousands of children in of life-saving assistance the Central African Republic also

HUMANITARIAN ACTION 11 faced dire prospects. Under-five and maternal mortality rates were high, and one third of the country’s CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS primary school-aged children were Yemen: Mobile teams provide nutrition and health care not in school. Indeed, protracted amidst strife tensions in a range of countries simmered and, at times, boiled over in 2015. Ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Burundi, Nigeria and Ukraine resulted in children being displaced, kidnapped, recruited by armed groups and maimed or killed by gunfire, grenades and unexplod- UNICEF/UNI187326/Yasin

ed ordnance. ©

More than 1 million people arrived on Europe’s shores during 2015 in an almost unprecedented movement of population caused by conflicts and other root causes – a movement surpassing the one that followed World War II. Children represent an increasing proportion of the arrivals; towards the end of the year, one in every four arrivals was a child. Many of these children have reached Europe following arduous, dangerous journeys, primarily from the Syrian Arab Republic and other conflict-affected zones in the Middle East. People call them the ‘rescue cars’. their equipment and supplies Travelling across the country, often into a house that would serve as Migrant and refugee children on roads fraught with danger, they a temporary clinic. One female are in need of specialized care provide a lifeline to displaced fam- health worker singled out frail and support, including efforts to ilies and remote communities cut Fatima, who was pale and listless. safeguard child rights; protect off from vital health services by At age 4, she was the youngest unaccompanied and separated violence across much of Yemen. of the family’s children, and her children; and provide crucial services More accurately known as belly was bloated. The child was such as shelter, warm clothing, mobile health teams, the cars weighed and measured. “This child-appropriate nutrition, health are staffed by health workers and will help your daughter get better care, counselling and opportunities community volunteers, with support – she’s severely malnourished,” a for learning and play. from UNICEF. During 2015, the member of the team told Fatima’s teams fanned out to reach areas father, handing him sachets of where health services had broken nutritious high-energy peanut down, providing screening and treat- paste – a ready-to-use therapeutic ment for malnutrition and childhood food − to augment her diet. diseases, vaccinating children and “My daughter’s life was saved,” women, administering deworming her father later told UNICEF. medicine and offering support to Even before the escalation of pregnant and lactating women. violence, Yemen had an alarmingly The parents of a young girl high rate of malnutrition among named Fatima will not forget the children under age 5. With life day a rescue car reached their disrupted for so many, mobile village. The team climbed out interventions like the ‘rescue cars’ ABOVE RIGHT: A mother carries of their vehicle and quickly took are even more critical. her child to receive medical treatment in Yemen.

12 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 UNICEF responds worldwide communities. More than 640,000 including nearly 95,000 children. In women and girls gained access to the Central African Republic, UNICEF- Despite the startling scope of the safe drinking water and sanitation, supported RRMs distributed non-food year’s crises, UNICEF and partners and 3,445 women’s groups reached items to more than 161,000 people rose to multiple challenges in 2015. over 346,000 people with information and water, sanitation and hygiene Our accomplishments in emergency on preventing gender-based violence, (WASH) services to nearly 69,000 – situations included: as well as available services. With twice the number reached with such additional support, police at 86 services in 2014. Amidst increasing • Supplying 25.5 million people with checkpoints intercepted 1,472 demands in Iraq, millions more safe drinking water women and children from traffickers. received RRM assistance.

• Giving 23 million measles In the Sudan, UNICEF trained 233 In Myanmar, meanwhile, vaccinations to children between community midwives who helped to UNICEF helped expand life-skills 6 months and 15 years of age improve access to maternal and child training and access to non-formal health services for 400,000 pregnant education for more than 98,000 • Providing 7.5 million children aged women. In the State of Palestine, the adolescents in the country’s most 3 to 18 with access to formal or Post-Natal Home Visit Programme inaccessible areas. In Nigeria, back- non-formal basic education covered 49 per cent of all women to-school campaigns enrolled over in the post-natal period, reaching 170,000 new students. In Yemen, • Treating 2 million children aged 6 high-risk mothers and newborns. more than 22,000 out-of-school months to 59 months for severe And in the Democratic Republic children (80 per cent of them girls) in acute malnutrition of the Congo, Ethiopia and South the cities of Al Hudaydah, Hajjah and Sudan, 21,500 girls and women of Ta’izz benefited from access to formal • Providing psychosocial support to reproductive age received dignity kits and non-formal education. 3.1 million children. for menstrual hygiene management. The power of education and UNICEF took these urgent measures Also in South Sudan, with UNICEF’s awareness in combatting epidemics and more – including the deployment help, more than half a million people was clear as 3.6 million households of 755 emergency-response staff – to gained access to safe drinking water, in the three countries hardest hit by meet immediate needs in the field. and 1,755 children were reunited with Ebola – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra But wherever possible, we also their families and communities after Leone – received information and supported longer-term development, being released from armed groups. training on preventing the spread of with an eye towards helping the We also worked with 20 centres the virus. In Guinea, Village Watch most disadvantaged families and across six South Sudanese states, Committees composed of women, communities become more resilient reaching some 85,000 children and religious leaders, youth and repre- in the event of future crises. women with services to aid their sentatives of traditional brotherhoods recovery from sexual abuse. were engaged in the response to A variety of country-specific Ebola. They helped raise community interventions reflected this approach. Inter-sectoral Rapid Response awareness about the disease, identify After the earthquakes in Nepal, Mechanisms (RRMs) – set up by cases early on, seek care for the ill for example, UNICEF and partners UNICEF and partners to deliver and trace exposed family members. worked through the government’s humanitarian aid quickly in difficult In Sierra Leone, UNICEF provided social assistance programmes circumstances and hard-to-reach thousands of women and girls with to disburse cash transfers to areas − proved essential in expanding services and support addressing the approximately 400,000 poor and life-saving interventions to more risks of sexual exploitation and abuse disadvantaged people in stricken than 540,000 people in South Sudan, amidst the epidemic.

In humanitarian situations in 2015, UNICEF provided 25.5 m 23 m 3.1 m people with children with children with safe water measles vaccinations psychosocial support

HUMANITARIAN ACTION 13 UNICEF also supported the Ebola- In response to another challenge National Committees and other affected countries in making the facing children in 2015, the migrant United Nations agencies (notably the transition from emergency response and refugee crisis in Europe, United Nations High Commissioner to recovery, and building better UNICEF and partners established for Refugees) have allowed us to im- health systems. At the heart of the a network of child-friendly spaces prove the quality of services through effort were resilient community along the main route of population coordination and put children at the health worker programmes, movement. In the process, we centre of the effort. strengthened disease surveillance reached 81,000 children in Croatia, systems and rapid treatment at the former Yugoslav Republic of At the global level, UNICEF also the community level. In all three Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. continued to support the humani- countries, we provided technical These spaces were upgraded with tarian system in 2015, promoting leadership in Communication for mother and baby care facilities, inter-agency cooperation through Development (C4D), which involves which provided support and our leadership role in a range of pro- understanding people, their beliefs counselling to lactating mothers grammatic ‘clusters’ – an approach and values – and then engaging and reached nearly 18,000 babies. designed to strengthen partnerships communities and listening to and coordination in key sectors of adults and children as they identify In addition, 2,251 unaccompanied humanitarian response. We led or problems, propose solutions and and separated children benefited co-led clusters in 66 countries for act upon them. from family tracing and reuni- WASH, 66 for education, 60 for fication, psychosocial services nutrition, 57 for child protection UNICEF has a strong track record and family-based care. UNICEF and 8 for gender-based violence. in harnessing the power of also provided continuous support communication to promote child to WASH infrastructure in the Our partners remained crucial survival, development, protection reception centres on the main route to UNICEF’s humanitarian and participation. Beyond the Ebola of population movement, including programming as we worked closely response, we have worked with hygiene kits and information for with governments, civil society, partners to establish C4D platforms arriving families. international and national NGOs, first contributing to adolescent and responders, local service providers youth engagement in peace- The crisis in Europe represents and affected populations them- building. Through these creative a new type of emergency for selves. During the year, 29 stand-by platforms – including participatory UNICEF. It has required us to adapt partners provided UNICEF with a theatre, video and radio – we have to an extremely fluid humanitarian total of 25,689 days of support in engaged with networks of children environment and provide assistance 226 deployments – the equivalent of and young people in countries to children and their families on 70 full-time staff members working affected by acute conflict such as the move – some of whom spend for emergency operations. South Sudan and in post-conflict only a few hours in transit and countries such as Côte d’Ivoire reception centres. Our partnerships and Uganda. with governments, NGOs, UNICEF UNICEF/UNI182396/Hamoud

RIGHT: A worker unloads medical and other supplies from UNICEF at Sana’a International Airport, Yemen.

14 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 “At the global level, UNICEF continued to CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS support the humanitarian Nepal: Psychosocial counselling goes on the radio system in 2015, promoting inter-agency cooperation through our leadership role in a range of programmatic ‘clusters’ in key sectors.” UNICEF/UNI183943/Panday

In May 2015, Pramod Dahal, the an opportunity to ask questions veteran anchor of Radio Nepal, and share their grievances, fears, announced the launch of a special trauma and concerns on the air. new programme. At the time, Radio Nepal has the country’s Nepal was struggling to cope with largest listening audience, reach- the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude ing more than 70 per cent of the earthquake that had struck the population, from the cities to the country a week earlier. most remote villages. “We have never done anything “I was so excited to hear like this before, and Radio Nepal children talk, and we all felt so feels really proud and emotional good listening to them talk and about it,” he said just before sing,” said listener Bina Maharjan, the programme, Bhandai Sundai age 19, from the Khokana neigh- (Talking, Listening), aired its first bourhood in the Lalitpur district broadcast on a Sunday morning. of Kathmandu Valley. More than It was developed with support 200 families in Khokana lost their from UNICEF Nepal to give people homes in the earthquake. Bina the most updated information about added that many adolescents like the earthquake aid response – and her suffered from anxiety and fear to provide quake survivors with in the aftermath of the disaster.

ABOVE LEFT: Children and adults listen to the Bhandai Sundai radio programme in Nepal.

HUMANITARIAN ACTION 15 Assessments and analyses

In addition to on-the-ground interventions in 2015, UNICEF continued to provide assessments and analyses of humanitarian issues UNICEF/UNI186279/2015

and emergency situations in the © interest of supporting emergency preparedness, quick response and early recovery.

UNICEF regularly takes part in assessments within the framework of inter-agency Humanitarian Response Plans, which articulate a shared vision of how to respond strategically to the needs of affected populations based on Humanitarian Needs Overviews and other joint assessments. We have also been active in the inter-agency Post- Conflict Needs Assessment and Post-Disaster Needs Assessment processes, which promote integrated and comprehensive approaches to emergency response. And our country and regional offices, as well as headquarters divisions, conduct detailed analyses and assessments concerning humanitarian situations. communities reacted positively to in Emergencies: Roadmap our response. But participants also (2016−2020), a comprehensive In one of the numerous appraisals of identified a number of challenges report launched by 15 countries lessons learned in such situations, related to the flexibility of the and 25 civil society organizations an analysis of UNICEF’s response response, the availability of data and – and we played a crucial role, to the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak the establishment of performance with partners, in incorporating the in West Africa provided important monitoring systems. issue of gender-based violence information for future health in emergencies in multiple SDG emergencies. The analysis found On another critical issue in 2015, targets. Together with the United a collective sense that UNICEF UNICEF produced an analysis of the Nations Population Fund, we had contributed significantly to impact of conflict on education in disseminated the revised Inter- mitigating the outbreak – and that 22 areas and countries. Released Agency Standing Committee’s resource partners, governments and in January 2016, the analysis found Guidelines for Integrating Gender- that one in four children living in crisis based Violence Interventions in zones was out of school, totalling Humanitarian Action. nearly 24 million school-aged children. In a report entitled Education And in yet another report, A Under Fire, we analysed schooling Wake Up Call: El Niño’s Impact in the Middle East – which until a on Children, UNICEF warned of few years ago was on the cusp of upcoming emergencies related achieving universal education – and to the cyclical warming of the found that more than 13 million chil- Pacific Ocean that scientists say is dren were not able to attend school exacerbated by climate change. In because of armed conflict. Latin America, El Niño is behind the region’s worst drought on record. ABOVE: Second-graders start their day UNICEF also made substantial It imperils other regions as well, at a post-earthquake temporary learning contributions to Call to Action including Eastern and Southern centre in Gorkha, Nepal. on Gender-based Violence Africa, and East Asia and the Pacific.

16 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Funding for humanitarian meet children’s needs. The bulk of the Despite funding constraints, UNICEF action year’s humanitarian funding went to and partners generated wide-rang- large-scale crises such as those in the ing results for children at risk. We Humanitarian revenue paid for Ebola-affected countries, as well as made our presence felt, for example, more than one third of UNICEF’s Iraq, Nepal, South Sudan, the Syrian with nutrition and measles vaccina- overall expenditures in 2015. Arab Republic and neighbouring tion campaigns in the Democratic Despite the generosity of resource countries, and Yemen. Refugee Republic of the Congo; treatment partners, however, the year’s crises in Eastern and Southern of malnutrition in Ethiopia and Niger; enormous demands outpaced Africa, and West and Central Africa, and psychosocial support, explosive the level of funding. were severely underfunded, and remnants-of-war decontamination protracted crises in countries such as and mine risk education in During 2015, UNICEF received Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic Afghanistan – among hundreds 58 per cent of the total funds of the Congo, Niger and Sudan also of other crisis-response efforts. requested in humanitarian appeals to struggled to attract resources. UNICEF and partners responded to these emergencies in keeping with our mandate to reach the children most in need. But taking CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS humanitarian action that helps build Iraq: Building a team on the field and off more resilient families, communities and countries is also a top priority. For this reason, we are working to better bridge our development, emergency preparedness, risk reduction, humanitarian and peace- building efforts. This effort draws upon the sustainable development agenda and global agreements

UNICEF Iraq/2015/ Mackenzie made in 2015 at the Third United

© Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, also known as COP21. In addition, the consultations leading up to the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 The two young men came region of Iraq. The centre, have highlighted various challenges. from different parts of Iraq built as part of UNICEF’s No and had different religious and Lost Generation initiative and In line with the expected outcomes ethnic backgrounds. Speaking supported by a donation from of the summit and recommenda- with UNICEF during a visit in the German Development Bank, tions of the High-Level Panel on September 2015, they couldn’t is a place for displaced and Humanitarian Financing, UNICEF is even agree on who is the best refugee children to mix with local committed to making the concrete football player in the world. young people. changes needed for a more robust “It’s Messi,” said Khaled, During 2015, more than and accountable humanitarian while Jolal sadly shook his head. 500 children attended the system. Our goal – and that of our “Cristiano,” he said firmly. centre every week for activities partners – is a system that not only Jolal is from Mosul, while such as swimming, music, provides immediate, life-saving Khaled, a member of Iraq’s Yazidi drawing and football. Because assistance for children and their minority, is from Sinjar. In normal football is so popular, the pitch is families, but also invests in children’s times, the two probably never divided in half, with boys playing long-term needs and aspirations. would have met. But these are not on one side, and girls on the normal times, and Jolal and Khaled other. The facility gives young are good friends. people an opportunity to play The boys met at the Avdan and to learn – and to be part of Centre in Dohuk, in the Kurdistan a community. ABOVE LEFT: Friends Jolal and Khaled (third and fourth from left) join a football match in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

HUMANITARIAN ACTION 17 2. PROGRAMME PRIORITIES

Our programmes are informed by a commitment to position children at the centre of development and to work towards realizing the vision of a fair chance for every child.

UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 As 2015 came to an end, UNICEF reached the midpoint of its current Strategic Plan, which covers the period from 2014 to 2017. This halfway point allows us to evaluate whether we are on track towards our overarching goal: to make sure that all children – beginning with the most disadvantaged – have the opportunity to survive, thrive and reach their full potential.

It gives us a chance, as well, UNICEF’s work through 2017. The to make any adjustments needed SDGs have generated momentum to keep the Strategic Plan aligned in several strategic areas, including with major global pacts agreed upon early childhood development, in 2015 – especially the SDGs but birth registration, quality learning also commitments from the Third and school completion, gender United Nations World Conference on equality, ending child marriage and Disaster Risk Reduction, the COP21 integrating humanitarian action and climate-change meeting and the development work. But as ever, Third International Conference on our programmes are informed by a Financing for Development. commitment to position children at the centre of development and to BELOW: Pupils look out from their The plan continues to provide an work towards realizing the vision classroom at the A.M.E. Zion School in effective global framework for of a fair chance for every child. Odoben, Ghana. UNICEF/UNI196499/Baddoo

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 19 The Strategic Plan lays out households nearly twice as likely to gains at risk, threatening to derail UNICEF’s work on behalf of die as those from the wealthiest. attempts to break the intergen- children’s rights to be healthy, Globally, 2.4 billion people lacked erational cycle of poverty and to drink safe water, to learn, to improved sanitation, 40 per cent disadvantage. be well-nourished, to receive of them in southern Asia. Of the social support and protection, to 2.6 million children under age 15 Still, the events of 2015 offered have access to HIV prevention, living with HIV, just one in three the potential for transformative treatment and care, and to live free was receiving treatment, and AIDS change and new opportunities for of gender-based discrimination, remains the leading cause of death UNICEF to work with international exploitation and violence. In among adolescents in Africa – with partners, governments and com- support of those rights, UNICEF adolescent girls facing especially munities – and young people them- played a leading role in global and high risks of infection. Despite selves – in order to reach the most regional partnerships during 2015. advances in school enrolment, vulnerable children. Through the approximately 250 million children SDGs, the world looked towards a As the endpoint of the MDG era, of primary school age (more than more equitable and peaceful future, which began in 2000, the year was half of whom attended school) albeit one that will escape our a time to take stock of the progress still could not read, write or do grasp if we fail to reach the most that we and our partners have basic arithmetic, while 75 million disadvantaged children. made – and the gaps that remain. children and adolescents had their We contributed to the evidence education disrupted by crisis. And The following pages highlight base for this assessment, providing girls were still 2.5 times more likely results achieved by UNICEF and a substantial amount of the data than boys to be out of school in partners during 2015 in the seven used to measure the MDGs’ impact conflict situations. outcome areas of our Strategic on children and to develop indica- Plan, plus cross-cutting results on tors for the new global goals. Furthermore, poor and disadvan- gender equality. While the respec- taged children were dispropor- tive programme areas are divided The data show that the world has tionally affected by humanitarian up for purposes of planning and made notable progress under the disasters in 2015 – particularly presentation, it is important to note MDGs. Yet huge disparities persist. climate-change related disasters that they intersect and complement in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, as each other extensively on the In 2015, despite dramatic gains well as armed conflicts that left ground – just as humanitarian and in child survival, an estimated millions displaced and forced them development interventions as a 5.9 million children still did not to flee their homes and countries. whole are mutually reinforcing in live to see their fifth birthday, At the same time, global economic the lives of children and families. with children from the poorest conditions put recent development

The number of children who died before turning 5 fell by more than 50 per cent worldwide between 1990 and 2015

1990

Despite this, 16,000 2015 children under age 5 die every day from preventable, treatable diseases

20 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Health

CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS Between 1990 and 2015, the South Sudan: Preventing malaria, one net at a time number of children who died before their fifth birthday fell by more than half worldwide. Despite this achievement, 16,000 children under age 5 die each day, most from preventable and treatable diseases. Of all under-five deaths, 45 per cent occur in the first 28 days of life and can be prevented by quality maternal and newborn care. The rates of mortality are highest among children from the UNICEF South Sudan/2015/Lomodong UNICEF South

Some 60 per cent of maternal deaths and 53 per cent of newborn and under-five deaths happen in zones of conflict and Jackline secured her baby tightly part of a Test, Treat and Prevent displacement. In response, UNICEF on her back with a piece of cloth Malaria campaign. has developed a guide for newborn and bent down to pick up a The onset of the annual rainy care in emergencies and started a package on the ground in front season in much of South Sudan preparedness initiative for public of her. But this was no ordinary brings the heightened threat of health in crisis situations. In two package. The 20-year-old mother malaria – one of the major killers regions, we provided training in of two had just collected two of children under age 5. UNICEF emergency health to build the insecticide-treated mosquito nets responded in 2015 by supporting capacity of country offices. Our from the Gurei Primary Health the prevention and treatment cam- health strategy aims at building Care Centre on the outskirts of paign, which provided long-lasting resilient and sound health systems South Sudan’s capital, Juba. insecticidal nets to women and providing service delivery in a “I came because the bed accessing antenatal care at health crisis context. net I have is worn out, and the facilities with their young children. mosquito season has begun,” The initiative also distributed At the international level, UNICEF she said. At 6 months of age, her medication and rapid testing kits. is part of the Global Health Cluster baby Sarah had already contracted In addition, UNICEF and the Steering Committee of malaria three times. pre-positioned some 500,000 the Global Outbreak Alert and Jackline was among thousands doses of antimalarial medication Response Network. The purpose of of people who had gathered at the in locations around South Sudan. the network is to see that the right health centre in May 2015 to re- The availability of this medication technical expertise and skills are ceive insecticide-treated nets that expedited the prompt treatment applied where and when they are the Ministry of Health, the World needed to save children’s lives, needed most. Health Organization, UNICEF and regardless of household income other partners were distributing as or location.

ABOVE LEFT: Jackline sits with her daughter under an insecticide-treated bed net in South Sudan.

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 21 “UNICEF is helping and professionalized community after successful immunization drives to tackle three of health workers is one way that backed by 350 million doses of oral the deadliest UNICEF is mainstreaming gender polio vaccine from UNICEF. Although equality in both humanitarian and two countries, Afghanistan and diseases affecting development settings. Pakistan, have yet to eradicate polio, the poorest children: the world is on track to be certified malaria, pneumonia In Cambodia, UNICEF helped polio-free by 2019. and diarrhoea.” strengthen outreach services and thus provide antenatal care for The gender dimension was 90,000 mothers and children in critical to achieving desired results hard-to-reach areas during 2015. in Pakistan’s polio immunization In Bangladesh, we supported the programme. Communications development of national adolescent staff on the ground were trained in and reproductive health strategies, projecting vaccinators as protectors spotlighting teenage pregnancy. of the community, as were front-line And in the Syrian Arab Republic, polio workers – 72 per cent of them where nearly two thirds of hospitals women – in 53 high-risk districts. have been destroyed or severely The strategy alleviated suspicions UNICEF is committed to accel- damaged as a result of armed and fostered acceptance of wom- erating progress on child survival conflict, we provided routine immu- en’s role as community health work- and child health by working across nization, polio vaccines and health ers. These efforts helped reduce sectors to address the risks children services to 4.18 million children the number of children missed by face throughout their lives – with and mothers. vaccinators from 500,000 in 2013 to an emphasis on the most disad- fewer than 16,000 in 2015. vantaged. Working with adolescent In partnership with international and girls who are pregnant or have given local NGOs, UNICEF helped recruit To preserve vaccines during storage birth, for example, we aim to reduce 18,500 religious youth and women and transport, UNICEF continued early pregnancy and associated in Kyrgyzstan to conduct community to support governments in strength- risks for young mothers and infants. outreach in mosques. Subsequently, ening cold chains, logistics systems We also support high-impact some 200,000 parents who were and effective vaccine management interventions for ending preventable reluctant initially agreed to have their processes. Overall, UNICEF pro- maternal and newborn deaths and children immunized. cured $2.27 billion in health-related stillbirths at the country level. supplies in 2015 – including 2.8 In Uganda, we continued to support billion doses of vaccines that By reinforcing and expanding the eHMIS, the Ministry of Health’s reached 45 per cent of the world’s community platform for delivering electronic health information system children under age 5 in 95 countries. essential treatment services – including mTrac, an SMS-based to children, UNICEF is helping tool that enables the flow of relevant Through its private-sector to tackle three of the deadliest and timely health data into the partnerships with Procter & Gamble, diseases affecting the poorest national system. Having reached Pampers and Kiwanis International, children: malaria, pneumonia and national scale in 2013, mTrac is UNICEF raised approximately $15 diarrhoea. As of 2015, 28 countries accessible to more than 42,000 million for child health initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa were health workers. They use the tool to in 2015 – including elimination of implementing integrated Community submit data via text messages on maternal and neonatal tetanus. And Case Management (iCCM) for all infectious diseases, maternal and we contributed data and expertise three diseases, and more than neonatal deaths, and stock-outs of to regional and global partnerships 82,000 community health workers essential medicines. Another feature such as the Every Newborn Action were trained in iCCM through of mTrac is its anonymous hotline Plan; the Ending Preventable UNICEF country programmes for complaints about delivery of Maternal Mortality working group; during the year. health services. GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance; the Global Health Data Collaborative; Community-based health positions Cambodia, India and Mauritania elim- the International Health Partnership; provide opportunities for women inated maternal and neonatal tetanus the Partnership for Maternal, to serve as leaders and experts, in 2015 through UNICEF-supported Newborn and Child Health; and break down gender stereotypes vaccination campaigns and stronger the United Nations Secretary and provide life-saving services. service delivery, while Nigeria was General’s Every Woman Every Training more women as paid declared polio-free in September Child initiative.

22 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 HIV and AIDS half of all infants are tested for HIV before they are 2 months old. Global efforts to stop the spread of CHILDREN AND YOUTH HIV and AIDS continued apace in UNICEF advocates for early IN FOCUS 2015, but progress remains mixed. diagnosis, support and treatment for Swaziland: Teen club While new HIV infections among infants and mothers living with HIV. offers peer support children under age 15 fell by 58 per Contributing to the UNAIDS Global to adolescents living cent from 2000 to 2014 (the latest Plan to eliminate new infections with HIV year for available data), only 32 per among children and keep their cent of children with HIV were mothers alive, we provided technical receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). support and programme guidance to Masotja was born with HIV and AIDS remains the number-one 22 priority countries. We also worked is a member of the Baylor Teen killer of adolescents in Africa and with governments on following the Club, which he joined for peer the second-leading cause of death World Health Organization guidelines support, at Hlatikhulu Regional among adolescents worldwide. And on providing antiretroviral therapy to Hospital in Swaziland. Before he despite the reduced incidence of new all pregnant women living with HIV. enrolled in the club’s clinic for HIV infections in some regions, in children with HIV, Masotja told others – including Central and Eastern In Malawi, UNICEF helped strengthen UNICEF, his health was deterio- Europe and the Commonwealth of uptake and retention of PMTCT rating and he had no hope. Independent States, and the Middle services, early infant diagnosis, men’s But all that has changed. East and North Africa – the epidemic involvement in prevention efforts, Now Masotja regularly receives continues to grow, especially among and the recruitment of HIV-positive his antiretroviral therapy services the most disadvantaged segments of mothers as mentors. As a result, from the Baylor clinic at the the population. an estimated 85 per cent of the hospital. “When I first came country’s pregnant women with HIV to Baylor, I did not have many Gender and other social and economic were in treatment by the end of 2015, friends because I wanted to hide inequalities heighten the vulnerability compared to 73 per cent in 2014. the fact that I was living with of adolescent girls, in particular, to Many women initiated antiretroviral HIV,” he recalled in September HIV. In sub-Saharan Africa, girls therapy during breastfeeding to 2015. “Nowadays, it is very account for 7 in 10 new infections prevent transmission of the virus, and normal to say that you are among those aged 15−19. More than 95 per cent of infants exposed to HIV HIV-positive.” 5,000 young women and girls, the received antiretroviral prophylaxis. At the teen club adjacent to vast majority of them in southern the clinic, hundreds of adoles- Africa, acquire HIV every week. HIV and AIDS interventions in cents meet monthly to learn Globally, 25 children under age 14 are the second decade of life involve how to cope with the disease, infected with the virus every hour. responding to the alarming rate of adhere to their treatment HIV infections among adolescents. regimen and talk to others about UNICEF is tackling this crisis Worryingly, UNICEF reported in HIV in Swaziland, which has one through prevention and treatment November 2015 that the number of the highest HIV prevalence interventions focused on both the of adolescent deaths from AIDS rates in the world. Most of all, first and second decades of life. had tripled over the past 15 years. they support one another. UNICEF, the Government of Kenya UNICEF partners with the Interventions in the first decade and other partners have responded by Baylor College of Medicine to involve treating mothers and women launching All In, a new action platform support teen clubs in Swaziland of childbearing age who are living with aimed at dramatically reducing new and provide a continuum of HIV the virus. To that end, UNICEF and HIV infections and AIDS-related care that continues into early partners have focused on preventing deaths among adolescents and young adulthood – based on the con- mother-to-child transmission of people by 2030. The All In initiative viction that all children, including HIV – or PMTCT – as part of antenatal will engage, organize and empower adolescents living with HIV, have and postnatal care. The majority of adolescents as leaders and agents the right to grow into healthy pregnant women living with HIV in of change; improve data collection; and productive adults. low- and middle-income countries are encourage innovative ways to reach For his part, Masotja has being treated to prevent transmission adolescents with essential HIV learned to live positively with to their babies. services; and see that the issue of encouragement from his peers at HIV among adolescents becomes a the Baylor Teen Club. “Everything Early detection is key to effective central part of political agendas to is possible,” he said. paediatric treatment, but less than spur action and generate resources.

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 23 Life-saving information on HIV and AIDS is reaching adolescents through other innovative methods CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS as well. Zambia uses U-Report, Haiti: Fighting cholera with simple, cost-effective UNICEF’s mobile-based communi- solutions cation platform for young people, to provide one-on-one HIV counselling. And in Zimbabwe, the U-Report platform supported 2015 World AIDS Day efforts, connecting U-Reporters and trained peer educators in a total of 2,576 cases that addressed HIV transmission, testing, prevention, UNICEF Haiti/2015/Walther Haiti/2015/Walther UNICEF treatment and other challenges © faced by adolescents.

In our work on HIV prevention, UNICEF aims to reach young people at the highest risk – especially girls in sub-Saharan Africa, young gay, bisexual and transgender people, and intravenous drug users. Our emphasis is on proven prevention methods, such as male and female condoms, voluntary male circumcision, comprehensive sex education and pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis.

Guided by new data, UNICEF led a global consultation in 2015 on the “In the past, many people here to improved water sources, while role of pre-exposure prophylaxis got very sick,” Maria, 12, said over 70 per cent lacks access to (PrEP) in averting new HIV infections. in August 2015. “My friend got improved sanitation facilities. Cost- Participants considered the clinical, cholera. She almost died.” effective and relatively simple ethical and operational issues asso- Maria lives in Saint-Michel- interventions for clean water and ciated with administering oral PrEP de-l’Atalaye, a village in Haiti’s hygiene – including water points among older adolescents in higher-risk Artibonite department. While like the one in Saint-Michel-de- populations who are sexually active. Haitians continued to endure a l’Atalaye – can have a major impact five-year-long cholera epidemic on preventing these illnesses. HIV treatment is a critical intervention in 2015, Maria’s experience and Following a quick emergency often neglected in times of crisis. that of her village demonstrated response and improved disease In 2015, the Global Fund to Fight the clear links between access surveillance, Haiti has made sig- AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria gave to improved water sources and nificant progress in controlling the UNICEF an emergency US$3.7 mil- better health. spread of cholera. Between 2011 lion grant to secure a year’s supply “Last year they built a real and 2014, the number of cases of life-saving ART for 8,000 children water system, where everybody reported to the Ministry of Public and their families – and 31,000 HIV can come and get water,” Maria Health and Population dropped by tests for pregnant women – in areas said, referring to a water point more than 90 per cent. Still, the not under government control in supplied by a new well in her risk remains. eastern Ukraine. In Sierra Leone, village. “Since we have a water UNICEF and partners UNICEF supported a patient-tracing point, nobody has gotten cholera.” support the government-led project to ensure ongoing treatment The persistence of cholera and National Cholera Elimination Plan, and support for people living with HIV other waterborne diseases in the which relies on a combination during the Ebola outbreak. country stems largely from the of rapid response and long-term fact that more than 40 per cent of investment to address this acute ABOVE RIGHT: Haitian children carry the Haitian population lacks access health threat. drinking water from a newly established water point.

24 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Water, sanitation Nigeria, where overall indicators on and hygiene child survival and development are low, UNICEF piloted an intervention UNICEF UNICEF approaches water, sani- in 29 communities across two states helped tation and hygiene (WASH) as an in which WASH committees were reach essential triumvirate for community able to work with others involved health and well-being. Children and in antenatal care, birth registration, more than their families must have access to immunization and nutrition. As a safe drinking water. Communities result of this multisectoral work, must do away with open defecation immunization rates increased and 70 m in favour of basic toilets. And birth registration climbed by 450 per people with WASH good hygiene is key, especially cent in the piloted communities. interventions in 2015 handwashing with soap. Together, these measures help prevent the Girls’ education and WASH spread of infections and diseases, interventions are closely linked. and reinforce each other. Menstrual hygiene management, for instance, is a key component to Between 1990 and 2015, the propor- getting and keeping girls in school. gender-sensitive latrines, bath- tion of the global population using To reduce the social and physical rooms, sanitary towels and training. improved water sources climbed to hurdles for menstruating girls to In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, 91 per cent, passing the MDG target go to school, UNICEF and United we supported a pilot project in of 88 per cent. The proportion of the Nations Girls’ Education Initiative 13 rural schools that yielded lessons population with access to improved teamed up in 2015 in a multi-country on the roles of mentors for girls, sanitation rose to 68 per cent from project funded by the Government of strategies to foster positive social 54 per cent, and the proportion of Canada. change relating to menstruation, people practicing open defecation and the use of affordable, recyclable fell to 13 per cent from 24 per cent. In Mongolia, under the auspices sanitary napkins. Despite these gains, 663 million of UNICEF and with support from people still use unimproved water Emory University in the United In Pakistan, UNICEF and partners sources, including unprotected wells, States, the non-governmental distributed WASH kits in some of springs and surface water; some Center for Social Work Excellence re- the areas most affected by drought 2.4 billion people use unimproved searched the barriers that schoolgirls in 2015. Each kit contained soap, a sanitation facilities; and 946 million face. The research confirmed that a bucket, sanitary cloth for menstrual people still practice open defecation. dearth of private bathrooms – and a hygiene, and collapsible jerry cans lack of knowledge about menstrual for carrying water. The project Working with the World Health hygiene – kept girls out of school. used RapidPro, an open-source Organization and other partners, Subsequently, UNICEF teamed up communication platform, to monitor UNICEF advocated for universal with a national NGO and the Ministry its effectiveness via text messages access to safe drinking water, sani- of Education to develop and pilot from beneficiaries. tation and hygiene to be included in menstrual-hygiene guidance materi- the SDGs, with a focus on women als for schoolgirls. We also supported As a result of such efforts with and girls, to complete the unfinished the development of national norms partners around the world, UNICEF business of the MDGs. We also for WASH in schools, which con- helped reach more than 70 million formed strategic partnerships with tained specific requirements related people with WASH interventions in major WASH initiatives around to girls’ menstruation. 2015, including more than 45 million the world – including the global people in humanitarian crises. We partnership Sanitation and Water In three states in India, an estimated provided direct support for improv- for All – and continued supporting 394,000 adolescent girls from disad- ing WASH facilities and programmes improvements at the country level. vantaged communities, along with in nearly 26,000 schools globally, UNICEF led or co-led the humanitar- their parents and community health more than doubling our reach in ian cluster response for the WASH workers, received information on 2014. And we successfully advocat- sector in 66 countries, including in gender norms and misconceptions ed for 29 governments to include six complex emergencies in 2015. related to menstrual hygiene. In menstrual-hygiene management Kenya, 127 schools in 14 counties targets for WASH in their national WASH is inextricably connected to benefited from a UNICEF-supported education strategies. In all, UNICEF other sectors, including nutrition, menstrual hygiene management procured nearly US$96.4 million in health, education and gender. In programme and provision of WASH supplies throughout the year.

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 25 “UNICEF interventions have made a difference in increasing exclusive CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS Burkina Faso: Determined to reduce malnutrition rates breastfeeding rates in the context of both humanitarian action and development work.” UNICEF/UNI189371/Hubbard

Heavy rains that fell the night weighed, measured, checked and before did not deter the women treated, and to participate in ses- who arrived at the UNICEF- sions on how to improve her son’s supported Pelatenga Health nutrition. At this weekly check-up, Centre in northern Burkina Faso. the nurse gave David the all-clear The health centre is located in a and Salimata received 21 packets rural setting, and getting there of ready-to-use therapeutic foods poses many challenges. The to give him during the week. The women had walked or cycled on nurse also advised her to continue muddy paths to bring their babies breastfeeding the baby. for care and treatment. Salimata said David was much One of them, Salimata, carried healthier since he started receiving David, her 10-month-old son. treatment, although he was still While conducting a check-up cam- small for his age. paign in her village, health workers One major challenge is making had diagnosed David with severe sure that children like David do acute malnutrition and other not fall back into malnutrition complications. He subsequently once they are deemed healthy spent 17 days being treated at a enough to leave the recuperation health centre in another town, and programme. UNICEF works with was then enrolled in the malnu- the Government of Burkina Faso trition recuperation programme and NGO partners on outreach at Pelatenga. programmes, educating commu- As part of the programme, nities about using widely available Salimata brought David to the local products that can help meet ABOVE RIGHT: Salimata holds her 10-month-old son David at a health centre once a week to have him their children’s nutritional needs. centre where he was treated for malnutrition in Burkina Faso.

26 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Nutrition the universal right to food and feeding in at least 70 per cent of good nutrition. Ghana, a SUN local communities. UNICEF relies on a life-cycle approach member, has seen a decline in to nutrition, highlighting prenatal and stunting prevalence from 23 per UNICEF also recognizes that early childhood interventions and cent in 2011 to 19 per cent in 2014, children’s environments profoundly the critical role of other sectors such the latest year with available data. affect their nutritional status. In as WASH, health and food security Wasting prevalence among Ghanaian disadvantaged households, for ex- in preventing malnutrition. Good children is below 5 per cent, and ample, adolescent girls and women nutrition starts in the womb, and its the rate of severe wasting is 0.7 per are particularly susceptible to benefits can last a lifetime. cent. With UNICEF’s support, more anaemia and may face discrimination robust nutrition indicators have been in accessing nutritious foods. In With the World Bank Group and incorporated into Ghana’s district 2015, we worked with 91 countries the World Health Organization, health system. that crafted plans or policies to UNICEF in 2015 released Levels reduce anaemia among girls and and Trends in Child Malnutrition, a UNICEF interventions have made women. In India, we partnered with review of global trends from 1990 a difference in increasing exclusive the government to scale up weekly through 2014. It found that stunting breastfeeding rates in the context iron and folic acid supplementation prevalence had fallen from 39.6 per of both humanitarian action and for 2.5 million adolescent girls. cent to 23.8 per cent globally – but development work. Thirty-two that the total number of children countries are now on course to meet Unsafe drinking water can affected by stunting in Africa had the World Health Assembly target undermine child nutrition through risen. Globally, an estimated of more than 50 per cent of babies diarrhoea, parasites or intestinal 159 million children under age 5 being exclusively breastfed for the diseases. To overcome WASH- suffered from stunting due to chron- first six months of life. In Kenya, related challenges to good nutrition ic malnutrition and 50 million from the Democratic People’s Republic in 2015, we supported initiatives wasting due to acute malnutrition. of Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam, like a community-led total sanitation Accentuating the role of inequity, UNICEF has engaged the private programme in Mali, which mobilized low-income countries made the sector, civil society and other part- the residents of hundreds of least progress in stunting reduction, ners to enhance workplace policies villages to eliminate open defecation and almost all children under age 5 and promote breastfeeding. and its associated health risks. who experienced wasting were in The villages participating in this Africa or Asia. In Jordan during 2015, UNICEF behaviour-change effort increased facilitated an infant and young access to toilets, and child growth To help narrow such equity gaps, child-feeding programme in refugee indicators improved as a result. UNICEF plays a convening role with camps and host communities, pro- governments and other partners viding safe and calm breastfeeding In Mauritania, where rates of working on both development and areas and a roving van to reach global acute malnutrition soared humanitarian action. Within the remote locations. above the critical emergency Inter-Agency Standing Committee – threshold of 15 per cent in six out a forum of United Nations agencies Worldwide, UNICEF procured more of seven regions, UNICEF and the and others providing humanitarian than US$150 million worth of nutri- Ministry of Health developed a assistance – we serve as the lead tion supplies in 2015. We worked multisectoral response plan. More agency for nutrition in emergencies. with partners to support treatment than 18,000 children were treated UNICEF is also a leader in Scaling of more than 2.9 million children for severe acute malnutrition, with Up Nutrition (SUN), a partnership with severe acute malnutrition. a cure rate of 80 per cent. About that works across sectors, from And we supported programmes 70 per cent of the children received the highest levels of government in 25 countries to provide family nutrition kits and more than 500 to local communities, to promote counselling on infant and young child benefited from psychosocial stimulation. Their families received essential information on household nutrition practices. 2.9 m children with severe acute malnutrition treated

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 27 Education result, SDG 4 incorporates a strong UNICEF’s work on education emphasis on equity, learning, early continued to give high priority to Education is a fundamental right and childhood development and inclusive equity and learning, with particular one of the most wide-reaching and education. UNICEF provided attention to early learning, girls’ beneficial investments in develop- technical guidance, as well, on the education and education for children ment a society can make. It provides indicators that will be used to track with disabilities and those from the opportunities for children and progress towards reaching the SDG poorest households – as well as young people to acquire important education targets. Improved data, education in emergencies. work and life skills, helps people including disaggregated data on overcome poverty and contributes to marginalized populations, will be Our evidence-based approach to their health and well-being. crucial to effective monitoring. programming for equity extended to supporting governments’ Yet education is facing stark To collect data on a range of development of national Education challenges around the world. The education indicators – from Management Information Systems, substantial progress that has led to student and teacher absenteeism which provide disaggregated data on getting 100 million more children in to school infrastructure and the most marginalized children. Such school since 2000 has not kept pace functioning latrines – UNICEF has information is crucial to understand- with population growth – leaving launched EduTrac, a mobile-based ing and surmounting the obstacles 59 million primary school-aged monitoring system. Implemented these children face. We also con- children and 65 million children of during 2015 in the Central African tributed to building capacity at the lower secondary school age out of Republic, Malawi, Peru, Uganda and national level, publishing 14 technical school as of 2013. Even for many of Zimbabwe, the system is in various guides on how to make an education those in school, the quality of their stages of deployment from pilot to system more inclusive for children education remains so poor that they national scale. with disabilities and children from are learning very little. ethnic and linguistic minorities. And Overall, UNICEF and partners we worked in a number of countries And children continue to be supported improved learning to help address the problem of disproportionately denied their outcomes and inclusive education gender-based violence in schools. right to education due to income or in 156 countries through a range gender disparities; or discrimination of interventions in 2015. This work Quality teaching and learning are based on geography, ethnicity, combined policy advocacy with essential to make sure that all disability or language; or because of support for stronger education sys- children not only have access to conflict in their societies. In many tems, direct provision of education education but also gain valuable settings, for example, the sexual services and efforts to build demand knowledge and skills. In 2015, violence and harassment that for services that will reach the most UNICEF supported the development adolescent girls experience at school disadvantaged children. of an early learning policy in Sri deters them from completing their Lanka, guidelines on preschool secondary education. Along with our partners, UNICEF education in Afghanistan and a supplied individual learning materials new early childhood development To address these issues over the for 14.9 million children and educa- plan in Malawi. To better measure long term, UNICEF, UNESCO and tion materials for more than 348,000 learning outcomes, we developed a other partners played a central role classrooms during the year. We methodology for capturing data on in advocating for equitable, inclusive also provided approximately 49,000 early reading and numeracy skills education during discussions leading communities with training in school among children aged 7–14 as part of up to the adoption of the new global management and planning, school a new module in UNICEF’s Multiple goals in September 2015. As a health or inclusive education. Indicator Cluster Survey. This work

Along with our partners, UNICEF supplied 14.9 m 348,000 children with classrooms with learning materials education materials

28 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 supported life-skills workshops for about 13,000 adolescents, half CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS of them girls. In Latin America and Republic of the Union of Myanmar: The power of the Caribbean, we worked with education to build a common future the Global Business Coalition for Education on a campaign galvanizing action by students, communities, schools and the private sector to keep schools safe from armed violence.

UNICEF was also among a group of partners working in 2015 to develop a fund to better support education in fragile contexts. The Education Cannot Wait fund provides a timely opportunity to reform the financing and aid architecture UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Thame

© for education in emergencies – and to close the funding gap of US$8.5 billion for such work. It also has the Thu Zar Moe lives with her father Myanmar to work in neighbouring potential to strengthen coordination and four siblings at Thea Chaung Thailand as migrant labourers. in swiftly providing education in displacement camp, near Sittwe, When they returned to Sittwe, they emergencies and to forge more links the capital of Myanmar’s Rakhine did not have the right paperwork between humanitarian action and State. In 2012, her family fled to get Hlaing into the local school. development work. their home in Ahnauk San Pya Unable to attend regular classes, village because of intercommunal she joined a non-formal primary Throughout the year, UNICEF violence. Thanks to a temporary education scheme at Mingan reports and analyses helped learning centre supported by School, supported by UNICEF and advance the case for equitable, UNICEF in the camp and run by run by Myanmar Literacy Resource inclusive education. In January, the Lutheran World Federation, Thu Centres. Hlaing completed the UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute Zar has benefited from non-formal programme, and she has entered of Statistics launched the global primary education. formal school as a Grade 6 student. report, Fixing the Broken Promise In 2014, the top students from Although they belong to of Education for All, which helps the centre got a chance to go to a two different communities and identify who out-of-school children new government-run middle school live in different circumstances, are and the barriers they face. nearby. Thu Zar’s teacher said she both Thu Zar and Hlaing have In January, we released The was also likely to go to middle similar hopes and dreams, and Investment Case for Education and school – a major step on the path both see the value of education Equity, a comprehensive analysis towards reaching her full potential. for their future. Education has the of inequality issues in education, as In a village not far from the power to build on these shared well as their causes and remedies. camp, 11-year-old Hlaing Oo’s dreams and to bring children family struggles with poverty. A together to secure a common Through these and other efforts, few years ago, Hlaing’s parents left future for Rakhine State. UNICEF and partners strove to strengthen access to education and quality learning as a key to both advancing children’s rights advances the effort to monitor edu- 240,000 Lebanese and refugee and realizing the sustainable cation indicators in the SDGs, which children received school supplies for development agenda. encompass both school enrolment the 2015–2016 academic year. and learning outcomes. Throughout 2015, a total of 7.5 UNICEF and partners also distribut- million children in humanitarian ed learning materials to children in situations targeted by UNICEF ABOVE LEFT: Thu Zar Moe (right) with remote or conflict-affected areas. received education support. In her family at Thea Chaung displacement For example, in Lebanon, nearly the Syrian Arab Republic, we camp in Myanmar.

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 29 “UNICEF worked at Child protection civil society and the private sector multiple levels to in tackling online sexual exploitation prevent and respond to In 2015, millions of children around through advocacy, partnerships, the world remained subject to research and evidence-building. The violence against children, violence, exploitation, abuse and programme will focus on 17 core and to address the neglect. They faced sexual exploita- countries across six regions. underlying factors that tion (including online exploitation), put them at risk.” corporal punishment and bullying The #WeProtect Children Online in schools and in the home, child Global Summit, held in the United marriage, female genital mutilation/ Arab Emirates in November, was cutting (FGM/C), child labour, gen- a strategic opportunity to provoke der-based violence in emergencies deeper policy commitments and recruitment into armed forces on the issue of online sexual and armed groups. Still others, not exploitation. The summit brought yet victims, were at grave risk of together leaders from the public and being exploited and abused. private sectors, law enforcement, international organizations and UNICEF worked at multiple levels United Nations agencies to establish to prevent and respond to violence coordinated national responses to against children, and to address the protect vulnerable children. underlying factors that put them at risk. On another key issue, the First African Girls’ Summit on Ending Child In Uganda, we supported the Marriage saw more than 1,100 dele- national policy on violence in gates from 30 African Union countries schools that the government had commit to accelerating the end of rolled out in 560 schools across the practice. Complementing this 28 districts by the end of 2015. effort, the UNICEF report, A Profile In Namibia, we backed school of Child Marriage in Africa, presented policies – including policies against data trends and projections on child bullying – that hold teachers and marriage across the continent administrators more accountable and have reached 148 schools, UNICEF supported various actions affecting nearly 57,500 children. In to end child marriage at the country Afghanistan, the UNICEF-supported level. In Ghana, we helped the Child Protection Action Network government establish a Child is now functioning in 31 provinces Marriage Unit to coordinate national and 100 districts. In Georgia, we activities such as life-skills education helped develop a child-assessment and girls’ empowerment. We also screening tool for use by social supported initiatives to raise broader agents from the Ministry of Labour, public awareness about this issue. Health and Social Affairs. In Mozambique, the first national entertainment-education radio drama, Although the world remains a dan- Ouro Negro, reached more than gerous place for children, 2015 was 1.2 million people with messages on a year of remarkable achievements girls’ rights. In the Niger, the national in child protection. In September, radio station Voix du Sahel broadcast intensive efforts by UNICEF and many a musical series conveying similar other children’s advocates culminated messages, and through partnerships in the inclusion of child protection tar- with 10 local radio stations, the gets in the SDGs. This was especially series’ coverage extended to an esti- significant because child protection mated 85 per cent of the population. was not covered by the MDGs. Globally, UNICEF supported advo- Also in 2015, UNICEF established a cacy efforts aimed at strengthening groundbreaking global programme to national plans or strategies to end build the capacity of governments, child marriage in 30 countries. Nine

30 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 delivery, advocacy, social assistance programming, improved access to CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS informal and formal education, and Ukraine: Psychosocial support for children caught in conflict policy and legislative reforms. Our efforts reached more than 5.7 million children at risk of – or withdrawn from – child labour in 30 countries.

More than 9.7 million births were registered in 54 countries with support from UNICEF in 2015, and we made progress on national legislation UNICEF/UNI185983/Filippov

to prohibit corporal punishment in © the home, in schools, in alternative care and day-care settings, in penal institutions and as a sentence for criminal convictions. We also helped provide approximately 3.1 million children with psychosocial support.

In early 2015, the town of walls pierced by shrapnel. But it Child protection was an important part Debaltseve, positioned strategically was safe enough to welcome its of UNICEF’s response to every major in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, young pupils. humanitarian crisis in 2015, including became a locus of conflict. After the The emotional state of the chil- the large influx of child migrants and hostilities ended, Zoya Ovcharenko, dren was of far greater concern. In refugees – and especially unaccompa- headmistress of the town’s only March, a mobile team of volunteer nied and separated children – arriving operating kindergarten, and a psychologists arrived on-site to in Europe from the Middle East and specialist from the de facto Ministry work with them. It was one of North Africa. UNICEF Country Offices of Emergency went from basement three such teams operating with in the western Balkans supported the to basement, bomb shelter to bomb UNICEF in eastern Ukraine, where establishment of child-friendly spaces shelter, searching for small children psychosocial support was a major in six reception facilities and transit lo- hiding with their families. component of the 2015 emergency cations. By the end of the year, some “We even found newborn response. 81,000 children in the spaces had re- babies,” she recalled. “We had no By June, with funding from the ceived emotional, stress management idea they were there.” Swedish International Development and psychosocial support, family Ten days later, 35 children Agency, UNICEF Ukraine was able reunification services, and recreational had been offered places at the to train more than 100 teachers and and basic education services. kindergarten. The school building psychologists, and reach more than had sustained heavy damages, with 11,000 children – including those at While more must be done to address windows blown out and interior the kindergarten in Debaltseve. gender-based violence in the context of the European crisis, the work of UNICEF and partners in 2015 laid a countries now have costed action Secretary-General for Children foundation to expand these efforts. In plans to achieve this goal. and Armed Conflict, eight target all, we reached 57,515 children at risk countries – Afghanistan, Chad, the of sexual exploitation and abuse by On the issue of FGM/C, more than Democratic Republic of the Congo, providing safe spaces and information 2,000 communities across 14 countries Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, the about the risks associated with traf- declared an end to the practice in Sudan and Yemen – have now signed ficking in Croatia, the former Yugoslav 2015, and there is a new global target action plans with the United Nations Republic of Macedonia and Serbia. to eliminate it by 2030 under the SDGs. to prevent the recruitment and use of Meanwhile, the Gambia and Nigeria children. (Chad completed the require- passed legislation criminalizing FGM/C. ments of its action plan in 2014.)

As part of the Children, Not In the fight against child labour, Soldiers campaign, launched UNICEF provided a range of ABOVE LEFT: Children play at a in 2014 by UNICEF and the interventions during 2015. Among kindergarten in eastern Ukraine where a Special Representative of the others, these included service mobile team of psychologists visits.

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 31 Social inclusion UNICEF continues to push for ade- active users in 2015. Through this quate public investment in children, mobile-based SMS tool, young in the lead-up to the adoption of and for transparency, efficiency people can voice their opinions, the SDGs in September 2015, and equity in such spending. At the share information, connect with their UNICEF and partners advocated for Third International Conference on leaders and help bring change to child poverty reduction and social Financing for Development, held in their communities. inclusion to be part of the global Addis Ababa in July 2015, we called goals – because every child has the on nations to turn their promises to In a further effort to enhance partic- right to a fair chance in life, free of invest in children into concrete action ipation, UNICEF supported the 2015 extreme poverty and discrimination, by supporting equitable public financ- implementation of the Integrated and because sustainable develop- ing and child-focused budgeting. Community-based Participatory ment depends on children being Planning process in Ethiopia. The able to thrive as productive adults. A joint UNICEF-United Nations process allows community voices As a result of such advocacy efforts Development Programme study in – including those of women – to be and technical support, ending child Mexico examined whether public heard and reflected in local devel- poverty is identified as a target in spending on children there was opment plans. In Burkina Faso, we the global goals. equitable. For the first time, human continued to support the Common development among children and Gender Fund, which assists civil As co-chair of the newly formed adolescents was disaggregated society organizations working to Global Coalition to End Child by sex, age, ethnic identity, strengthen women’s participation in Poverty, UNICEF led workshops geographical location and income decision-making bodies. with Member States and develop- level. The study is a model for ment partners on the inclusion of other countries conducting national In terms of cash transfers – which child poverty in the SDGs. To help income surveys to improve the provide the poorest households countries start measuring their pro- impact of public policy and spending with social protection in the form gress towards ending child poverty, on children, and on overall social of regular grants – UNICEF worked we conducted a first-ever child pov- development outcomes. with more than 70 countries to erty and social protection mapping design, implement and scale up exercise with 157 Country Offices To help strengthen women’s and such programmes in 2015. Rigorous and 19 National Committees. children’s participation in public evaluations have demonstrated the In addition, we partnered with decision-making, UNICEF’s ground- consistent impact of cash transfers governments to address equity gaps breaking communication platform, on household poverty and well- in the design and implementation U-Report, reached at least 1 million being, with families’ investments of their social safety nets and other systems, including gaps based on gender and disability.

At a workshop held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in May 2015, UNICEF launched a three-year partnership with civil society partner BRAC International to support UNICEF/UNI197224/Khuzaie

Communication for Development initiatives for inclusive education. By © addressing harmful social norms and encouraging inclusion of the most marginalized children, such initiatives promote equitable access to education and quality learning outcomes for students from all backgrounds.

RIGHT: Ali, age 9, practices writing at a child-friendly space in Al-Takya Al-Kasnazaniya camp, Baghdad, Iraq.

32 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 often helping children to stay in school, improve their nutrition, CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS avoid child labour and gain access Sierra Leone: Two Ebola survivors share a common bond to health care. Women and and a common future female-headed households are often the recipients, and evidence suggests that the grants can help them improve their social status, financial security and participation in the labour force.

In one successful cash-transfer effort during the year, Ghana expanded its Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, UNICEF Sierra Leone/2015/Mason Sierra UNICEF

UNICEF partnered with governments to reach disadvantaged and displaced households with cash transfers in humanitarian situations as well. In Jordan, for example, we supported the launch of a child-centred cash grant programme among Syrian refugee families living in non-camp settings. Our A cash-transfer programme survivors and orphans, and children coordination with an existing cash supported by UNICEF in Sierra who have been sexually abused. assistance initiative run by the Leone has been helping Ebola “We are supporting these United Nations refugee agency survivors start over and build new children and their families made the programme cost-effective lives. Among the beneficiaries are because they are in real need,” and efficient. Over seven months, it Jariatu, a young child who lost said UNICEF Sierra Leone Child reached some 56,000 girls and boys most of her extended family to Protection Specialist David Lamin. from 15,000 of the most vulnerable the disease, and Emma, a young “Not only do survivors need to refugee families. woman who became her caregiver replace many of their possessions in 2015. destroyed when they tested “I never imagined taking care positive [for the Ebola virus], of a baby now or even in the near but the death of parents often future. But how could I abandon leaves children exposed to other her just like that?” Emma said. “I vulnerabilities, including violence, felt an instant bond.” exploitation and abuse.” The US$90 cash grants, Emma, like most recipients of provided in two instalments, the cash transfers, used the first are primarily meant to help start instalment to replace personal livelihood activities in support effects. She had more sustainable of children like Jariatu and their plans for the second instalment to families or caregivers. The grants benefit Jariatu. “I am going to use assist several different groups in this one to start a small business,” Kambia, Port Loko, Pujehun and Emma said, “so I can earn money ABOVE LEFT: Baby Jariatu eats a Moyamba districts, including Ebola to take care of her.” meal at her new home in Sierra Leone after losing most of her extended family to Ebola.

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 33 Gender equality

The world made substantial CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS progress on gender equality in Timor-Leste: Investing in girls’ education recent years, including gains on gender parity in both primary and secondary school enrolment. Wide gaps in access to education persist for the poorest girls, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In this and many other areas, however, gender-equitable results will require UNICEF/UNI197756/Nazer UNICEF/UNI197756/Nazer

accelerated efforts. ©

Worldwide, more than a quarter of girls are still being married before they turn 18, and one fifth of girls become mothers before they reach that age. More than 60 per cent of new HIV infections are among adolescent girls aged 15–19. And gender-based violence is endemic, especially in emergency In Lauana Groto, a dry, dusty another 62 in Timor-Leste, all with and settings. village high in the remote hills learning materials and teacher of Timor-Leste, life is not easy training. Schools like this are part In 2015, UNICEF and partners for families. For adolescents like of the Timor-Leste Government’s raised the profile of gender issues Delfina and Esperança, who are Eskola Foun (child-friendly through local action and national from the village, education offers school) initiative. policy advocacy – and by helping to hope for a better future. For Delfina, school is a place lay the groundwork for the newly A child-friendly school, to shine. “I like going to school,” adopted SDGs, which place the constructed and equipped with she said. “I like mathematics, empowerment of women and girls support from UNICEF, is offering natural sciences, Tetum [the front and centre. children and adolescents a safe, national language] and religious healthy and protective environment studies. I always get good grades The SDGs include goals on with the tools and facilities to learn in school – I’m number one in my ending violence against women and better. Delfina and Esperança have class.” Esperança thinks the new girls, and halting harmful practices seized the opportunity. school building is helping her learn such as child marriage and FGM/C. As of October 2015, UNICEF better. “I like school because I can Goal 3, on health, encompasses had helped build 59 child-friendly learn many things and be smart,” targets on maternal mortality, schools and was supporting she said. sexual and reproductive health, and HIV and AIDS. Goal 4, on education, looks to the elimination of gender disparities at the Beyond the SDGs, UNICEF education, promoting gender- secondary and higher levels, and in continued working for gender responsive adolescent health and terms of learning quality. And Goal equality in 2015 through both addressing gender-based violence. 6, on water, sanitation and hygiene, targeted initiatives and the incorporates the particular needs of mainstreaming of gender In line with the plan, UNICEF has women and girls, such as menstrual concerns across programme supported the development of hygiene management. areas. Our efforts were guided national adolescent and reproductive by UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan health strategies in Bangladesh, (GAP) 2014–2017, which provides Kenya, Mauritania and Rwanda. a programmatic framework for We have also helped heighten initiatives targeting gender-driven awareness about HIV and AIDS ABOVE RIGHT: Delfina, age 13, studies inequities across the board. GAP prevention among adolescents, at her UNICEF-supported child-friendly priorities include ending child particularly girls, by collaborating school in Timor-Leste. marriage, advancing girls’ secondary with UNAIDS and other partners,

34 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 and by co-leading the global launch teachers, as well as water points “Approximately 2 million of the All In initiative to stop the and boundary walls. girls, women and boys spread of HIV and AIDS among in 39 crisis-affected adolescents. The prevention of gender-based countries received violence is a key factor in determin- Because they are closely linked, ing girls’ attendance and retention elements of an expanded programming around each of the in school. In 2015, UNICEF co-led package of interventions GAP priorities furthers UNICEF’s the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk to prevent and respond results in all of them. For example, Reduction and Resilience in the to gender-based violence girls with secondary school Education Sector, which advocates in emergencies. education are six times less likely for safer girls’ transportation ” to marry as children, and therefore to school. educating girls also helps to reduce child marriage. Similarly, girls who On the issue of gender-based marry later are less likely to have a violence in emergencies – a growing first pregnancy during adolescence, concern as humanitarian situations to suffer from sexually transmitted proliferated – UNICEF worked with infections or to be subject to children and women at risk of abuse intimate-partner violence. and exploitation in the Central African Republic, Croatia, Myanmar, Partnerships were vital to UNICEF’s Nepal, Serbia, Somalia, South Sudan, gender-equality work in 2015, the Syrian Arab Republic, the former notably in our efforts to end child Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and marriage. During the year, we other countries affected by crisis and supported the first African Girls’ conflict. Meanwhile, approximately Summit on Ending Child Marriage 2 million girls, women and boys in in Africa, convened by the African 39 crisis-affected countries received Union and hosted by Zambia. We elements of an expanded package also joined forces with the United of interventions to prevent and Nations Population Fund and several respond to gender-based violence governments planning the Global in emergencies. This number is Programme to Accelerate Action to up from about 433,000 in 2013, End Child Marriage, set for launch reflecting the increased number in 2016. Focusing on 12 priority of humanitarian situations UNICEF countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the addressed in 2015. Middle East and South Asia, the programme will promote proven strategies to prevent child marriage, such as increasing girls’ access to UNICEF works to end education and health care services, child marriage because… providing more economic support to families, and strengthening and more than enforcing laws that establish 18 as the minimum age of marriage. 1/4 In 2015, 53 UNICEF country of girls programmes made girls’ secondary education a priority. One successful under 18 are initiative in Northern Nigeria married and increased women’s participation in leadership positions in school systems. In Afghanistan, adolescent 1/5 girls in 200 schools benefited from improved safety and security become through the UNICEF-supported mothers construction or rehabilitation of before they separate latrines for boys, girls and turn 18

PROGRAMME PRIORITIES 35 3. PARTNERSHIP, ADVOCACY AND INNOVATION

In 2015, we worked closely with a variety of allies in the public and private sectors, civil society, foundations and the United Nations – as well as UNICEF National Committees.

UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 As the international community came together “The strong presence in 2015 to adopt a new set of goals aimed at of child rights in Agenda 2030 reflects a building a better future for all people and for growing recognition that the planet, UNICEF and partners made sure sustainable development is impossible without that our call to action – for every child, a fair accelerated progress for chance – reverberated in the halls of national the most disadvantaged children.” capitals and at the United Nations.

All of the global goals for 2030 UNICEF was part of the Group adopted by the General Assembly of Friends on Children and the in September affect children’s lives SDGs that worked to influence in some way, with many of the the global goals. The partnership goals and targets speaking directly coalesced during intergovernmental to their health, nutrition, education, negotiations on the Sustainable safety and well-being. The strong Development Agenda and the presence of child rights in Agenda Third International Conference on 2030 reflects a growing recognition Financing for Development. The that sustainable development is group was instrumental in advo- BELOW: Vaccinators conduct impossible without accelerated cating for children’s rights during a UNICEF-supported campaign to progress for the most disadvantaged these consultations. immunize half a million children children and families. in Nepal. UNICEF/UNI198963/Karki

PARTNERSHIP, ADVOCACY AND INNOVATION 37 With an open, inclusive and cross- regional membership of United Nations Member States, the Group CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOCUS of Friends was announced by Burundi: Rechargeable lamps light the way to a fair the Permanent Representative of chance for children Pakistan and is co-chaired by the Permanent Representatives of Bulgaria, Luxembourg and Panama. NGO representatives, academic experts and children themselves are also regularly invited to attend meetings about children’s issues convened by this platform for advocacy and communication. UNICEF UNICEF Burundi/2015/NijimbereUNICEF

serves as the group’s technical Secretariat. ©

In 2015, we also worked closely with a variety of allies in the public and private sectors, civil society, foundations and the United Nations – as well as UNICEF National Committees engaged in child-centred advocacy, fundraising and education in 34 countries. For Diane, a secondary school smoke stains on the ceiling. The During the year, we expanded student in Muzima village, located smoke would get in my nose and our collaboration with the World in rural Burundi, a new project has would lead to coughing. Sometimes Bank, regional development banks made studying at night a lot easier. the flame would go out, and I and other international financial The days of struggling to decipher would have a hard time finding a institutions; took part in more than her class notes already seem like a new match in the dark to light the 70 global programme partnerships distant memory. lamp again. I have been using that in response to vital issues affecting In April 2015, Diane and her kerosene lamp for my entire life, children; and advanced South- younger siblings began using a since I started primary school.” South Cooperation through working rechargeable, long-lasting LED The ruggedly designed LED partnerships within and across lamp as part of UNICEF’s strategy lamps are a simple but effective regions. to introduce safe, affordable and alternative, powered by pedalling a renewable energy sources into the stationary bicycle that can recharge most disadvantaged households. up to five lights in only 20 minutes. The rechargeable lamps make The machines and lamps are a big difference in villages like distributed through local village Muzima, where few families have savings and loans associations, access to electricity. with the help of UNICEF partner “Before, I used a kerosene lamp FVS Amade. The earnings stay to study,” Diane said. “There was within the community, enhancing a lot of smoke – you can see the the sustainability of the project.

ABOVE RIGHT: Diane, a ninth-grader, studies by the light of a rechargeable lamp in Burundi.

38 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Advocacy and communication In September, before the United Nations General Assembly adopted Under the banner of child rights and the SDGs, UNICEF convened a gath- PARTNERSHIP IN FOCUS equity, UNICEF’s advocacy efforts in ering of experts on early childhood. UNITLIFE: Innovative 2015 focused on issues ranging from Dubbed a ‘Meeting of the Minds’ financing for nutrition the impact of climate change on chil- and hosted by Goodwill Ambassador in Africa dren to the urgent need for greater Shakira Mebarak, the event aimed at investment in adolescent health and advancing the case for investment well-being. In addition, the advocacy in ECD, in the context of the global In 2015, UNICEF agreed to host agenda encompassed efforts to pro- development agenda. UNITLIFE, a new financing part- mote quality education and gender nership that will use revenues equality, and to end violence against On these and myriad other issues from the extractive industries children, child marriage, child labour at the national, regional and global sector to fight malnutrition in and other abuses. levels, UNICEF served as a leading, sub-Saharan Africa. The partner- credible voice for children throughout ship is being championed by the On climate change, our message to the year. We also implemented our Republic of the Congo, Guinea, the COP21 conferees in Paris was Global Communication and Public Mali and Niger – with the sup- that the disruptions caused by overall Advocacy Strategy, which seeks, by port of Philippe Douste-Blazy, global warming lead not only to floods 2017, to reach 1 billion people globally the United Nations Secretary- and droughts, but also to food insecu- with messages about the world’s General’s Special Advisor on rity, lost agricultural income, migration most vulnerable children – and to Innovative Financing. It will and other hardships for the countries engage 50 million people in taking tap into new revenue through and communities – and children – least positive action on their behalf. national-level micro levies on equipped to cope with them. oil and other commodities to On the digital front, more than 9 mil- finance nutrition interventions In one advocacy effort that was lion people visited or interacted with on the African continent. also a model of UNICEF youth UNICEF’s web content in 2015, while engagement, more than 120 young our global fan base on social media people from 11 countries conducted stood at about 27.2 million at year digital mapping of local climate end. That total comprised Facebook In 2015, UNICEF also unveiled trends and used the results to push pages and Twitter handles from #FightUnfair, an initiative launched for meaningful commitments at the UNICEF headquarters, Regional and across social media channels and Paris Climate Conference. Organized Country Offices, National Committees aimed at engaging millennials in ad- in tandem with UNICEF, the French and Weibo accounts in China. The vocating for child rights, fairness and National Committee and assorted numbers positioned UNICEF as a equity. With a similar target group in country offices, the mapping took leader in social media, in terms of not mind, we introduced a platform for place between June and December. just the size of the base, but also the youth voices in the form of Twitter depth of user engagement. ‘takeovers’ in which young people On another issue, early childhood made use of UNICEF’s Twitter ac- development (ECD), UNICEF urged On Twitter, a UNICEF video of count for a day to raise awareness on governments and development part- Shakira covering John Lennon’s the issues they care about the most. ners to invest early, invest equitably song ‘Imagine’ at the United And we invited prominent young and invest in results. ECD interven- Nations General Assembly session digital influencers – such as Christine tions involve not only education, but reached 4.4 million people. The Mi, aka Miologie, on Snapchat, and also health, nutrition and protection video followed up the #IMAGINE Maya Washington, on YouTube – to as well. Millions of children under project, launched in late 2014, which join us at the 2015 United Nations age 5 need more opportunities for invited people around the world to General Assembly session in New growth, stimulation and learning in raise their voices with UNICEF and York and share the experience with their first crucial years. imagine a better world for children. their vast online audiences.

9 m 27.2 m people visited or interacted with UNICEF’s total global fan UNICEF’s web content in 2015 base on social media

PARTNERSHIP, ADVOCACY AND INNOVATION 39 © UNICEF/UNI181245/Jallanzo

Star power in service of children at risk. Ambassadors Beckham was on hand at the vulnerable children were instrumental in raising the General Assembly session, where visibility of our work in multiple he joined United Nations Secretary- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors emergencies during the year. General Ban Ki-moon, UNICEF once again reached wide audiences Djokovic and Goodwill Ambassador Executive Director Anthony Lake in 2015, raising global awareness Orlando Bloom, for example, and two young people from UNICEF and issuing calls to action on the made field visits to spotlight the Voices of Youth initiative, Noor biggest challenges facing children. needs of Syrian refugee children in Samee and Rodrigo Bustamante. Europe. Bloom also visited Nepal They unveiled a unique digital Sports figures have long to publicize and help raise funds for installation, designed for UNICEF by played a major role as Goodwill the earthquake response by UNICEF Google, which brought the voices Ambassadors, and 2015 was no and partners on the ground. of youth worldwide to the event at exception. In August, UNICEF United Nations Headquarters. announced that Novak Djokovic, In September, Goodwill the world’s top-ranked tennis player, Ambassadors Shakira Mebarak And in December, Goodwill was signing on as an Ambassador and Angélique Kidjo represented Ambassador Katy Perry starred in a for early childhood development. UNICEF at the United Nations UNICEF video produced in advance The year also marked football super- General Assembly session in New of the COP21 meeting on climate star David Beckham’s tenth anniver- York, where the new global goals change. The video featured Perry in sary as a Goodwill Ambassador. He were adopted. Following an a special ‘weather report’ highlight- marked the occasion by launching address from His Holiness Pope ing the impact of climate change 7: The David Beckham UNICEF Francis to the General Assembly, on children – particularly the most Fund, a new initiative to help protect the two singers delivered powerful disadvantaged, who bear the least performances before 100 Heads responsibility for this problem but ABOVE: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador of State and Government, will feel its worst effects. The video Orlando Bloom chats with a girl during a Messengers of Peace and other called for urgent action to change visit to Liberia. global leaders. the forecast for the planet’s future.

40 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Knowledge and innovation poll adolescents and young people “More than 90 per cent of on topics including education, UNICEF Country Offices Beyond broader public engagement, violence, unemployment, and HIV supported knowledge UNICEF also maintained its role as and AIDS. The Committee uses this exchange through peer a knowledge leader on children’s information to raise awareness and issues, contributing to achieving advocate for more equitable policies consultations, expert results for children through global affecting children and youth. visits, conferences and and regional research initiatives study tours.” in 2015. More than 90 per cent of The U-Report experience in Liberia UNICEF Country Offices supported provided a case study at a global knowledge exchange through consultation held in October, in peer consultations, expert visits, preparation for the 2016 World conferences and study tours. Humanitarian Summit. Participants recognized it as a useful tool for These efforts provided evidence real-time dialogue with affected on – among other issues – the populations during emergencies. importance of an equity dimension in the SDGs, as well as the In November, UNICEF, Finland’s effects of climate change and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and impact of violence on the most the Finnish National Committee vulnerable children. for UNICEF co-hosted the first Global Innovations for Children and Another key to driving results for Youth Summit in Helsinki, looking children is UNICEF’s emphasis on ahead to opportunities in the tech using innovative approaches to bet- industry that will have the biggest tering young lives and accelerating impact on children in the next five progress for those who are hardest years. The summit brought together PARTNERSHIP IN FOCUS to reach. With the launch of the approximately 500 representatives United States: Valued UNICEF Global Innovation Centre of private-sector, governmental funding for core work, in May 2015, we stepped up our and civil society organizations from emergencies and more leadership and technical support dozens of countries. for the roll-out of new solutions to the challenges facing millions In Myanmar, through a partnership The Government of the United of children worldwide. The centre with the Myanmar Computer States was the largest single aims to expand the application of Federation, we launched the Social donor to UNICEF in 2015, these solutions – many initiated Innovation Lab. The lab is a creative contributing a total of more by our partners – across national space bringing youth, academics, than $867 million – nearly $200 and regional boundaries. UNICEF’s business experts and policymakers million more than in 2014. This Innovation Fund, also launched in together to design fresh approaches total included support for core May, provides resources to quickly to challenges affecting children’s lives. operations around the world and assess, fund and replicate innova- US$509 million in contributions tions that work at a smaller scale. UNICEF’s joint effort with La for humanitarian assistance – an Caixa Foundation to fight childhood increase of $198 million from One such innovation is U-Report, pneumonia was yet another 2014. The added funding helped UNICEF’s mobile-based communi- partnership for innovation launched UNICEF address the growing cation platform. Launched in Uganda in 2015. The Spanish foundation is needs of children caught in in 2011, U-Report reached (and supporting a two-year initiative to protracted crises in Africa, surpassed) a milestone of 1 million pilot new diagnostic devices that can Central Asia and the Middle registered users worldwide in 2015. measure a sick child’s respiratory East. Beyond funding, the part- rate to check for fast breathing, one nership promotes dialogue and In Liberia – where the free service of the telltale signs of pneumonia. exchanges with United States was mobilized quickly in response Through this effort, UNICEF will public agencies and private- to the Ebola outbreak – there are run field trials of devices across sector partners on new ways to 63,000 U-reporters, with more than different regions to assess their ac- meet children’s needs through 61,000 recruited in 2015 alone. curacy, usability, effectiveness and both humanitarian action and The country’s U-Report Steering efficiency in the hands of frontline development expertise. Committee has used the platform to health workers.

PARTNERSHIP, ADVOCACY AND INNOVATION 41 Essential supplies provided support and technical as- and services sistance to help governments build PARTNERSHIP IN FOCUS their supply chain and procurement Republic of Korea: Supplies are a key to realizing capacity, and to move towards Committed to education, children’s basic rights. But to make securing financial sustainability. health and innovation the most of innovative products and Pre-financing mechanisms, for other supplies, children and families example, are helping governments must have ready access to them. manage funding delays that could The Government of the Republic This is true in both a development otherwise lead to supply shortages. of Korea is an increasingly context and in humanitarian Targeted use of special contracting important UNICEF partner in emergencies – especially in the arrangements can accelerate the terms of its support for our work poorest households in both low- and availability of needed supplies, help on education, maternal and middle-income countries. secure supplies at lower prices and child health, and innovation. The generate significant savings for government provided its largest The total value of supplies and countries and donors. contribution in 2015 – over services procured by UNICEF during US$44 million, an increase the year – including programmatic The year saw continued savings of more than 70 per cent activities and procurement ser- and cost avoidance through over 2014. Demonstrating its vices to governments and other price decreases, particularly commitment to education, the development partners – stood at savings achieved through special Republic of Korea hosted the more than US$3.4 billion (based on contracting arrangements and 2015 World Education Forum in released purchase orders created in strategic cooperation with partners. Incheon, sharing best practices 2015). There were some increases Ultimately, such savings mean that and experiences in strengthen- in the procurement of vaccine and more money is available to buy ing access to quality education education supplies, plus substantial more products for children who for every child. Under the growth in cold-chain equipment need them. Of the US$422.8 million Korea International Cooperation used to preserve vaccines during in savings resulting from price Agency’s Innovative Maternal storage and transport. decreases in 2015, US$346 million and Child Health Initiative, was related to UNICEF procurement funds from an airline ticket Maintaining support for access to on behalf of national governments levy targeting global poverty essential supplies is a challenge in and other partners. The most eradication supported UNICEF the face of growing demand and a substantial savings came from the programmes in Uganda and the rapidly changing global landscape large-scale procurement of rotavirus, United Republic of Tanzania. – one in which the majority of the inactivated polio and pentavalent The Republic of Korea is one of poor live in emerging middle-income vaccines, and long-lasting the core sponsors of UNICEF’s economies. To meet that challenge insecticidal nets. Global Innovation Centre, which in 2015, UNICEF effectively has identified and supported responded to shifts in the flow of UNICEF carried out more than the scaling-up of innovations official development assistance from 87 per cent of its 2015 procurement benefiting children in more than donor countries. In addition, we activities in collaboration with 50 countries to date. facilitated opportunities for countries other United Nations agencies. to use concessional loans from Our strategic supply partners development finance institutions to included the Bill and Melinda Gates pay for the procurement of supplies. Foundation; GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance; the Global Fund to Fight Building on previous supply efforts, AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; UNICEF focused on generating UNITAID; the World Bank; and the greater value for money. We World Health Organization.

$3.4b total value of supplies and services procured by UNICEF during the year

42 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 PARTNERSHIP IN FOCUS European Commission: Dialogue on education and health UNICEF/UNI193958/Khuzai

UNICEF and the European Commission’s Directorate- General for International Cooperation and Development Agency (DG DEVCO) joined forces to organize the first Partnership Dialogue on Education and Health in October 2015. The dialogue reflected an expanding partnership between the European Union and UNICEF, and is expected to lead to continued regular exchanges on education, and health policies and programmes. In addition, the European Union Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy for 2015−2019 incorporated guidelines mandating worldwide support for strengthened national child protection systems.

ABOVE LEFT: In Babylon Governorate, Iraq, a boy carries a Rapid Response Mechanism kit with essential supplies for his family.

PARTNERSHIP, ADVOCACY AND INNOVATION 43 4. FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY

UNICEF is committed to maximizing the impact of every dollar on improving children’s lives and realizing their rights.

UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 UNICEF’s income, which comes entirely in the form of voluntary contributions from PARTNERSHIP IN FOCUS End Violence Fund: the public and private sectors, totalled ‘Catalytic’ investment in US$5 billion in 2015. This level of support child protection reflects our resource partners’ continued UNICEF made a commitment in trust in UNICEF’s financial stewardship. 2015 to chair the End Violence Their generosity and commitment also signal against Children Fund, established to support the Global confidence in our ability to effectively and Partnership to End Violence against Children, among other efficiently meet the wide-ranging needs of activities. The fund does not intend to replace existing children and young people around the world, financing at country or global especially the most disadvantaged. levels, or to fund large-scale programmes. Instead, it aims to prove – through ‘catalytic’ investment – that evidence-based Public-sector revenue received by National Committees, individual programming yields tangible UNICEF in 2015 – including contribu- donors, NGOs and foundations came results, and that an investment tions from 136 governments, as well to about US$1.46 billion, up 4 per case can be made for national as intergovernmental organizations cent from the preceding year. child protection programmes. and inter-organizational arrangements – totalled US$3.46 billion, 6 From a budgetary standpoint, per cent less than in 2014. Private- UNICEF’s income is divided into sector contributions from UNICEF Regular Resources, which are

Total UNICEF revenue by source and funding type, 2015 (in millions of US dollars)

$97 (2%) $546 (11%) Other revenue* Governments: Regular resources $432 (9%) Inter-organizational arrangements: Other resources

$927 (18%) Total Private sector and non-governmental $5,009 organizations: million Other resources $2,477 (49%) $530 (11%) Governments: Other resources Private sector and non-governmental organizations: Regular resources

* Other revenue includes income from interest, procurement and other sources.

FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY 45 unrestricted, and Other Resources, cent over 2014. The increase resulted in 2015 – allowing the treatment which are limited to specific mainly from contributions for our of more than 84,000 severely programmes and themes. responses to the Syrian refugee malnourished children to continue crisis and the Ebola outbreak in West without interruption. In 2015, Regular Resources de- Africa, as well as major emergencies creased by 11 per cent, to US$1.17 in Iraq, Nepal, South Sudan, the billion, while Other Resources Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen. Efficient, effective, remained steady at US$3.84 billion. transparent Thus, Regular Resources stood at The scale and complexity of 23 per cent as a proportion of total such widespread and protracted Regardless of the sources or cate- revenue. By contrast, 15 years ago, crises underscore the need for a gories of income, UNICEF is com- Regular Resources represented ap- broad resource base and flexible mitted to maximizing the impact of proximately half of UNICEF revenue; funding. The High-level Panel on every dollar on improving children’s since then, the proportion of this Humanitarian Financing, appointed lives and realizing their rights. most preferred type of funding has by the United Nations Secretary- been declining. General in 2015 to look into funding We have established a Field Results gaps, highlighted that point on a Group, for instance, to strengthen Revenue received for humanitarian global scale. The panel concluded organizational systems for assistance amounted to US$1.78 that the best way to deal with results-based management. Another billion in 2015, an increase of 13 per growing humanitarian needs is to major achievement, in 2015, was address their root causes; target de- the opening of the Global Shared velopment assistance in situations Services Centre in Budapest. The of fragility; and invest in disaster centre, which opened in September, preparedness and resilience, es- serves various purposes − global PARTNERSHIP IN FOCUS pecially in the most vulnerable finance, human resources, adminis- Luxembourg: Outsized communities and countries. trative and information technology − support for the world’s in a consolidated hub for cost savings children For UNICEF, this conclusion and efficiency. bolsters the case for an increase in unrestricted Regular Resources, Meanwhile, efficiencies in contract- Luxembourg ranked third in which are the foundation of our ing and procurement, particularly 2015 in terms of per capita operations worldwide. Because they in the procurement of life-saving government contributions to are not earmarked, such funds allow vaccines, netted savings of nearly UNICEF, at US$12.40 for each us to respond quickly to emerging US$423 million in 2015 alone – and inhabitant. The government challenges and invest in innovative more than US$1 billion from 2012 both supports UNICEF’s core approaches. They strengthen our through 2015. programmes and provides efforts to build more equitable thematic funding with multi-year opportunities for the healthy devel- We have made strides, too, in contributions towards health, opment of every child in countries promoting transparency and WASH, nutrition and education with large youth populations and accountability. In fact, UNICEF is initiatives. Luxembourg has high levels of poverty and child now ranked third out of 46 major also supported UNICEF’s mortality. And they help break down organizations worldwide on the humanitarian responses in South the often limiting barrier of separate International Aid Transparency Index. Sudan and Guinea through financing ‘buckets’ for humanitarian The index also recognizes UNICEF as , a digital action and development work. the organization that has made the platform that can be deployed in most significant progress since 2013. the first hours of an emergency For example, Regular Resources to fill communication gaps. And support the Emergency Programme UNICEF extends a deep and heart- the small country has played Fund, a revolving fund that enables felt thank you to all the partners who an outsized role at the United UNICEF offices to get critical supported our work in 2015. Your Nations as co-chair – along with supplies and deploy personnel contributions made the progress Bulgaria and Panama – of the where they are needed even outlined in this report possible – Group of Friends of Children and before humanitarian appeals can frequently against the odds – for the the Sustainable Development be launched. The fund was instru- world’s poorest and most disadvan- Goals, an informal advocacy mental in maintaining the nutrition taged children. Together, we have coalition of 47 Member States. supply line in the drought-stricken come closer to achieving our shared Sahel region amid funding gaps goal: for every child, a fair chance.

46 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 UNICEF revenue, 2007–2015* (in millions of US dollars)

$4,000

$3,500

$3,000

$2,500

$2,000

$1,500

$1,000

$500

0 2007 2009 2 011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Regular resources Other resources (regular) Other resources (emergency)

* Prior to 2012 and International Public Sector Accounting Standards adoption, UNICEF issued Financial Statements every two years.

Top 20 government and intergovernmental resource partners to UNICEF, 2015 (in thousands of US dollars)

COUNTRY REGULAR RESOURCES OTHER RESOURCES TOTAL Regular Emergency United States 132,000 226,901 508,831 867,732 United Kingdom 60,355 281,464 170,340 512,158 European Commission - 112,306 171,078 283,384 Germany 9,537 14,568 197,957 222,062 Sweden 62,396 89,220 22,255 173,871 Norway 57,870 84,673 18,006 160,550 Japan 18,231 18,744 123,554 160,529 Canada 12,970 69,650 71,923 154,543 Netherlands 21,324 57,102 52,993 131,419 Denmark 31,878 5,375 9,274 46,527 Australia 14,706 27,816 2,971 45,492 Kuwait 200 - 45,000 45,200 Republic of Korea 3,900 32,777 7,650 44,327 Switzerland 28,589 10,004 4,564 43,158 Finland 22,099 3,143 7,610 32,853 Belgium 19,355 551 10,658 30,564 Saudi Arabia 1,144 2,372 17,301 20,818 France 3,870 8,580 7,954 20,403 Italy 3,486 5,067 8,788 17,341 Ireland 7,965 4,380 4,085 16,429

Note: Numbers may not add up because of rounding.

FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY 47 Per capita contributions to UNICEF, 2015* Member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (in US dollars)

Norway $33.66

Sweden $26.08

Luxembourg $19.45

Iceland $19.30 Denmark $12.38

Netherlands $11.00

United Kingdom $9.25

Finland $8.64

Switzerland $7.96

Canada $4.66

Ireland $4.59

Belgium $4.11

United States $3.66

Germany $3.63

New Zealand $3.51

Republic of Korea $2.75

Australia $2.41

Japan $2.22 Spain $1.29

France $1.14 Italy $0.77

Austria $0.71

Slovenia $0.56

Portugal $0.45

Czech Republic $0.25

Greece $0.18

Poland $0.08

Slovakia $0.05

0 $5 $10 $15 $20 $25 $30 $35

* Includes contributions from governments and UNICEF National Committees.

48 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Top 10 countries by donor and funding type, 2015* (in millions of US dollars)

$800

$700

$600

$500

$400

$300

$200

$100

0 United United Germany Japan Sweden Norway Canada Republic France States Kingdom Netherlands of Korea

Government: Regular resources Private Sector: Regular resources Government: Other resources Private Sector: Other resources

* Includes contributions from governments and UNICEF National Committees; excludes intergovernmental, non-governmental, inter-organizational and pooled funds contributions.

Thematic contributions, 2014–2015 (in millions of US dollars)

OUTCOME AREAS 2014 2015 Health 18 15 HIV/AIDS and Children 12 7 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 20 49 Nutrition 5 10 Education 116 83 Child protection 22 18 Social inclusion 9 4 Gender equality - - Humanitarian action 139 204 Total 341 390

Note: Numbers may not add up because of rounding.

FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY 49 Top 20 National Committee donors, 2015 (in thousands of US dollars)

COUNTRY REGULAR RESOURCES OTHER RESOURCES TOTAL Regular Emergency United States 17,421 262,454 30,714 310,588 Japan 92,769 8,380 19,312 120,461 Republic of Korea 76,252 11,219 6,461 93,932 United Kingdom 21,415 32,662 32,557 86,635 Sweden 31,439 41,196 9,091 81,727 Germany 33,625 18,836 18,478 70,939 Spain 35,306 9,338 10,431 55,075 Netherlands 34,839 10,887 8,699 54,425 France 39,141 8,436 5,418 52,995 Italy 18,333 3,405 6,999 28,738 Denmark 10,363 6,664 6,999 24,026 Switzerland 6,712 11,433 4,763 22,908 Hong Kong, China 11,115 4,876 4,196 20,186 Belgium 11,369 2,017 2,480 15,865 Finland 10,725 2,358 1,562 14,646 Norway 8,083 1,947 4,477 14,508 Canada 3,353 3,909 5,582 12,844 Australia 4,866 2,779 4,687 12,331 New Zealand 1,557 946 3,962 6,465 Ireland 2,567 1,717 877 5,161

Note: Numbers may not add up because of rounding.

Private foundations and major donors contributing $100,000 or more to UNICEF programmes in 2015

A.P. Møller og Hustru Christine Elbert H., Evelyn J., and Karen H. Isdell Family Foundation Ms. Carrie D. Rhodes Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond Waldron Charitable Foundation Japan Committee Vaccines for the Mrs. Sally Roberts and Mr. John ABBA The Museum/ABBA Eleanor Crook Foundation World’s Children Roberts AJA Charitable Fund The ELEVA Foundation Joe Jarvis Rockefeller Foundation The Ajram Family Foundation ELMA Philanthropies Kiwanis International Foundation/ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rogers Al Khayyat Foundation Elton John AIDS Foundation Kiwanis International Michael Rosenberg Moll Anderson Emirates Red Crescent Peter and Deborah Lamm Rotary Foundation of Rotary Band Aid Trust Eva Ahlström Foundation LDS Charities International Mr. and Ms. Paula H. Barbour Lord and Lady Farmer Ms. Téa Leoni Serena Simmons Connelly Eric and Kirsty Bendahan Fatima Fund Penny and Paul Loyd Barbara and Edward Shapiro Big Lottery Fund FIA Foundation Ivy Luk Gowri and Alex Sharma The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fondation Espoir Malala Fund Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus W. Spurlino Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Brinker Fundación Carlos Slim Bob and Tamar Manoukian Stammbach Foundation Giuseppe Boccalatte Fundación Leo Messi Charles, Jamie, and Lucy Meyer Supin Moleenon Rojanapruek Susan and Dan Boggio G. Barrie Landry and the Landry Family Midler Family Foundation Mr. Jeff E. Tarumianz Mr. and Mrs. Marc Bolland Foundation Frantz Hoffmanns Mindelegat Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Dr. and Mrs. Peter Bolland George Lucas Family Foundation Aditya and Megha Mittal Foundation Daniel J. Brutto GHR Foundation Gareth and Jo Morgan Mr. George Tometti Cathal Ryan Trust GlobalGiving Mr. Joseph T. Moynahan Unite 4: Good The Charles Engelhard Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Karl A. Gschneidner National Philanthropic Trust United Nations Foundation Child & Tree Fund Mr. H. Stephen Harris, Jr. and Ms. Nenäpäivä-säätiö Mr. Jeffrey Urbina and Ms. Gaye Hill Children’s Investment Fund Foundation Shigeko Ikeda New Era Educational and Charitable Varkey Foundation Comic Relief Helaina Foundation Foundation Jina and Bruce Veaco Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Mr. Vince Hemmer Novak Djokovic Foundation Mr. Robert J. Weltman The Danson Foundation Hempel Foundation Oak Foundation Brad and Katherine Wickens Mr. and Mrs. William Dietz, Jr. The Herbert Simon Family Foundation Christine M.J. Oliver William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Steve Eaton Mr. John A. Herrmann Open Society Foundations The Wilson Family Foundation Educate a Child (EAC), a programme The Hoglund Foundation Operakällaren Foundation Peter and Jan Winslow of the Education Above All Houssian Family Foundation Mr. Omar Qaiser and Ms. Asyah Khan Worldwide Charity for Children Foundation IKEA Foundation Relief for Distressed Children and Mr. and Mrs. Carol Edwards Impetus Foundation Young People

50 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Corporate sector alliances contributing $100,000 or more to UNICEF programmes in 2015

MULTI-COUNTRY ALLIANCES Celpa PT Terrific International Eroski Fundação Itaú Tanoto Foundation Fundación Aquae Amadeus [Iberia LAE S.A. (Spain), Finnair Fundação Telefônica UNILEVER Indonesia Foundation Fundación Bancaria La Caixa (Finland), Norwegian Air Shuttle Google Brasil Fundación Iberostar (Norway)] UNICEF Ireland ICSS – International Center for Sports Fundación Probitas Belarto Fyffes Security Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti Iberica, SLU Bestseller Petrobras Italian Committee for UNICEF Orange Espagne S.A.U. Bulls Presstjänst AB TIM Agos Change for Good® [Aer Lingus Swedish Committee for UNICEF Unilever Brazil Energizer (Ireland), All Nippon Airways (Japan), General Assurances Brynäs Hockey American Airlines (US), Asiana Bulgaria UBI Banca Gina Tricot Airlines (Republic of Korea), Cathay Happy Bar & Grill IKEA Japan Committee for UNICEF Pacific (Hong Kong, China), easyJet Piraeus Bank Bulgaria AD Foretag for Malawi AEON 1% Club Foundation (United Kingdom), Japan Airlines Postbank Consumers’ Co-Operative Kobe Swiss Committee for UNICEF (Japan), Hainan Airlines (China), Canadian UNICEF Committee Consumers’ Co-Operative Mirai Cartier Charitable Foundation Qantas Airways Ltd. (Australia)] JoMedia Consumers’ Co-Operative Sapporo Roche Employee Action and Charity Trust Claire’s Europe Newalta Corporation Co-op Net Business Association Julius Bär Foundation Cubus AS Pier 1 Imports Fuji Television Network, Inc. (FNS Kiwanis District Switzerland- DLA Piper Teck Resources Ltd. Charity Campaign) Liechtenstein Groupe Editor Chile Gulliver International Co., Ltd. Thailand European Club Association (ECA) BHP Billiton Hiroshima Consumers‘ Co-Operative Sansiri Public Company Ltd. Environmental Mobile Control Ltd. (EMC) Society Forletter China Turkish National Committee for UNICEF Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Futbol Club Barcelona Chongqing Haier Home Appliances Elca Kozmetik Ltd. Şti ITOHAM FOODS Inc. Gucci China Hewlett-Packard Co., Ltd. Carrefour SA Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB HNA Group Co., Ltd. Kao Corporation United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF H&M Foundation Porsche (China) Motors Ltd. Miyagi Consumers’ Co-Operative ARM Holdings Hallmark Colombia Society BT Group plc Humble Bundle Grupo Familia Oriental Land Co., Ltd. Burberry ING Supermercados Olímpica Osaka Izumi Co-Operative Society Clarks Kantar Group Danish Committee for UNICEF Osaka Pal Co-op EE Ltd. Kimberly-Clark Foundation Maersk Drilling Palsystem Kanagawa Consumers’ England Footballers Foundation The LEGO Foundation Co-operative Ethical Tea Partnership LEGO Group Dutch Committee for UNICEF SARAYA Co., Ltd. ITP Trust LINE Plus Cooperation Den Haag Sugarlady Inc. Kingfisher M·A·C AIDS Fund Djoser Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation London Stock Exchange Marks & Spencer plc KLM Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company, Ltd. Manchester United FC Meliá Hotels International Mercis The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. Twinings MSC Cruises S.A. Schiphol Group U-COOP Consumer Co-Operative Society Rangers FC Nordic Choice Hotels AS World of Delights Holding Volvic United States Fund for UNICEF Philips Foundation Ecuador Al-Monitor Pictura Diners Club International Korean Committee for UNICEF Able C&C Co., Ltd. Alexander McQueen Privalia Venta Directa S.A. France Apple Matching Gifts Program Procter & Gamble (Pampers, Wella) Daehong Communications Clairefontaine Daehan Metal Applied Medical Star Wars: Force for Change Domoti Temps L Autonomy Capital Starwood Hotels & Resorts (Check Out E&B Fondation Chanel Eider Barneys Inc. for Children®, Road to Awareness®, Gémo Baxter International Foundation Make a Green Choice®) Hansae Kindia Shinsegae International Becton Dickinson Pharmaceutical Telenor Group La Banque Postale Systems The UPS Foundation SPC Group L’Oréal YG Entertainment Exxon Mobil Corporation The Walt Disney Company Volvic GE Foundation Unilever (The Unilever Foundation and Norwegian Committee for UNICEF German Committee for UNICEF Georgia-Pacific Domestos & Dirt is Good) IKEA (Norway) Google Inc. UNIQLO BASF Stiftung KIWI Norge AS DEKRA SE GP Cellulose Vertbaudet Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA HSN, Inc. Western Union Foundation Deutsche Telekom AG Statoil HUGO BOSS AG Jamberry Varner Johnson & Johnson, Inc. NATIONAL ALLIANCES PAYBACK GmbH United Internet for UNICEF Foundation Mexico JP Morgan Chase Bank Argentina WMF Group Grupo Financiero Santander México, Intel ACE Seguros S.A.B. de C.V. L’Oréal USA – Giorgio Armani Fragrances Banelco Hellenic National Committee for Laboratorios Liomont Mariner Investment Group, LLC Carrefour UNICEF Kimberly-Clark Medtronic Foundation OCA Diners Club of Greece S.A Microsoft Corporation Giving Campaign Olympiacos F.C. Philippines Procter & Gamble Argentina Johnson & Johnson NCR Foundation Unilever Argentina (Ala) Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF PayPal Giving Fund Romania Australian Committee for UNICEF Crystal Group Pfizer Inc. Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Company Ltd. Kaufland Prestige Fragrances Inc Commonwealth Bank of Australia Romgaz MMG Ltd. Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation Ltd. Prudential Foundation International Cricket Council K. Wah Group South Africa S’well New Land Development Ltd. Santam Target Corporation Belgian Committee for UNICEF Wells Fargo Buy Aid India Spanish Committee for UNICEF IZA Exide Industries Ltd. Abanca Venezuela Umicore IDBI Bank Ltd. Banco Santander Bancamiga Indonesia BBVA Brazil El Cortes Inglés Ache Lab Farmaceuticos S.A. PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk (Alfamart)

FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY 51 Total UNICEF revenue by source of funding, 2015 (in US dollars)

OVERVIEW

Regular resources Other resources Public sector Private sector Public sector Private sector Inter- Inter- National Other National Other Government organizational Government organizational Total Committees contributions Committees contributions arrangements arrangements Donor countries 545,989,290 – 499,307,753 30,135,179 2,193,924,018 – 648,765,827 164,924,893 4,083,046,961 Intergovernmental – – – – 282,979,487 – – – 282,979,487 agencies Non-governmental – – – 814,996 – – – 112,949,018 113,764,013 organizations Inter- organizational – 5,851 – – – 432,356,724 – – 432,362,575 arrangements Other revenue – – – – – – – – 97,404,434 Grand Total 545,989,290 5,851 499,307,753 30,950,175 2,476,903,506 432,356,724 648,765,827 277,873,911 5,009,557,471

1. DONOR COUNTRIES (Public sector: government)

Regular resources Other resources Public sector Private sector Public sector Private sector Donor National Other National Other Government Government Total countries Committees contributions Committees contributions Afghanistan 68,853 – – – – – 68,853 Andorra 28,002 – – 84,896 320,579 – 433,476 Angola 1,660,000 – – – – – 1,660,000 Argentina 180,000 – 6,933,961 – – 21,482,366 28,596,326 Armenia 116,590 – – – – 102,694 219,284 Australia 14,705,882 4,865,867 – 30,786,452 7,465,360 – 57,823,561 Austria 1,111,111 2,329,670 – 1,472,635 1,095,345 – 6,008,761 Azerbaijan 19,833 – – 80,025 – – 99,858 Bahrain – – – – – 13,300 13,300 Bangladesh 34,500 – – – – – 34,500 Barbados 185,000 – – – – – 185,000 Belgium 19,355,309 11,368,785 – 11,208,992 4,496,664 – 46,429,750 Belize – – – 112,635 – – 112,635 Benin 24,124 – – – – – 24,124 Bhutan 28,553 – – – – – 28,553 Bolivia (Plurinational 40,000 – – 225,000 – 69,193 334,193 State of) Brazil 1,618,600 – 1,031,536 – – 11,001,189 13,651,325 Bulgaria 75,500 – 82,165 40,000 – 1,215,127 1,412,792 Burundi – – – 627,330 – – 627,330 Cabo Verde 350,000 – – – – – 350,000 Cambodia – – – 122,681 – – 122,681 Cameroon 92,900 – 5,184 – – – 98,084 Canada 12,970,376 3,352,529 – 141,572,710 9,491,052 – 167,386,668

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Regular resources Other resources Public sector Private sector Public sector Private sector Donor National Other National Other Government Government Total countries Committees contributions Committees contributions Central African 110,050 – – – – – 110,050 Republic Chile 77,000 – 446,927 (6,372) – 2,492,505 3,010,060 China 1,629,038 – 319,712 – – 10,205,492 12,154,242 Colombia – – 501,000 – – 3,356,071 3,857,071 Comoros 70,000 – 18 901,771 – – 971,789 Congo 748,450 – – 2,249,858 – – 2,998,308 Costa Rica 9,897 – 49 – – 8,984 18,930 Côte d’Ivoire 12,600 – – 7,331,170 – – 7,343,770 Croatia 52,387 – 293,698 – – 2,745,529 3,091,613 Cuba 10,000 – – – – – 10,000 Cyprus – – 66,026 – – – 66,026 Czech – 1,392,574 – 205,052 1,006,907 – 2,604,533 Republic Democratic People’s 785,000 – – – – – 785,000 Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of 320,642 – – 15,183,667 – – 15,504,309 the Congo Denmark 31,877,930 10,363,416 – 14,648,999 13,662,525 – 70,552,870 Dominican 88,000 – 573 – – 159,456 248,029 Republic Ecuador – – 285,052 – – 2,824,461 3,109,513 Egypt – – – 168,318 – 172,509 340,827 Equatorial 102,672 – – 2,337,422 – – 2,440,094 Guinea Estonia 345,530 16,325 – 409,955 – – 771,810 Ethiopia 315,846 – – 136,275 – – 452,121 Finland 22,099,448 10,724,884 – 10,753,183 3,920,649 – 47,498,164 France 3,869,625 39,141,171 – 16,533,806 13,853,868 – 73,398,469 Gambia – – – 521,500 – – 521,500 Georgia 158,500 – – – – – 158,500 Germany 9,537,409 33,625,080 – 212,524,647 37,314,012 – 293,001,148 Ghana 148,512 – – – – – 148,512 Greece – 1,381,901 – – 580,624 – 1,962,525 Guinea 350,000 – – 15,564,608 – – 15,914,608 Guinea-Bissau 621,000 – – 297,605 – – 918,605 Hong Kong, – 11,114,615 – – 9,071,293 – 20,185,908 China Hungary 965,043 164,643 – 150,000 215,196 – 1,494,882 Iceland 738,332 2,902,373 – 1,747,337 401,082 – 5,789,124 India 979,105 – 56,227 189,570 – 10,818,814 12,043,716 Indonesia 285,033 – 630,247 – – 5,289,264 6,204,544 Iran (Islamic 52,371 – 601 – – – 52,972 Republic of) Iraq 48,785 – – – – – 48,785 Ireland 7,964,602 2,567,045 – 8,464,847 2,593,839 – 21,590,333 Israel 100,000 – – – 227,636 20,000 347,636 Italy 3,485,839 18,333,077 – 13,855,468 10,404,611 – 46,078,995 Japan 18,231,209 92,768,993 – 142,298,275 27,692,069 – 280,990,547 Jordan 2,000,000 – – – – 157,171 2,157,171 Kazakhstan 226,970 – – – – – 226,970

FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY 53 Total UNICEF revenue by source of funding, 2015, continued

Regular resources Other resources Public sector Private sector Public sector Private sector Donor National Other National Other Government Government Total countries Committees contributions Committees contributions Kenya 150,192 – – 95,805 – 182,018 428,014 Kuwait 200,000 – – 45,000,000 – 32,705 45,232,705 Kyrgyzstan 50,000 – – – – – 50,000 Latvia – – – 21,786 – – 21,786 Lesotho 120,000 – – – – – 120,000 Liberia 104,598 – – 17,459,917 – – 17,564,515 Liechtenstein 24,900 – – – – – 24,900 Lithuania – 1,318 – 96,787 62,210 – 160,315 Luxembourg 3,036,287 1,523,057 – 4,389,173 2,722,625 – 11,671,142 Madagascar – – – 1,000,000 – 44,563 1,044,563 Malawi – – – – – 64,706 64,706 Malaysia 362,735 – 7,212,847 100,000 – 4,770,126 12,445,709 Mali 108,500 – – – – 231,313 339,813 Malta – – – 38,571 – – 38,571 Mauritania 20,610 – – – – – 20,610 Mexico 214,000 – 387,294 104,562 – 45,076,925 45,782,781 Monaco 12,155 – – 70,326 – – 82,481 Mongolia 105,391 – – – – – 105,391 Montenegro 18,912 – – – – – 18,912 Morocco 99,883 – – – – – 99,883 Mozambique 17,979 – – – – – 17,979 Myanmar – – – – – 44,745 44,745 Namibia 120,000 – – – – – 120,000 Nepal – – – 7,200,000 – 610 7,200,610 Netherlands 21,324,355 34,838,564 – 110,095,129 19,586,433 – 185,844,481 New Zealand 4,363,636 1,557,041 – 4,968,019 4,908,183 – 15,796,880 Nicaragua 42,500 – – – – – 42,500 Nigeria 1,660,764 – – 32,354,716 – 151,582 34,167,063 Norway 57,870,370 8,083,351 – 102,679,768 6,424,197 – 175,057,686 Oman – – – 1,174,871 – 1,316 1,176,187 Pakistan 56,335 – – 98,262 – 12,795 167,391 Panama 741,750 – – 300,000 – – 1,041,750 Paraguay – – – 270,000 – 674,862 944,862 Peru – – 14,910 – – 685,518 700,428 Philippines 53,832 – 779,182 – – 4,534,951 5,367,965 Poland – 1,355,362 – – 1,765,998 – 3,121,360 Portugal 20,000 2,468,037 – – 2,157,806 – 4,645,843 Qatar – – – 500,000 – 15,700,653 16,200,653 Republic of 3,900,000 76,252,905 – 40,427,186 17,680,185 – 138,260,275 Korea Republic of 60,000 – – – – 215,000 275,000 Moldova Romania 50,000 – 1,610 50,000 – 1,137,630 1,239,241 Russian 1,000,000 – – 3,800,000 – 28,784 4,828,784 Federation Sao Tome and 19,500 – – – – – 19,500 Principe Saudi Arabia 1,144,200 – 45 19,673,362 – 76,100 20,893,707 Senegal 285,954 – – – – – 285,954 Serbia 51,000 – 27,222 – – 592,533 670,755 Sierra Leone 384,000 – – 7,624,374 – – 8,008,374 Singapore 50,000 – – – – 5,212 55,212 Slovakia – 90,366 – – 191,168 – 281,534 Slovenia – 689,224 – 88,136 396,160 – 1,173,520 Somalia 733,000 – – – – – 733,000

54 UNICEF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Total UNICEF revenue by source of funding, 2015, continued

Regular resources Other resources Public sector Private sector Public sector Private sector Donor National Other National Other Government Government Total countries Committees contributions Committees contributions South Africa 210,697 – 801 43,403 – 1,234,106 1,489,006 South Sudan 189,348 – – – – – 189,348 Spain – 35,306,026 – 4,589,497 19,768,862 – 59,664,384 Sri Lanka 15,500 – – – – – 15,500 Sudan 131,400 – – – – 2,987 134,387 Sweden 62,396,006 31,439,249 – 111,474,665 50,287,672 – 255,597,593 Switzerland 28,589,365 6,712,344 – 14,568,226 16,196,198 – 66,066,134 Tajikistan 32,400 – – 108,245 – – 140,645 Thailand 564,083 – 9,357,804 1,000,000 – 7,695,911 18,617,798 The former Yugoslav – – – – – 10,372 10,372 Republic of Macedonia Timor-Leste 100,000 – – 31,500 – – 131,500 Togo 26,000 – – – – – 26,000 Tunisia 38,323 – – – – – 38,323 Turkey 172,848 841,100 – – 989,487 – 2,003,435 Turkmenistan 62,500 – – – – – 62,500 Uganda 469,000 – – – – 72,009 541,009 Ukraine – – 825 – – 390,330 391,155 United Arab 100,000 – 19,565 3,015,183 – 5,449,100 8,583,848 Emirates United 60,355,030 21,415,136 – 451,803,365 65,219,449 – 598,792,980 Kingdom United Republic of 22,000 – 312 – – 75,000 97,312 Tanzania United States 132,000,000 17,421,341 – 735,731,601 293,167,422 – 1,178,320,364 Uruguay 72,450 – 1,147,183 – – 1,956,169 3,175,803 Uzbekistan 310,000 – – – – – 310,000 Venezuela (Bolivarian – – – – – 1,939,788 1,939,788 Republic of) Viet Nam 34,254 – 3,262 – – 6,810 44,326 Yemen – – – – – 13,200 13,200 Zambia 257,520 – – – – – 257,520 Zimbabwe – – – – – 33,800 33,800 Other 23,112 224,629 529,343 – – 850,114 1,627,198 Revenue 158,157 12,675,756 – (180,922,734) 3,428,459 (1,203,576) (165,863,938) adjustments Total 545,989,290 499,307,753 30,135,179 2,193,924,018 648,765,827 164,924,893 4,083,046,961

2. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES (Public sector: government)

Other resources Asian Development Bank (ADB) 294,811 European Commission/ECHO 283,384,058 OPEC Fund 343,438 UNITAID 1,144,766 Revenue adjustments (2,187,586) Total 282,979,487

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3. NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (Private sector: other contributions)

Regular resources Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japan 814,996 Sub total 814,996 Other resources Alliance Côte d’Ivoire 548,280 FOSAP 1,526,195 GAVI Alliance 61,385,431 Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition 30,602 Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria 30,156,298 Micronutrient Initiative 18,611,892 Partners in Health 30,000 Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japan 814,995.93 The Alexander Bodini Foundation 60,000 Other 90,758 Revenue adjustments (305,433) Total 113,764,013

4. INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS (Public sector: inter-organizational arrangements)

Regular resources Revenue adjustments 5,851 Subtotal 5,851 Other resources Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 1,235,901 Global Partnership for Education 57,881,997 International Labour Organization (ILO) 24,000 International Organization for Migration 1,355,188 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 12,230,892 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 530,199 United Nations Development Group joint programmes 41,272,027 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 107,298,515 United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Woment (UN Women) 1,442,821 United Nations Human Settlements Programme – UN Habitat 50,925 United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) 49,220 United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) 12,042,016 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) 125,940,996 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 55,486,892 United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS) 697,301 World Bank 667,660 World Food Programme (WFP) 830,077 World Health Organization (WHO) 18,047,182 Revenue adjustments (4,721,233) Total 432,362,575

5. OTHER REVENUE* Total 97,404,434

GRAND TOTAL 5,009,557,471

* Other revenue includes income from interest, procurement and other sources. Note: Numbers may not add up because of rounding.

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July 2016