UNICEF Australia ANNUAL REPORT 2014 CONTENTS

About UNICEF 01 Chief Executive and President reports 02 Our Work in Australia 03 Child Rights Convention 08 There in an Emergency 10 Child Health and Survival 14 Child Protection and Social Inclusion 19 Our Education 22 Our People 24 Our Supporters 28 Financial Overview 31 Summarised Financial Reports 32

Front cover: © UNICEF/ETHA_2014_00099/Ose Hama, 8, attends class in Afar region of Ethiopia in April 2014.

Inside back cover: © UNICEF/BANA2014-01619/Mawa Students play during their school break in Rangamati, Bangladesh, in August 2014.

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UNICEF ABOUT UNICEF

UNICEF is the United Nations Children’s Fund. It works in 190 countries and territories with a focus on the lives of the most disadvantaged and excluded children.

In 2014, UNICEF celebrated the 25th anniversary of However, while the progress is remarkable, the the United Nation’s commitment to child rights and world needs new ideas and approaches to ensure the global achievements for children over this time. the Convention becomes a reality for every child, everywhere. Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, (CRC) every girl and boy has the right to survive It is UNICEF Australia’s mission to advance the and be healthy. Today, far fewer children die rights of all children, to raise resources for the before their fifth birthday than 25 years ago. organisation’s work and increase awareness of what UNICEF does. The Convention guarantees every child’s right to an education. Today, more children go to school In Australia, UNICEF works with government and than when the Convention was adopted. advocate partners to defend children’s rights and support international development programs. A child’s right to an adequate standard of living was also affirmed in the Convention. The UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary proportion of people living in extreme poverty has contributions of individuals, businesses, fallen and billions more have access to improved foundations and governments. drinking water sources and sanitation facilities.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND PRESIDENT REPORTS

UNPRECEDENTED YEAR OF NEED FOR CHILDREN

For children impacted by conflict in the Middle East – in Syria, Iraq and Gaza – and the African nations of South Sudan, Nigeria, and the Central African Republic, 2014 was a tragedy. Ebola too has claimed and changed the lives of children in West Africa and created an enormous challenge for affected nations and the global effort to restore good health. should acknowledge that hundreds of children were To each and every one of these emergencies UNICEF released from formal detention into the community, this responded, despite the unprecedented call on resources group continues to advocate for an end to the current created. UNICEF Australia supported our colleagues mandatory and indefinite detention of children and in the field by responding to the extraordinary funding families on and off-shore. needs, while further building the foundations for growth which will see significant increases in pledge donors, The unheralded and disproportionate cuts to Australia’s corporate partnerships and major donors. Foreign Aid programs in 2014 have had, and will continue to have, major adverse repercussions. The positive Our Young Ambassador program reached a new level momentum achieved over the past decades in reducing with publication of the collated views of more than 1,500 child mortality and supporting the welfare and eduction of of Australia’s children and young people. On the 25th millions of children is at risk of slowing. Consequently it anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child makes the work of UNICEF through National Committees, we considered there was nothing more important than to with our direct engagement with public and corporate give Australia’s youth an opportunity to be heard. partnerships, more critical than ever. During the year UNICEF Australia was instrumental in The extraordinary collective efforts of the UNICEF bringing together heads of Australia’s child rights and Australia team, supported by our dedicated Board of humanitarian organisations to strengthen and unify the Directors, continues to inspire me and the Executive sector’s response to Children in Immigration Detention. Management, as we strive to realise the rights of every This is an issue of extreme concern, and although we child, everywhere, especially the most disadvantaged.

© UNICEF Australia/Adam Liaw | UNICEF Australia Chief Executive Norman Gillespie enjoys a play session with children at an early Dr Norman Gillespie childhood care and development centre in Thet Ke Kan village, in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. UNICEF Australia Chief Executive

2 | Annual Report 2014 CHILDREN’S CONVENTION A REMINDER TO DRIVE SUCCESS

A baby born in 2014 has a dramatically improved OUR chance of living to see its fifth birthday and, overall, children born in 2014 will be more likely to survive and thrive than those of past decades. WORK IN With that positive outlook, UNICEF Australia moved into 2014 with ambitious plans to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF Australia’s AUSTRALIA Young Ambassadors asked Australian children and young people what was important to them and fed more than 1,500 responses to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and National Children’s Commissioner Megan Mitchell. The world made a promise to children Our Young Ambassadors are one example of the when it adopted the Convention on the people who volunteer their time, energy and expertise to UNICEF Australia. Our National Ambassadors; Rights of the Child: an internationally the workplace ambassadors at Qantas, Starwood understood commitment for the human rights and IKEA; our Change for Good volunteers at the of all children. Qantas Jet Base; and the many skilled interns who supplement our day-to-day operations are vital to us For the past 25 years, the Convention on the meeting our aims and deserve our great thanks. Rights of the Child has driven extraordinary Both I and my fellow Board directors consider it a outcomes for children, the majority of them privilege to work with a dedicated senior management focussed on health and survival, protection team. They, in turn, are supported by equally dedicated and education and equality. staff members that understand the importance of giving children the best possible start in life. UNICEF Australia believes Australia’s children are well protected under the Convention, On behalf of the Board I wish to thank Chief Executive but holds concerns for Indigenous children, Officer Norman Gillespie and his staff for their commitment to UNICEF. children in detention – both immigration detention and juvenile detention – and for Thanks also goes to my fellow Board members who children who are living in out-of-home care, so generously volunteer their time and expertise to ensure UNICEF Australia meets its objectives. My or where provisions for care at home or with peers help ensure Australia is playing its proper role in their family fail to protect them. helping the world’s most disadvantaged children. And finally, thanks goes to the many Australians and Australian businesses who give life to the work we do to uphold children’s rights around the world. With the same optimism that we started 2014, these ARTICLE 13 individuals, families and workforces have driven our Children have the right to be shown, success, and it’s their continuing support we will need over the ensuing years. share and shape ideas and information, as long as it causes no harm.

John Stewart UNICEF Australia President

UNICEF Australia | 3 THINGS THAT MATTER

UNICEF Australia has been active in putting children at the forefront of its advocacy for children globally, in our region and here at home. In marking the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Australia asked Aussie children and young people about the world they lived in, what was important to them, what made them feel safe, what they worried about, who they worried about and whether they felt included in decisions affecting them.

Their answers made up the Things That Matter report, shared by UNICEF Australia with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, in Geneva, and government leaders protecting the rights of children in Australia.

Download the Things That Matter report at www.unicef.org.au/thingsthatmatter

CRC@25 In every region of the world, the CRC has inspired changes in laws to better protect children, altered the way international organisations see their work for children and transformed the way children are able to take an active role and participate in their communities and societies.

To celebrate 25 years of a global Convention to protect the rights of every child, actor and UNICEF Australia National Ambassador Callan McAuliffe travelled to youth music festival Splendour in the Grass and asked festival-goers, along with other Aussie kids and young people, to join with UNICEF and make a video celebrating the rights of Australia’s children and young people.

You can view the video at www.unicef.org.au/everychild

Pele, 15, learned about the rights she 4 | Annual Report 2014 can enjoy as a Torres Strait Islander. INDIGENOUS RIGHTS OUR WORK IN AUSTRALIA

Young Indigenous teenagers were brought together by community artists Desert Pea Media and UNICEF Australia to produce a uniquely Australian interpretation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Taking a complex legal document, the teens reimagined the wording and brought power, passion and rhythm to a creative and cultural demonstration of their rights for themselves and their peers. A song and video produced during a week of creative workshops, filming and production featured in educational tools for primary and secondary teachers and community youth workers.

The project was made possible by funding from Australia Post and can be viewed at www.unicef.org.au/undrip

MEET PELE

For Pele, 15, a trip to Sydney from her Torres Strait home is not an everyday occurrence, though her natural talent for singing has brought her to the big smoke before. In January of 2014, Pele joined Indigenous young people from across the country to learn more about her rights and record a hip hop song about them. “I didn’t really know anything about rights before we started talking about that,” Pele said. Having learned about them, she and her peers set about writing the lyrics and recording the song in Sydney’s acclaimed 301 Studios. “It was mad to record in a studio, that was the best experience,” she told ABC Radio National’s Awaye program.

UNICEF Australia | 5 KIDS OUT OF YOUNG DETENTION AMBASSADORS

Throughout 2014, UNICEF Australia voiced its concerns for the harm Australia’s ©MEET Behind The News, JOSH ABC3 Television immigration policies were doing, particularly UNICEF Australia Young where they related to the mandatory and Ambassador Josh Goddard, indefinite detention of children. 15, of South Australia is one of the 2014 program’s youngest inductees and The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been a regular face for states children should only be detained as a last resort. UNICEF on ABC3 Television’s However, Australia – a signatory to the convention – current affairs program detains asylum-seeking children and their families while for children, Behind the determining their refugee status, and as a deterrent to News. “Growing up in South Africa I saw a lot and sea voyages that have, in the past, claimed lives. experienced a lot. When I was driving to school in the morning I would drive past other kids on the side of UNICEF Australia led sector co-ordination to advocate the road. It was not their fault but due to their family for the removal of children from immigration detention circumstances they had to give up an education and and introduce pathways to regional co-operation to put beg for money just to stay alive. I believe it’s my the needs of asylum-seeking children at the forefront of obligation and duty to give back to these kids,” Josh political and policy decisions. said. “As long as I change one life, it will prove this UNICEF Australia’s advocacy team supported measures whole experience worthwhile.” to review immigration policy and build a system to protect refugee children who found themselves in Australia’s care. With leading children’s, international development, human rights and refugee organisations from Australia UNICEF Australia’s Young Ambassadors represent and and across the Asia-Pacific, UNICEF Australia called for advocate for Australia’s children and young people. the Government to invest in humane and affordable They are trained in youth engagement and participation alternatives to detention for refugee children. to understand their rights and how they can encourage their peers to exercise their rights and responsibilities. In 2014, UNICEF Australia’s Young Ambassadors “No child should be detained. spoke to more than 1,500 children and young people This is an obligation our to develop the Things That Matter report highlighting the issues concerning Australia’s children. Young Government committed to Ambassadors appointed in 2014: meet when it signed the Hiba Abd El Hamed, Victoria Jeffrey Effendi, WA Ho Yin William Chan, NSW Jay Gajera, Victoria United Nations Convention Sophie Nichols, NSW Josh Goddard, SA on the Rights of the Child.” Brianna Partington, SA Catherine Yen, ACT Kate Row, Queensland Rahila Haidary, WA UNICEF Australia Chief Executive Norman Gillespie

6 | Annual Report 2014 “I want you to imagine a CHILD RIGHTS world without play. What would it be like? Forget about ON SHOW all those soccer games at lunch time. No more skipping OUR WORK IN AUSTRALIA ropes, no more running races. ©MEET Stefan Postles, of ADELEChalk Studio No more play. What if it did Adele, 12, is a Year 6 pupil of Telopea Park School, in happen to you?” Canberra. With her school, Adele visited the Museum of Adele, Year 6, Telopea Park School, Australian Democracy, housed at the launch of Play Up, in Old Parliament House, at the Museum of Democracy, Canberra Canberra, and learned about children’s rights as part of a project on Australian civics and citizenship. Adele was so inspired by what she learned, she was motivated to educate others about Article 31, the right to play, and spoke at an official reception to launch the museum’s 2014 exhibition on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Even though sometimes our parents and teachers tell us to stop playing they should remember play develops important skills - things like co-operating and getting on with each other. Thinking creatively and using your imagination can be some of the best forms of play,” Adele said.

Children took over the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra, thanks to an inspired exhibition exploring children’s rights and turning the traditional idea of what goes on in a museum on its head. Play Up, with content and resources from UNICEF Australia, explored the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - particularly Article 31, a child’s right to play and rest - and placed children’s voices at the heart of the interactive museum experience.

ARTICLE 01 ARTICLE 10 ARTICLE 18 If you’re under 18, you are a A child should be where its Parents must share the child, and you have rights. family is – all together. responsibility of raising their children and be supported by society to do so. ARTICLE 02 ARTICLE 11 No matter the race, religion, No one can take a child illegally. ARTICLE 19 ability, family unit, or the things Laws must protect children from they think and say, a child has being hurt or mistreated. rights under the Convention. ARTICLE 12 Children can give an opinion and ARTICLE 03 expect it to be heard. ARTICLE 20 Everyone must work toward Respect for a child’s heritage what is best for a child. must be considered if they can’t ARTICLE 13 be cared for by their family. Children have the right to be shown, share and shape ideas ARTICLE 04 and information, as long as it Governments must help children ARTICLE 21 causes no harm. If adopted by another family, all realise their rights. interests of the child are the first ARTICLE 14 consideration. ARTICLE 05 Children can choose what to Families must help protect believe in, with guidance from children’s rights and be guided ARTICLE 22 their family about what’s right by Government to do so. If a refugee, a child should be and wrong. protected by its host country. ARTICLE 06 Children should enjoy good ARTICLE 15 ARTICLE 23 health. Children can join groups and If a child lives with disability, make friends of their choosing. they need care and support to live a full life. ARTICLE 07 A name and place to call home is ARTICLE 16 every child’s right. Children have a right to privacy. ARTICLE 24 Good health, clean water and nutritious food are a child’s right. ARTICLE 08 ARTICLE 17 A child must have an identity The mass media has a and an official record of it. responsibility to provide ARTICLE 25 information children understand Living arrangements for children and protect them from in State care must be regularly ARTICLE 09 information they don’t. reviewed. A child must have an identity and an official record of it.

8 | Annual Report 2014 © UNICEF/NYHQ2014-3390/Nesbitt ARTICLE 26 ARTICLE 32 ARTICLE 38 Governments must help children Children must be safe from work Children should be protected who go without. that harms them or threatens from war. Those 15 years and their education. younger must not serve in ARTICLE 27 armed forces. All children must have their basic needs met, no matter how ARTICLE 33 ARTICLE 39 disadvantaged or marginalised. Children must be made safe Children should be protected from dangerous drugs. from war. Those 15 years and younger must not serve in ARTICLE 28 armed forces. All children have the right to a ARTICLE 34 free and fair education. Children should be safe from sexual abuse. ARTICLE 40 Children who break the law must be given fair treatment and jailed ARTICLE 29 only as a last resort for the most Education should develop a ARTICLE 35 serious of offences. child to participate fully in their Children should be safe from community. being abducted or sold. ARTICLE 41 If a country’s laws better protect a child’s rights, it should take ARTICLE 30 ARTICLE 36 precedence to the Convention. It’s a child’s right to speak their Children should be safe from language and practice their own exploitation. culture. ARTICLE 42 Children must know and have ARTICLE 31 ARTICLE 37 access to their rights. Children have the right to play Children must be safe from and rest. being cruelly punished. ARTICLE 43-45 These articles set out how society works to protect children’s rights.

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Through war and disaster, children are the most vulnerable to the breakdown of their communities and most at risk of rights violations.

Where children have the right to be safe, healthy Disaster too has a devastating impact on children. and living with their families, war puts them in The grip of Ebola on West Africa, in particular danger of being displaced, of confronting extreme Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, closed schools, violence and of being forced into situations where ended routine and preventative health care for violence against them continues well after they’re infants and young children and left many without clear of the immediate danger that threatened the care and love of a parent. their life. 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the In Syria, girls are marrying early to secure family United Nations Convention on the Rights of the safety. In Central African Republic and South Child and the irony was not lost on UNICEF that it Sudan, children are being recruited into armed experienced a heightened demand in responding forces. In Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria, children have to the humanitarian needs of children. repeatedly been the target when schools and religious minorities are targeted.

ARTICLE 38 Children should be protected from war. Those 15 years and younger must not serve in armed forces.

UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

UNICEF Australia | 11 EBOLA SYRIA

Total affected population: 18.7 million* Total affected population: 10.8 million Total affected children: 9.8 million* Total affected children: 5.08 million including 2.9 million children under 5 37+16+47+x 47+53+x MEET SANFA MEET HUSSEIN © UNICEF/NYHQ2014-3390/Nesbitt © UNICEF/NYHQ2014-0236/Rashidi Sanfa, 14, was at school in Sierra Hussein, 3, sleeps under Leone when he showed signs blankets he and his family were of having Ebola. He was taken given after being evacuated away for treatment and news to a shelter in the Syrian city of soon told of Sanfa’s death. A Homs following a 600-day siege. funeral was organised, mourners Movements were restricted and cooked and shared a meal and food and other supplies could food was set aside to feed not get through to the city’s Sanfa’s spirit on its journey to population. Hussein’s father the next life. But Sanfa hadn’t died. He survived the Ebola and elder brother were cleared to leave the shelter, but the virus and with UNICEF’s help, Sanfa was reunited with family, with nowhere else to go decided to stay. UNICEF his family and welcomed back by his village. When he provided warm clothing and blankets to families seeking returned home, Sanfa shared his story of survival. “When shelter through the bitterly cold winter months, and play you feel the first symptoms, go to the hospital.” things for children bored and with little to do.

Amid world strife and a year of reporting on both the Four years of unrelenting conflict in Syria have had a atrocities and attacks on children, a new threat emerged. devastating impact on millions of children. The Ebola outbreak reared its ugly head in communities ill- Violence, grave child rights violations, massive population equipped to cope with the contagion. Children, 9.8 million of displacement and damage to infrastructure and essential them, were estimated by UNICEF to be living in the worst- services has left 10.8 million people in need of essential affected countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Here humanitarian support. Of these, 5 million are children. disease transmission was widespread and intense. An estimated 3 million children are displaced, one million UNICEF’s response for children was swift. With its children are out of school, and another million are at risk of partners, UNICEF-trained volunteers took to the streets on dropping out due to insecurity. foot, on motorbike and from the back of lorries to share factual information about how individuals, families and the A lack of access to clean water, hygiene and sanitation wider community could manage their health and hygiene coupled with the deteriorating food security situation to stop the spread of Ebola. is raising serious concerns about the nutritional status of children, while the collapsing health care and water UNICEF’s goals throughout the emergency were to systems are exposing children to infectious diseases. prepare communities and neighbouring countries for outbreaks and improve primary health care and other UNICEF’s work in Syria and the neighbouring refugee social systems to curb or stop the rate of Ebola infection. communities continues despite a massive pull on resources. It focuses on primary health care, the prevention At the same time, UNICEF worked with governments of disease and the provision of safe, clean water for and communities to support children orphaned by Ebola drinking and hygiene purposes. UNICEF is supporting deaths, reopen Ebola-safe schools and maintain health children who have been exposed to ongoing and extreme services to ensure children and expectant mothers were violence and child rights abuses and is investing in returning safe to resume routine and preventative health care, like children to school after many months, even years, without childhood immunisations and pre-natal support. access to education. In 2014, Australians donated $1,270,573 to support In 2014, Australians donated $580,962 to support UNICEF’s UNICEF’s Ebola emergency work and Ebola preparedness emergency response in Syria and neighbouring countries. in countries neighbouring Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Make your donation at www.unicef.org.au/syria Make your donation at www.unicef.org.au/ebola * In Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone

12 | Annual Report 2014 SOUTH SUDAN

Total affected population: 6.4 million Total affected children: 3.4 million 53+47x MEET NYANWOT Nyanwot, 2, has already lived through more than most.

Her home in South Sudan was destroyed by war and, IN AN EMERGENCY with her mother, she escaped violence to a makeshift camp in bushland. With little food, Nyanwot became sick and malnourished. She was hospitalised and with UNICEF-supplied nutritional supplements made a rapid improvement. Without therapeutic milk every two hours for her malnutrition, as well as antibiotics to treat her diarrhoea and vomiting, Nyanwot could have been a casualty of the war and food insecurity that has destabilised one of our newest nations and created an emergency risking the lives of more than 50,000 children.

In late 2014, the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, faced a catastrophic food crisis. Escalating violence forced more than 1.9 million people to flee their homes for fear of the fighting and with farming land left behind or occupied by armed forces, food crops were not sown for the coming season. Where crops were planted, many were left unattended to wither and die, resulting in a serious food crisis affecting millions. UNICEF data pointed to children being the most at risk, with 50,000 children expected to die before the year’s end through severe and acute malnutrition. Hunger on such a grand scale most threatened children under the age of five. UNICEF is working in South Sudan for the complex and immediate needs of children. Through UNICEF, children have been vaccinated, provided with safe water and safe sanitation. They have been re-enrolled in schools, or temporary learning spaces. Critical child protection services are reaching children and UNICEF is supporting the South Sudanese Government’s efforts to end the recruitment of children to armed forces. In 2014, Australians donated $838,670 to support UNICEF’s response to the children’s food emergency and ongoing conflict in South Sudan. Make your donation at www.unicef.org.au/southsudan

Healthy children grow into healthy adults, with opportunities to work, contribute to their communities and, in turn, raise healthy families. Good health is a child’s right and UNICEF works, at scale, across the world, to take simple interventions and tested solutions to improve child health and child survival rates. Clean water to drink and bathe in, improved sanitation, routine childhood immunisation and good, nutritious food are all simple solutions to realising a child’s right to good health. Since UNICEF’s founding, our expert teams across more than 190 countries have built an extensive global health presence and work daily to bring practical solutions to the women and children at greatest risk.

ARTICLE 23 Good health, clean water and nutritious food are a child’s right.

14 | Annual Report 2014 © UNICEF/2011/Modola IMMUNISATION TO PREVENT

CHILDHOOD DISEASE CHILD HEALTH

Today, 4,000 children will die of vaccine-preventable diseases One in five children do not have access to routine childhood immunisation 20+80x

Immunisation saves children’s lives. Preventative and routine immunisation have been credited MEET DEBORAH with dramatically reducing the number of Three days might seem like an outrageous children who die each year from diseases that amount of time to travel to a health centre, could have been prevented easily and cheaply. but for many children living in rural and remote UNICEF works to bring cost-effective communities around the world, it’s a reality. preventative healthcare to every child and For Deborah, 3, it wasn’t an 88 kilometre river manages a huge network of routes along which journey through the jungles of the Democratic vaccines pass before reaching the children who Republic of Congo that almost killed her; it need them. was a fever from a bout of measles, a disease she could have been shielded from. A routine Through the support of partner agencies, injection protects a child for life, but where government and the donations of UNICEF health care is far away or difficult to access or supporters, one third of the world’s children have poverty prevents families seeking help, children been vaccinated against polio, measles, neo-natal die from measles. Deborah is now immunised, tetanus and other common childhood illnesses – thanks to the work of UNICEF and its global many of them deadly to the weakest and most at partners. risk children.

In 2014, Australians donated $697,613 to keep this important life-saving work going in a range of UNICEF Australia supported programs.

UNICEF Australia | 15 CAMBODIA’S PARTNERSHIP YOUNG, HEALTHY A BOOST FOR GENERATION LAOS’ CHILDREN

More than 68,000 children under two years Poor nutrition contributes to more than screened for malnutrition by October, 2014 a third of child deaths globally Almost 1,200 children treated for malnutrition in a UNICEF-supported hospital, and a further ©UNICEFMEET Laos KIENG 1,400 treated as outpatients Kieng’s bright smile paints a positive picture for her children’s MEET SOPHY future. “My biggest wish for my ©UNICEF Cambodia/2014/LaillouArnaud children is that they are healthy and go to school,” the mother Sophy, 10-months, lives of three said. “I enjoy seeing in a makeshift house with my children play and learn new his brothers, mother and things.” Kieng is among Lao grandmother in a settlement mothers who have received of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom SuperKid nutritional supplements to support the diets of Penh. During a UNICEF- her youngest children, Nangnoi, 2, and Boi, 3. She’s also supported nutrition screening, received advice on how to prepare nutritious meals with Sophy was found to be locally available foods that can be mixed easily with the malnourished. His mother SuperKid supplements. works collecting rubbish for between $3 and $5 a day and her meagre earnings are not enough to properly feed the family. With UNICEF’s help, Sophy was treated for malnutrition and his mother, A poor diet can stunt a child and lead to permanent brain Sam, shown how to prepare nutritional supplements for and cognitive incapacity. It can trap children in a lifetime her son. “After a few days, he was eager to eat and now cycle of illness, poverty and inequity. he looks healthier and his skin is brighter.” she said. With mining interests in Laos, MMG Limited noted high rates of malnutrition among children in the community and worked with UNICEF, the Laos Ministry of Health and Cambodia has successfully lowered infant mortality Population Services International to give Laos’ children the rates but is still one of the world’s poorest performing nutrition needed for healthy bodies and minds. countries when it comes to improving rates of child malnutrition. Malnutrition is attributable to more than High levels of under nutrition remain one of the biggest 6,400 child deaths in Cambodia annually. challenges facing Laos. UNICEF has been working to improve children’s nutrition Enter the 1000 Day Project. The partnership brings together throughout Cambodia, focusing on interventions government officials, health professionals, civil society like fortifying common foods and adding nutritional organisations, volunteers and pharmacists to distribute supplements to the diets of infants. These interventions, sachets of SuperKid supplements for children in remote and along with public health messages, education programs disadvantaged regions. Where supplements are distributed, targeted at the mothers of young children and improved free clinics promote good feeding and hygiene practices for health screening are not only saving children’s lives but mothers of children up to 59 months – the first 1000 days supporting a strong, healthy generation for the future. of life. In 2014, UNICEF Australia contributed $200,000 In 2014, UNICEF Australia received $536,171 to improve child nutrition in Cambodia. through a multi-sector partnership with mining firm MMG to distribute nutritional supplements in Laos and offer diet and nutrition advice to mothers of young children.

16 | Annual Report 2014 MAKING DRINKING WATER SAFE

768 million people drink daily from unsafe water sources 36 per cent of the world’s population lack improved CHILD HEALTH sanitation facilities 36+64x MEET AMI Ami, 12, lives in the African nation of Sierra Leone. Every day she collects from a local pond for her family. The water is muddy and tastes awful. With every sip she could be drinking millions of viruses and bacteria – any of which could lead to a fatal illness. Ami knows this water can make her sick but it’s the only source of water near to her home. She has no choice but to drink, cook and wash using this water and the effort to collect it means she has no time for school and to learn for a better, brighter future.

Water is something most of us take for granted. If we’re thirsty we turn a tap or open a bottle. We wash and flush and bathe and clean without thinking anything of it. But for millions of children around the world, water causes illness, exhaustion – even death. Many have no choice but to drink dirty water – and tragically, children die from easily preventable waterborne diseases. UNICEF’s water, sanitation and hygiene programs offer simple solutions on a large scale to reach children with improved drinking water and sanitation facilities, improve their health and lower the risk of preventable disease. In emergencies, UNICEF provides urgent relief to communities and nations threatened by disrupted and damaged water supplies. In 2014, Australians donated $341,693 to keep this important life-saving work going in a range of UNICEF Australia supported programs.

In 1990, Ethiopia’s under-5 mortality rate was one of the highest in the world at 204 deaths for every 1,000 live births. By 2012, it had fallen to 68 deaths for every 1,000 live births. MEET KALID Mobile health and nutrition team leader, Kalid Ibrahim Abdirkadir, 22, has been trained to conduct malnutrition screenings. These screenings, like the ones he does in Ethiopia’s Somali region, can be the difference between life and death for so many children. Kalid travels harsh terrain to reach the children he meets in his clinics and has been trained to use simple tools to diagnose malnutrition and advise mothers on the care and health of their children. He also gives children routine vaccinations to help prevent common childhood illnesses that, far from medical help, can be a life sentence for these children.

Strong health systems are important to the health and development of strong children, but when medical care is far away and only accessible by donkey or camel, even the strongest of health systems are of little use. In Ethiopia, a UNICEF project supported by the Australian Government and Australian community is making sure health care is accessible to the most remote of families. Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams manage and treat common illnesses and combat malnutrition, focusing on the care of mothers and children as a priority. More complicated or critical cases are referred to a health facility, with early diagnosis saving lives. In distant parts of Ethiopia, UNICEF is working with local health officers and committed health workers to reach mothers and children with lifesaving and preventative health care. In 2014, UNICEF Australia contributed $296,866 to reach mothers and children living in Ethiopia’s most remote and hardest to reach regions.

18 | Annual Report 2014 ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2014/Tsegaye CHILD PROTECTION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

In a world with heightened conflict and more frequent disasters, where mobility BUILDING A CHILD and migration are on the increase and JUSTICE SYSTEM where technology can strip away privacy Poverty, family breakdown, migration, substance abuse if used incorrectly or inappropriately, and a lack of employment have exposed Lao youth to children are at risk. an increased risk of coming into contact with the law. UNICEF works to protect children from Laos does not have a dedicated child justice system and as such fails to account for the needs of children. exploitation, abuse and violence, especially children made vulnerable because of their Punishment and a deprivation of liberty are often gender, race or socio-economic status. the response for children, with limited solutions to UNICEF knows Indigenous children, children promote social reintegration. Likewise, children who living with a disability and children without are victims or witnesses are not always protected and the care and protection of their family are measures to promote their physical and psychological recovery are not applied. at greater risk. Exploitation, abuse and violence against UNICEF Laos is working with the Laos national government to build a child sensitive justice system children includes sexual abuse, armed through policy development, training of key justice violence, trafficking, child labour, gender- staff and offering social and legal assistance to based violence, bullying, cyber-bullying, children in contact with the law. gang violence, female genital mutilation or cutting, child marriage and physically In 2014, UNICEF Australia contributed or emotionally violent child discipline. $196,610 to juvenile justice programs in Laos. UNICEF works to end violence against children, support children at risk and assist children who have been subjected to violence to reconnect with their families, community and rebuild their future.

ARTICLE 36 Children should be safe from exploitation

UNICEF Australia | 19 REGISTERING BIRTHS TO DELIVER RIGHTS

45 per cent of the world’s children, five and under, do not possess a birth certificate 45+55x Asia is home to about half of the world’s unrecorded births

Where the births of children go unrecorded, it’s harder for them to gain access to health care, education and the other protections that are their right.

One of Australian’s nearest neighbours, Indonesia, has one of the lowest rates of birth registration in the world. Without it children can miss out on social services, health care and education and be exposed to child labour, early marriage, conscription or the risk of being treated as an adult by justice systems.

A UNICEF Australia-funded program is targeting Indonesia’s poorest and most vulnerable families to register their children at birth. By linking hospitals and maternity clinics to online registration systems, merging the process for registering marriages and births, and introducing welfare incentives to families, UNICEF is seeing a rise in the number of births registered and realising children’s legal rights.

In 2014, UNICEF Australia contributed $128,390 to support the registration of children’s births in Indonesia.

20 | Annual Report 2014 ©UNICEF Cambodia/2014/Rin Ream KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER CHILD PROTECTION

Only about 23 per cent of children in orphanages in Cambodia are actual orphans (2009) Number of NGO-run orphanages in Cambodia: 23+77x 225 (compared to 154 in 2005)

Institutionalised care has become an alternative and accessible solution for Cambodian families MEET SREYNICH hoping for a better life for their children. Rather Sreynich, 11, wants to be a doctor when she than an option of last resort, in Cambodia grows up. She’ll have to study hard. Her mother, institutions have become a desirable – though Kheum, 33, wants the very best for her too, and ill-informed – choice for families living in poverty. when ill health forced her to stop the work she A lack of support and protection for children in was doing in a Cambodian garment factory she these institutions has proved a greater danger worried how she could afford her daughter’s than many families would wish for. This, coupled schooling. A single mum, Kheum considered with a volunteer tourist market unwittingly placing her daughter in institutionalised care. offering temporary help, has created a market for However, with the support of a UNICEF these institutions to thrive. Australia-funded program, Kheum was able to provide her daughter with books to attend UNICEF has been working with the Cambodian school, along with the nutritious food and access Government and other organisations to stop the to clean water she’ll need to stay strong and reliance on institutionalised care among families healthy to learn. Sreynich, loves maths and is and discourage volunteer tourists from lending one of the top three students in her class. financial and physical support to institutions.

UNICEF’s focus has been to educate and train In 2014, UNICEF Australia contributed communities on the importance of keeping $157,055 to help keep Cambodian families together and support the appropriate care, families together. welfare and community development to sustain vulnerable families.

In addition, UNICEF works to support reintegration and deinstitutionalisation of children into family and community-based care.

UNICEF Australia | 21 OUR EDUCATION

In 2014, war and conflict set back global progress on children’s access to education. Of the 58 million primary-aged children who are not in school, half are from countries facing war and conflict. Girls face significant barriers to learning as do children whose families live in poverty, are from rural or hard to reach areas or who are of an ethnic or linguistic minority. Children with disabilities, or children who have to work to help their families make ends meet are also blocked from the basic skills that could lift them from a lifetime of poverty and hardship. Yet, the greatest challenges are faced by children with multiple disadvantages: the girls from poor rural areas, ethnic minority children with disabilities and refugee children who have left behind classrooms to escape danger and violence. These are the children least likely to realise their right to an education. Across the globe, UNICEF is committed to free access to education for every child, every girl and boy.

ARTICLE 29 Education should develop a child to participate fully in their community

22 | Annual Report 2014 IT TAKES MORE THAN A CLASSROOM CHILD PROTECTION

One extra year at primary 36 per cent of the world’s school can boost a girl’s population lack improved wages by 10 to 20 per cent. 10+10+80x sanitation facilities 36+64x MEET GEYAH MEET TAMBUDZAI* © UNICEF/ Kelley Lynch ©UNICEF 2014/ Richard Nyamanhindi

Geyah, 9, lives in a village on the island of Access to a toilet is Mindanao in the Philippines. When Geyah grows something we take up she wants to be a teacher just like her Grade for granted, but for Four teacher, Mr Flores. “I want to be a teacher young girls across rural because I want to help children how to read, Zimbabwe, the lack of write and count and to be good children. If there a school bathroom has are no teachers, there are no professionals.” the potential to end Geyah goes to a UNICEF-supported school their studies. where specialised teacher and student training ensures every child can be reached with an In Zimbabwe, girls like Tambudzai*, 12, have education. Geyah is a peer group leader in her a difficult choice to make when they start school and helps teach younger students. menstruating. Without proper bathrooms at school, Tambudzai and her peers have no privacy so choose to stay at home. With every lesson In 2014, Australians donated $19,609 they miss they fall behind in their studies. to purchase more than 500,000 UNICEF has built 270 toilets in schools across pencils and stock UNICEF-supported rural Zimbabwe. “Before the toilets were built schools globally. at our school there was no water for the toilets and it was so difficult to go with my periods,” Tambudzai said. “Sometimes I had to miss school.” With the new toilets in place, Tambudzai is attending all her classes and keeping up with her studies.

* Name changed to protect personal dignity In 2014, UNICEF Australia contributed $190,593 to water and sanitation programs in Zimbabwe’s schools.

UNICEF Australia | 23 OUR PEOPLE

In working and volunteering to bring to life the United Nations OUR PEOPLE Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Australia’s staff, Board, National Ambassadors, youth spokespersons and volunteers found ingenious ways to drive the UNICEF vision further afield in the Convention’s 25th year. Their personal and collective commitment underpins UNICEF’s work for children.

UNICEF Australia National Ambassador for Nutrition Adam Liaw at Myanmar’s Mingalazedi Pagoda, in Bagan during a field trip with UNICEF Australia and Qantas to learn the impact of Change for Good donations.

24 | Annual Report 2014 OUR PEOPLE

UNICEF Australia | 25 UNICEF PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT management system performance Australia’s UNICEF key and sets new achievement staff measures through members all staff for indicators performance by is evaluated whose performance to the Chief Executive, Chairman. Board Australia the UNICEF and the process requires bi-annual reviews formal The on individual staff. feedback gathering of stakeholder career development process also identifies individual The goals. career actions to achieve goals and development STAFF ENGAGEMENT its annual conducted Australia UNICEF In September, The per cent response rate. survey with a 100 staff engagement, career on staff survey sought feedback assessment, organisational performance development, benefits. leadership and employee were Survey results indicated 96 per cent of employees cent would and 85 per Australia UNICEF for proud to work Staff as a place to work. Australia recommend UNICEF to do their job empowered were members also said they a part in the overall their role played and understood how Australia. goals of UNICEF developed Australia UNICEF the survey, Following in the ongoing improvement groups to drive working diversity; flexible workplace areas of career development; and, process. health and safety; arrangements; work 20 per cent, up slightly from was in 2014 turnover Staff longest servingThe year. per cent in the previous 18 of service member has more than eight years and staff tenure of more than members have 40 per cent of staff three years. positions in 2014. 18 for recruited Australia UNICEF own the organisation’s source was top recruitment The recruited per cent of roles were 90 network and referrals. costs down. recruitment directly and kept takes seriously its commitment to Equal Australia UNICEF of staff array a diverse attracting Opportunity, Employment ideas and new members with great strengths, expertise build on its achievements. Australia to help UNICEF priorities policy ensures employment Australia’s UNICEF kind of bias, including race, gender, are free from any age, disability, mental state, preference, sexual nationality, responsibilities and religious or political family pregnancy, connection.

Morris Gleitzman Morris Tim Cahill UNICEF AUSTRALIA STAFF UNICEF team of 43 is made Sydney-based Australia’s UNICEF Of those, up of 34 fulltime and 9 part-time employees. and 52 per cent are aged 72 per cent are women of age. between 20 and 35 years Callan McAuliffe SolomonSteven Rush Geoffrey WigglesThe Fiona Stanley Prof UNICEF Australia’s National Ambassadors provided UNICEF Australia’s on equity attention focus to and profile their expertise all children. for Child Survival, Ambassador for Australia UNICEF the writing she did to recognised for was Moss, Tara policies and the offshore immigration Australia’s question children. detention of asylum-seeking actor and National Year, of the Australian Former filmed a television Rush Ambassador Geoffrey the South Sudan children’s commercial supporting emergency. of their Ambassadors give National Australia’s All UNICEF on UNICEF their work paid for None were time freely. behalf. Australia’s to: thanks goes Australia’s UNICEF UNICEF Australia National Ambassador Barnes Immunisation Jimmy for UNICEF Australia National Ambassador Bickmore Maternal Health Carrie for UNICEF Australia National Ambassador Liaw Adam Nutrition for UNICEF Australia National Ambassador Moss Tara Child Survivalfor Erica Packer and HG (aka Greig Pickhaver Roy Doyle) and John Done Ken UNICEF AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA UNICEF AMBASSADORS NATIONAL WORK, HEALTH SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND SAFETY INTERN PROGRAM UNICEF Australia is committed to the provision of a UNICEF Australia has a sought-after internship program safe and healthy workplace for its staff, volunteers and offering opportunities for industry skill development contractors. UNICEF Australia complies with current work, to students and recent graduates to work alongside health and safety regulations and no work cover claims professionals in their field. The communications team offers were submitted by staff in 2014. four media internships each year. The advocacy team offers internships driven by the scope of its campaigns and offers As part of UNICEF Australia’s ongoing commitment to the a diversity of skill development programs for working in wellbeing of its staff, employees were asked in the 2014 human rights practice, youth engagement and international staff survey about stress levels at work. The Work, Health development. Additional internships are offered in marketing. and Safety committee started work on staff wellbeing to ensure practices and policies promote optimum staff health and safety at work. In 2014, employees continued OFFICE VOLUNTEERS to access flexible working arrangements including flexible hours, work from home and a condensed working week. UNICEF Australia’s staff welcomed 11 volunteers to the office in 2014. These volunteers provided valuable assistance to the administration, supporter relations, CODE OF CONDUCT advocacy, communications and fundraising teams in roles

OUR PEOPLE ranging from general administrative work and customer UNICEF Australia’s code of conduct requires all service, to policy research and analysis. UNICEF Australia employees and board members to maintain the highest acknowledges the contribution of office volunteers who standards of integrity and conduct consistent with continue to generously donate their time and skills to UNICEF Australia’s core values. support UNICEF’s work for children. Those core values are: • Respect for the rights of all children and the CHANGE FOR GOOD VOLUNTEERS tenets of the United Nations Convention on the Volunteers are a key part of the Change for Good Rights of the Child. partnership with Qantas, counting foreign currency at • Respect and care for our supporters and beneficiaries. the Mascot offices of the program. • Respect for others. In 2014 UNICEF Australia said farewell to two long-serving • Collaboration first. and dedicated volunteers, David Paterson and Audrey • Being transparent and honest in all communication. Jenson. Together they dedicated 43 years of service to the • Making our vision a reality. Change for Good Program. UNICEF Australia thanks them for their contribution and commitment. UNICEF Australia is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and a signatory UNICEF Australia also farewelled retiring Change for to the ACFID Code of Conduct. ACFID is the peak Good manager Peter Nolan. Peter has been a member council for Australian not-for-profit aid and development of the UNICEF Australia family for the past 17 years. In that organisations. The ACFID Code of Conduct is a voluntary, time, Peter made a tremendous impact on the success self-regulatory sector code of good practice. UNICEF of the Change for Good program and made a positive and Australia is committed to conducting its work with significant impact on the lives of children. We thank Peter for transparency, accountability and integrity. his contribution and long standing commitment. The full ACFID Code of Conduct can be found at www.acfid.asn.au CORPORATE WORKPLACE UNICEF Australia is a signatory to the Australian Direct VOLUNTEERS Marketing Association and is compliant with its self- Workplace volunteers from UNICEF Australia’s corporate regulatory Code governing all aspects of direct and data partners, in particular, IKEA and Qantas, enthusiastically driven marketing. encourage others to understand UNICEF’s commitment to children, calling on colleagues and customers to join them. Workplace volunteer programs at IKEA and Qantas drive regular giving and a broader understanding of the direct impact corporate engagement has on the children UNICEF programs support.

26 | Annual Report 2014 UNICEF AUSTRALIA BOARD

John Stewart President (2014) Rohan Lund Chartered Accountant and Managing Chief Operating Officer, Foxtel Director of SEMA Holdings Elected April, 2011 Elected April, 2005 Attendance at Board meetings: 5/6 Attendance at Board meetings: 6/6

Lesley Grant Megan Quinn

Deputy President (2014) Managing Director, Q&CO Consulting OUR PEOPLE Chief Executive Officer, Qantas Loyalty and Specialty Fashion Group Elected May, 2006 Elected May, 2013 Attendance at Board meetings: 5/6 Attendance at Board meetings: 6/6

Michael Gill Nadika Garber Counsellor at Dragoman Managing Director, Hinkler Books Elected May, 1998 Pty Ltd Attendance at Board meetings: 1/1 Elected May, 2013 Resigned February 2014 Attendance at Board meetings: 6/6

Fiona Sinclair King Robin Davies Barrister-at-Law, Queens Square Associate Director, Development Policy Chambers, Sydney Centre, Crawford School of Public Elected November, 2002 Policy, Australian National University Attendance at Board meetings: 5/5 Elected: September, 2013 Resigned October 2014 Attendance at Board meetings: 6/6

Michael Batchelor Stephanie Copus-Campbell Chartered Accountant and Consultant Executive Director, Harold Mitchell to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Foundation and international advisor Elected October, 2005 to Harold Mitchell Attendance at Board meetings: 2/2 Elected September, 2013 Resigned April 2014 Attendance at Board meetings: 5/6

Deeta Colvin Paul Fisher Consultant to Consolidated Press Managing Director, Media, South Holdings and Director Colvin East Asia, North Asia, Pacific Communications Pty Ltd (SEANAP), Nielsen Elected May, 2009 Elected October, 2014 Attendance at Board meetings: 5/6 Attendance at Board meetings: 1/1

Christine Christian Investor and Independent Non-executive Director, Chief Executive Women Elected April, 2011 Attendance at Board meetings: 6/6

UNICEF Australia | 27 OUR SUPPORTERS

BUSINESS PARTNERS Commonwealth Bank Loose change becomes positive change with the All sectors of our community have a responsibility to Commonwealth Bank and UNICEF’s Coins for Kids uphold children’s rights and, increasingly, corporations are program. The Commonwealth Bank collects foreign forming innovative and creative partnerships to recognise change to support UNICEF’s health, protection and the interactions they have with children – directly and education programs for children worldwide. indirectly. The business sector understands children, and their Bankwest parents, are consumers of both products and services and Whether it be rupees, rand or rubles, Bankwest joined that business operations impact on communities working UNICEF Australia in 2014 and, like other business partners to raise healthy, happy and safe children. the Commonwealth Bank and Qantas, has inspired UNICEF Australia has enjoyed rich and deep partnerships customers to donate spare foreign currency to make a with established and new business partners in 2014, each difference for children around the world. offering diverse and powerful ways to deliver for children. 3P Learning

OUR SUPPORTERS MMG Limited Every two years 3P Learning hosts the World Education In 2012, MMG Limited and UNICEF partnered with Games, a free online quiz for pupils from across the the Laos Ministry of Health, Laos Women’s Union and globe to unite and answer maths, spelling and science Population Services International to launch the 1,000 Day questions in a multiplayer game environment. Project: a dedicated program to reduce stunting among Since 2010, 3P Learning and World Education Games have children in southern Laos. helped UNICEF reach thousands of children with learning Qantas resources and teaching aids. Passengers on Qantas flights have donated close to IKEA $30 million for UNICEF’s work for children and their IKEA opened its doors, literally, to UNICEF Australia in communities around the world by placing foreign and local 2014, hosting information bays promoting UNICEF’s global change inside in-flight Change for Good envelopes. work and offering customers a chance to experience A measure of the success of UNICEF Australia’s 24-year UNICEF’s child rights and country program work through partnership with Qantas is the enthusiasm of its most children’s storytelling, photo exhibitions and interactive visible staff members, its cabin crew. In 2014, six Qantas displays about UNICEF’s water, sanitation and hygiene cabin crew volunteers promoting the UNICEF and Qantas programs. Change for Good program travelled to Myanmar to see how Global Corporate Challenge international currency and spare change donated to Change for Good funds family support and educational programs for The Global Corporate Challenge improves the health of vulnerable children. registered participants, but since 2013, has also improved the health of children by partnering with UNICEF to support Starwood water, sanitation and hygiene programs. Starwood Hotels and Resorts customers have contributed Human Group to Checkout for Children since 1996. The program supports UNICEF programs in the Asia Pacific region and Human Group and mytraining.net support teacher training has helped build and improve school facilities, provide across 17 schools in Timor-Leste, reaching more than teacher training, equip classrooms with learning resources 6,000 children who did not previously have access to their and help children return to schools after emergencies. right to a basic education.

28 | Annual Report 2014 OUR SUPPORTERS UNICEF Australia | 29 UNICEF Global Parents have a commitment to UNICEF’s child child to UNICEF’s a commitment have Global Parents no in the right of every child, survival and believe work a good start in life. their circumstances, to have matter a verymake real impact on the likelihood Global Parents a life: child’s of survival of a during the first 1,000 days Global Parents and development. growth critical time for a for in UNICEF to set the foundation and trust know the understand survival Global Parents beyond life. child’s children around for many first 1,000 is a struggle days to ending that dedicated themselves and have the world a positive children to give and creating change struggle future. and powerful of passionate and generous Global network Australia’s deep into the places UNICEF is unafraid to reach Parents a choice. a chance, a life, a child go, to give www.unicef.org.au/globalparent GUARDIANS GLOBAL UNICEF grateful to the supporters and is deeply Australia UNICEF the world’s a legacy for supporters who left of families through most disadvantaged and marginalised children also would Australia UNICEF in their wills in 2014. gifts a to leaving the individuals who committed to thank like children. for work legacy to UNICEF’s the world’s a legacy for learn more about leaving To 884 233. on 1300 Australia phone UNICEF children, Twice The Doctor Foundation Foundation The Doctor Twice Healthcare Supports medical by is run Doctor Foundation The Twice The 2014, In May medical professionals. for professionals “virtual of a day was event signature the foundation’s called were medical professionals Australian volunteering”. lifesaving salary UNICEF’s to support on to donate a day’s the end of Toward Leone. health programs in Sierra crisis, and in the grip of an Ebola was Leone Sierra 2014, of giving for day organised an additional the foundation emergency Ebola appeal. UNICEF’s GLOBAL PARENTS

Pratt Foundation for a Polio-free India a Polio-free for Foundation Pratt polio the epicentre of the world’s India was In 1988, paralysed transmission. Of an estimated 350,000 children just under year, polio across the globe each or killed by due to one of the greatest Today, from India. half were implemented, India has not public health campaigns ever India faces However, a case of polio since 2011. suffered of childhood to maintain high levels an ongoing battle until the disease is eradicated immunity against the virus partnership with the Pratt Australia’s UNICEF globally. supports Indian communities most at risk. Foundation PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT support from a number received Australia UNICEF In 2014 and grant- foundations trusts, of major donors, charitable is sincerely grateful for Australia making bodies. UNICEF support and generosity of these individuals and the loyal disadvantaged most organisations in helping the world’s children. UNICEF Australia is grateful for the pro bono support the for is grateful Australia UNICEF Australia Cisco Systems Australia, Media Aegis by: offered Eden Corporate Pty Utz, DLA Piper, Limited, Clayton Tune, Decaux, Kish+Co illustrator Cara IKEA, JC Travel, SEMA Group, mX, Network 10, and Partners, Mitchell Network, Arts), Seven of School Mechanics (Sydney SMSA Limited, St GeorgeAirways Splendour in the Grass, Qantas Dragon Lounge. The and Bank PRO BONO SUPPORT PRO BONO Kiwanis partnership Australia’s year of UNICEF third and final The at the global eradication International, aimed with Kiwanis of deadly maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), saw to Madagascar named as the 35th country since 1999, Maternal and neonatal tetanus remains a eliminate MNT. partnership immunises The health threat in 24 countries. from tetanus bacteria mothers and protects newborns to encourage and midwives and trains birth attendants birthing practices. clean and safe H&M has been a global partner of UNICEF since 2004,H&M has been a global Children range to girls’ All for of its donating 25 per cent and sanitation and water prevention, education, HIV/AIDS Cambodia, China, India, protection in Bangladesh, child the annual release Madagascar and Uzbekistan. In 2014, Australia’s in launched Children collection All for of the stores. Melbourne and Sydney H&M CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN UNICEF Australia Champions for Children are small and The Gees together raised almost $10,000 for their Sydney medium-size businesses committed to making a positive Morning Herald Half-Marathon bid and were among 29 change in the lives of children. runners who joined UNICEF Australia in this physical and fundraising challenge. Platinum Champions for Children More than 50 also completed the Sun Herald City2Surf Platinum Champions for Children donate $1,000 a month. and together with UNICEF Australia community They are: Elk Accessories, Fire Corp, Essential Mall, fundraisers collected a total of $30,323 for UNICEF’s Interactive Freight Systems, Moraitis, RCR International global work for children. Pty Ltd, Universal Trading Strategies. Lame Game Marathon Gold Champions for Children In November, three guys sat themselves down in front Gold Champions for Children donate $500 a month. They of an array of game stations and turned the attention are: Bio Dental Care, Salt 66 (GE Beard Holdings), OBI of the world’s gamers to the lamest games ever made. Holdings, Think Forex (TF Global Markets (Aust) Pty Ltd). For 24 hours, the three played and live streamed their Silver Champions for Children attempts, thanks to Swinburne University in Melbourne, to conquer new heights and new game levels across titles Silver Champions for Children donate $250 a month. recommended to them as the worst gaming experiences They are: ABG Pages, Academia International (Australian known to players. Academy Of Vocational Education And Trades Pty Ltd), OUR SUPPORTERS Apprentices Plus, Australian All Star Cheerleading In 24 hours the Lame Game Marathon raised $8,092 Association, Australian College of Applied Psychology, through viewer donations for UNICEF, echoing the Lame Barstudio, Camalee Pty Ltd, Cleanway Environmental Gamer’s cry to “Play It Forward”. Services Pty Ltd, Commvault Systems Pty Ltd, DCS Internet, Enrich Property Group, Favco Pty Ltd, First Charity Adventures Agency Business Solutions, International Interior Images, UNICEF Australia’s supporters love to travel and when Itchy Foot Pty Ltd (babysittersnow.com.au), Jinky Art we put forward the idea they could travel to countries Retreat, Molonglo Group, Narellan Veterinary Hospital, UNICEF worked in and take on a charity challenge, aided Noja Power Switchgear, Ojas Group Pty Ltd, Toodyay by the generous donations of friends and family, there Hardware, Toshiba, Travel Health Fremantle, Web Profits, was a hugely positive response. Wellbeing Pharmacy, Westernex Supply Pty Ltd. In 2014, 50 UNICEF Australia supporters climbed Mount To include your business among UNICEF Australia’s Kilimanjaro on a trip developed and guided by adventure Champions for Children, phone UNICEF Australia on travel specialists Inspired Adventures. 1300 884 233. Funds raised in 2014 aided UNICEF in Ethiopia to reach mothers and their babies in remote regions with basic COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING health care and nutritional support. The most oft-heard question asked of UNICEF Australia Three Climb for Kids teams, all of them travelling to staff is “what more can we do”, and it’s the inspiring Mount Kilimanjaro in 2014, raised $170,070 for mobile actions of UNICEF Australia’s community fundraisers who health teams in Ethiopia. offer up the best answer, motivating with their fun runs, charity swims, school talks and movie nights. Among our many fundraisers this year was Melbourne father of two, John Pillay. John ran 50 half marathons in 2014 to raise almost $5,000 for UNICEF’s life-saving work “Participating in the UNICEF for children. Kilimanjaro Climb for Kids was John set himself the challenge after seeing a charity stall at his work late in 2013. “I thought it was about time I one of the most rewarding started to do my bit,” he told his local newspaper, the and life changing experiences Progress Leader. Husband and wife duo, Andrew and Karen Gee, joined I have ever undertaken.” UNICEF Australia on one of two promoted charity runs, 2014 Climb for Kids participant Danny Vedova both in Sydney.

30 | Annual Report 2014 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

UNICEF Australia | 31 SUMMARISED FINANCIAL REPORT

STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014 AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2014 2014 2013 2014 2013 $ $ $ $ (Restated) (Restated) REVENUE ASSETS Donations and Gifts Current assets Monetary 21,856,478 24,306,034 Cash and cash equivalents 7,595,006 6,123,716 Non-monetary 698,292 695,977 Trade and other receivables 380,600 438,814 Bequests and Legacies 676,506 233,016 Other financial assets 49,933 41,166 Grants Total current assets 8,025,539 6,603,696 Overseas - UNICEF Geneva 2,047,740 971,583 Investment Income 215,712 189,559 Non-current assets Other Income 553,939 624,272 Financial assets available for sale 350,832 301,369 Property, plant and equipment 226,987 257,369 TOTAL REVENUE 26,048,667 27,020,441 Total non-current assets 577,819 558,738

EXPENDITURE TOTAL ASSETS 8,603,358 7,162,434 International Aid and Development Programs Expenditure LIABILITIES International Programs Current liabilities Funds to international programs 16,262,977 18,480,416 Trade and other payables 4,896,481 3,584,433 Program Support Costs 190,534 81,937 Provisions 180,594 177,904 16,453,511 18,562,353 Total current liabilities 5,077,075 3,762,337

Community Education 748,793 746,905 Non-current liabilities Fundraising Costs Provisions 59,714 66,667 Public 4,412,429 4,370,895 Total non-current liabilities 59,714 66,667 Funded by UNICEF Geneva 2,047,740 971,583 6,460,169 5,342,478 TOTAL LIABILITIES 5,136,789 3,829,004

Accountability and NET ASSETS 3,466,569 3,333,430 1,407,226 1,330,762 Administration EQUITY Non-monetary Expenditure 698,292 695,977 Reserves 3,466,569 3,333,430 TOTAL EQUITY 3,466,569 3,333,430 Total International Aid and 25,767,991 26,678,475 Development Programs Expenditure

Domestic Programs Expenditure 132,000 60,000

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 25,899,991 26,738,475

EXCESS OF REVENUE OVER 148,676 281,966 EXPENDITURE

Other Comprehensive Income (15,537) 58,035

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME 133,139 340,001 FOR THE YEAR

32 | Annual Report 2014 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

7,410 7,410 133,139 3,333,430 3,466,569 $ 7,587,596 at end of 7,595,006 7,595,006

Total Equity Total financial year financial Cash available Cash available UNICEF Australia | 33 UNICEF during during 133,139 812,821 812,821 3,466,569 $ 3,333,430 22,911,742 22,911,742 23,724,563 Reserves financial year financial Cash disbursed Equity - Retained earnings Grants - DFAT Australian Grants - Other during during

244,500 25,195,853 24,951,353 Cash raised financial year financial For a copy of the full financial report for the year ending 31 December 2014 year ending 31 December 2014 for the of the full financial report a copy For UNICEF Australia has a process for handling any complaints. Please direct your complaints. Please direct your handling any has a process for Australia UNICEF 3. 575,731 5,547,985 5,547,985 6,123,716 6,123,716 financial year financial Cash available Cash available at beginning of The Summary Financial Reports have been prepared in accordance with the requirements set out SummaryThe have Financial Reports

Current Liabilities - Borrowings, current current - Borrowings, Liabilities Current tax liabilities, other financial liabilities or other Liabilities - Borrowings, Non - Current other financial liabilities, Other

UNICEF Australia has no International Political or Religious Proselytisation Programs. 2. Programs. Proselytisation or Religious has no International Political Australia UNICEF Other purposes Philippines Haiyan Emergency Appeal Emergency Philippines Haiyan Balance at 1 January 2014 Balance at 1 January ended 31 December 2014 the year income for comprehensive Total 31 DECEMBER 2014 AT BALANCE TABLE OF CASH MOVEMENTS FOR DESIGNATED PURPOSES DESIGNATED FOR MOVEMENTS OF CASH TABLE STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY OF CHANGES STATEMENT TOTAL please contact us directly on telephone (02) 9261 2811; or email [email protected] or email [email protected] please contact us directly on telephone (02) 9261 2811; 1. categories: had no balances in the following the company At the end of the year

in the ACFID Code of Conduct. For further information on the Code please refer to the ACFID Code of Conduct Guidance Documents available at www.acfid.asn.au Code of Conduct Guidance Documents available ACFID to the on the Code please refer further information Code of Conduct. For ACFID in the complaint to us directly on (02) 9261 2811 or [email protected] 4. or [email protected] complaint to us directly on (02) 9261 2811 - Inventories Assets Current Non - Current Assets - Trade and other receivables, receivables, and other Trade - Assets Non - Current property, other financial assets, investment intangibles assets or other non-current WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM 2014 Community Support Income includes donations and gifts from the Australian public and corporations, both 89% 8% 3% monetary and non-monetary, as well as income from legacies and bequests. Community Support Grants - Other Income UNICEF Geneva Income Grants (DFAT) includes grants received from the Australian Government’s overseas aid program. Grants (Overseas UNICEF Geneva) represents 5 YEAR TREND investment grants from UNICEF Geneva to undertake new fundraising initiatives. $30M year '14 Other Income includes investment income and revenue generated from the sale of cards and $25M Inspired Gifts. year '13 Total revenue in 2014 of $26.0m (2013: $27.0m) reflects the continued generosity of the Australian $20M year '12 public. In 2014, UNICEF Australia responded to the Ebola emergency ($1.27m), South Sudan nutrition $15M year '11 emergency ($0.84m), Syrian crisis ($0.58m) and Typhoon Haiyan ($0.24m). year '10 UNICEF Australia continues to invest in its Global $10M Parent pledge program. This investment has been funded through utilisation of UNICEF Australia’s own resources as well as grants received from UNICEF $5M Geneva. The projected long term benefits of this investment Community Grants Grants Other strategy continue to generate healthy returns which Support Income DFAT UNICEF Income will increase our impact and ensure more children 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 not only survive but thrive.

WHERE THE MONEY GOES Programs Expenditure includes humanitarian FOR EVERY $1 DONATED BY THE PUBLIC development and emergency response work The value of non-monetary donations and gifts as well as fundraising costs that are funded by across international and domestic programs, as UNICEF Geneva and not the public are excluded from this bar chart. well as activity to inform and educate Australians on development and humanitarian issues. 74% 19% 7% As part of this, $3.6million was directly allocated Programs Fundraising Accountability, and managed by UNICEF Australia in line with our Expenditure Costs Administration and Reserves international programs strategy and with contribution to program design, monitoring and technical support. 5 YEAR TREND Fundraising Costs - public - develop and retain $20M donors to fund programs for children and community year '14 education work. Costs are funded from UNICEF Australia’s own resources. year '13 Fundraising Costs - funded by UNICEF Geneva - are $15M channelled to developing the organisation’s Global Parent pledge program, which funds UNICEF’s global year '12 programs. Investment grants from UNICEF Geneva fund pledge program development, with a strict return $10M year '11 on investment protocol.

Accountability and administration costs are costs year '10 required to efficiently run the organisation. It includes such items as staff costs for finance, $5M human resources and administration as well as audit fees, insurance and office maintenance costs. Reserves are maintained by UNICEF Australia to meet its commitments, obligations and other Programs Fundraising Fundraising Accountability Non-Monetary contingencies, and deliver on its objectives in the Expenditure Costs - Public Costs - Funded and Expenditure unanticipated event of significant financial difficulties. by UNICEF Grant Administration At the end of the financial year UNICEF Australia reserves were $3.47 million. 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

34 | Annual Report 2014 Health Nutrition Humanitarian Emergency HIV and AIDS Education Unrestricted Funds FUNDS TO WASH Child Protection

INTERNATIONAL $229,551 $267,441 PROGRAMS $1,170,729 $223,412

WHERE THE NEED IS GREATEST Health In 2014, $8,490,540N utrwasit dedicatedion to UNICEF’s core Humanitarian Emergency Health Nutrition Humanitarian Emergency programs focusing on education, child survival, HIV/ HIV and AIDSAIDS, child protectionEducat and ionresponding to more than Unrestricted Funds HIV and AIDS Education Unrestricted Funds 200 emergencies worldwide.

WASH These funds wereCh distributedild Pro teas ctiona response to where WASH Child Protection the need for children is greatest. For more detailed $784,818 $931,453 information refer to UNICEF’s Report on Regular EAST ASIA Resources available at www.unicef.org/publications AND PACIFIC

$1,396,544 $8,490,540 $767,053 East$160,000 Asia & Pacific Eastern & Southern AfricaMiddle East & North Africa South Asia West & Central Africa Global $10,000 $11,666 HIV/AIDS $22,952 $134,196 $296,866 Health Nutrition Health HumanitarianN Eutrmeit$1,011iorgnency Humanitarian Emergency Humaniarian emergency Humaniarian HIV and AIDS Education Unrestricted Funds HIV and AIDS Education Unrestricted Fund$190,593s $154,352 Health WASH Child ProtectionWASH Child Protection WEST AND EASTERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA SOUTHERN AFRICA

East Asia & Pacific Eastern & Southern AfricaMiddle East & North Africa South Asia East WestAsia & & Pacific Central$331,320 AfricaEastern & Southern$614,406 AfricaGlobalMiddle East & North Africa South Asia West & Central Africa Global $32,199 $37,061 $4817 GLOBAL

SOUTH MIDDLE EAST ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA Health HIV and AIDS WASH

Nutrition Education Child Protection

Humanitarian Emergency Where the Need is Greatest

UNICEF Australia | 35 East Asia & Pacific Eastern & SouthernEast AsiaAfricaMiddle & Pacific East & NorthEastern Africa & SouthernSouth AsiaAfricaMiddle EastWest & & North Central Africa AfricaSouth Asia WestGlobal & Central Africa Global AUDITOR’S REPORT Report of the independent auditor on Directors’ responsibility for the the summary financial statements to the summary financial statements members of Australian Committee for The directors are responsible for the preparation of a UNICEF Limited summary of the audited financial report on the basis described in Note 4. The accompanying summary financial statements, which comprises the summary statement of financial position Auditor’s responsibility as at 31 December 2014, the summary statement of comprehensive income and summary statement of Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the changes in equity for the year then ended, are derived summary financial statements derived from the from the audited financial report of Australian Committee audited financial report of Australian Committee for for UNICEF Australia for the year ended 31 December UNICEF Limited based on our procedures, which 2014. We expressed an unmodified auditor’s opinion on were conducted in accordance with Auditing Standard that financial report in our report dated 28 April 2015. ASA 810 Engagements to Report on Summary Financial Statements. The summary financial statements do not contain all the disclosures required by Australian Accounting Standards Auditor’s opinion – Reduced Disclosure Requirements applied in the In our opinion, the summary financial statements derived preparation of the audited financial report of Australian from the audited financial report of Australian Committee Committee for UNICEF Limited. Reading the summary for UNICEF Limited for the year ended 31 December financial statements, therefore, is not a substitute 2014 are a fair summary, in all material respects, of that for reading the audited financial report of Australian audited financial report, on the basis described in Note 4. Committee for UNICEF Limited. Basis of accounting and restriction on distribution and use Without modifying our opinion, we draw attention to Note 4 to the summary financial statements, which describe the basis of accounting. The summary financial statements have been prepared to assist Australian Committee for UNICEF Limited to meet the requirements of Australian Council for International Development Code of Conduct. As a result, the summary financial statements may not be suitable for another purpose.

KPMG Stephen Isaac Sydney, 28 April 2015 Partner

KPMG, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

36 | Annual Report 2014 COMMITTED TO BEST PRACTICE FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

Australian Committee for UNICEF Limited is committed to achieving best practice in corporate governance for not-for-profit organisations.

Although not a listed company, in developing and continuously improving its corporate governance policies INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION and practices, the company has applied, where relevant, the best practice corporate governance principles laid The company is one of 34 UNICEF National Committees down by the ASX for limited companies. The company’s around the world. Each National Committee operates Audit and Risk Committee and its Board regularly review under a formal Cooperation Agreement and an individually the corporate governance framework to ensure continued agreed Joint Strategic Plan with UNICEF. best practice.

The company’s directors are committed to adding value GOVERNANCE to the organisation by bringing to the Board their broad The company operates under a Constitution. The current range of skills and experience. Brief details on each of the Constitution was formally adopted by the Members at a directors are included on Page 25 of this report. Special General Meeting held on December 15, 2001. The Constitution provides for a voluntary and independent Board of Directors to be responsible for the company’s ESTABLISHMENT overall management and specifies, inter alia, the Board’s AND OPERATIONS powers and responsibilities and how directors are elected and re-elected by the members. Australian Committee for UNICEF Limited is a public company limited by guarantee and established under the The Board has adopted a formal Board charter, which corporations Act 2001. The company has Deductible Gift articulates the role of the Board; the matters the Recipient and income tax exempt charity status with the Board has reserved to itself; Board composition; how Australian Taxation Office and is registered in each State Board meetings are conducted; and directors’ ethical under applicable charitable collections legislation. The standards and leadership. The Board has established risk company is also a registered charity with the Australian identification and management and corporate compliance Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). protocols which are incorporated into the Policies and Procedures Manual. The company is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and has applied Except for those matters which the Board has reserved to the principles of the ACFID Code of Conduct for Non- itself, it has delegated to the chief executive responsibility Government Development Organisations, which sets and authority for managing day-to-day operations but minimum standards of governance, management and subject to the Board’s overall direction and control and full accountability for member agencies. Adherence to the reporting to each Board meeting, which takes place every code is monitored by an independent Code of Conduct two months. Committee.

Complaints relating to a breach of the ACFID Code of Conduct by an ACFID code member can be made to the ACFID Code of Conduct Committee (www.acfid.asn.au/code-of-conduct/complaints).

UNICEF Australia | 37 The Board regularly reviews the company’s financial performance and ensures the risk management and RISK MANAGEMENT corporate compliance protocols it has approved are being followed. The Audit and Risk committee and the Board UNICEF Australia considers risk management an receive detailed budget and financial performance reports integral part of its organisational culture and an essential at each of their meetings. component of its strategic planning and decision making. Its risk management policy identifies those risks facing The Board conducts a board and director performance the organisation, assigns responsibility to managing these assessment on an annual basis. This assessment covers risks and how these should be monitored and reported on the following broad areas: an ongoing basis.

• The adequacy of the processes and protocols that Effective risk management may only occur through govern and manage Board performance. involvement of all members of the organisation. Whilst management maintain the responsibility for responding • The performance and engagement of key office to risks, all staff are required to assist in identifying risks holders on the Board. in the first instance. Consideration of risk is key whenever • The performance and engagement of individual Board there is a significant change in circumstances such as the members as well as the Board committees. introduction of new processes, or implementation of new programmes. Any recommendations following the assessment are then referred to the Chairman of the Board for dissemination An organic risk register is maintained which is then and action. The company’s audited financial statements are updated on a regular basis by all departments within the forwarded to its members each year for consideration at the organisation. Risks are categorised under the following Annual General Meeting and are reported to ASIC, ACFID, headings and ranked based upon likelihood and severity: ACNC and State Government departments responsible for State charitable collections legislation. An abridged version, Strategic – Evaluation of risks relating to an organisation’s which complies with ACFID code of conduct requirements, mission and strategic objectives. is included in this published Annual Report. Regulatory – Evaluation of risks relating to compliance Copies of the full audited financial statements obligations, considering laws & regulations, ethics and business conduct standards, contractual obligations and are available upon request. best practices to which the organisation has committed. Operational – Evaluation of the risks associated with FURTHER INFORMATION failed internal processes, systems or external events. For further information about the company’s Fraud – Evaluation of the potential for fraud and its corporate governance framework, please see impact on organisation’s ethics, compliance standards and the company’s website at www.unicef.org.au integrity. Information technology – Evaluation of risks relating to technology system failures and data security. Financial statement – Evaluation of risks relating to material misstatement of the financial statements. Reputational – Evaluation of risks relating to the organisation’s wider reputation.

Higher ranked risks are summarised and shared with the audit and risk committee and board meetings twice a year.

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Australian Committee for UNICEF Limited ABN 35 060 581 437 UNICEF Australia Annual Report 2014 PO Box 488 Queen Victoria Building NSW 1230 Registered Office: Level 4, 280 Pitt St, Sydney, NSW, 2000 First Published April 2015. All graphs and data correct as at April 2015. © UNICEF Australia For general enquiries and donations: Phone: 1300 884 233 | Fax: 1300 780 522 UNICEF Australia is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and complies with the principles of the ACFID Email: [email protected] | www.unicef.org.au Code of Conduct for Non-Government Development Organisations.