Annual Results Report 2017 | CHILD PROTECTION
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HEALTH HIV AND AIDS WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE Annual Results Report NUTRITION EDUCATION CHILD PROTECTION 2017 SOCIAL INCLUSION GENDER EQUALITY Child Protection HUMANITARIAN ACTION The UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2014–2017 guides the organization’s work in support of the realization of the rights of every child. At its core, the UNICEF equity strategy – which emphasizes reaching the most disadvantaged and excluded children, caregivers and families – translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. The following report summarizes how UNICEF and its partners contributed to child protection in 2017, and reviews the impact of these accomplishments on children and the communities in which they live. This is one of nine reports on the results of efforts during the past year, encompassing gender and humanitarian action as well as each of the seven strategic plan outcome areas – health; HIV and AIDS; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); nutrition; education; child protection; and social inclusion. It complements the 2017 Executive Director Annual Report, UNICEF’s official accountability document for the past year. Cover image: @Rodrigo ZAIM, R.U.A. Foto Coletivo A child and adult at play during organized recreational activities conducted by local civil society organizations. These activities are part of a larger programme to support children and families living on the streets in São Paulo, Brazil. 1 CONTENTS Executive Summary ......................... 2 Strategic Context ........................... 6 Results by Programme Area ................. 11 Programme Area 1: Data and child protection ............................................................. 18 Programme Area 2: Child protection systems ............................................................ 24 Programme Area 3: Violence against children ............................................................ 30 Programme Area 4: Justice for children ....................................................................... 42 Programme Area 5: Birth registration .......................................................................... 45 Programme Area 6: Child protection and emergencies ............................................. 49 Programme Area 7: Strengthening families and communities .................................. 60 Cross-cutting Areas Narrative ..................................................... 70 Future Workplan: UNICEF strategic plan, 2018-2021 ............. 74 Expression of Thanks....................... 79 Abbreviations and Acronyms ................ 80 Endnotes ................................. 81 Annexes.................................. 83 Annex 1: Financial Analysis ......................................................... 83 Annex 2: Data Companion ......................................................... 100 Annex 3: List of Partners ............................................................. 116 2017 Thematic Funds Financial Statement..... 119 2 UNICEF Annual Results Report 2017 | CHILD PROTECTION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The child protection sector is at a watershed moment. Almost one in five homicide victims worldwide was a child Global commitments to address child protection issues are – 70 per cent of whom were adolescent boys. Very few accelerating with the integration of relevant targets into children who are victims of violence seek professional the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a significant help, and even those that do, rarely receive support. An departure from the Millennium Development Goals that estimated 168 million children (aged 5–17 years) are failed to address these issues directly. Together with the working – including a staggering one in four children in increased availability of data and evidence on good practice some of the world’s poorest countries. More than 650 programming, child protection is poised to make significant million children under the age of 16 years are without a strides in achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda. birth certificate. If current rates prevail, more than 150 million additional girls will marry before their 18th birthday This momentum will be necessary to address the growing and 68 million more girls will undergo female genital scale of child protection concerns. Over the past 10 years, mutilation (FGM) by 2030. the number of political conflicts alone has almost doubled, and nearly one in four children live in countries affected by These challenges will be further compounded by humanitarian crises. Every 7 minutes an adolescent is killed anticipated changes in the global landscape. The changing by an act of violence. Around 7 in 10 (300 million) children nature of humanitarian conflicts and increasing number aged 2–4 years worldwide are regularly subjected to of children on the move, calls for enhanced advocacy for violent discipline in the home. Around 15 million adolescent children’s rights and basic protection, and sustained action girls (aged 15–19 years) have experienced forced sexual to strengthen the humanitarian–development nexus. The intercourse in their lifetime. More than one in three (130 impact of a growing population and changing urban–rural million) students aged 13–15 years experience bullying. demographics increases the burden on social service © UNICEF/UN0161379/Thuentap Playtime for preschool children in Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand. UNICEF provides technical support to schools in offering holistic development to small children. 3 structures. This is likely to be further heightened as many a long-needed foundation for coherent evidence-based new arrivals move to informal settlements, elevating guidance for multisectoral programming on addressing the risk of violence, abuse, and social and economic violence in all settings including in the home, in schools, marginalization. Moreover, the rapid digitalization of the and in communities. world, while bringing a wealth of benefits, is increasingly exposing children to a growing threat of online exploitation UNICEF is increasingly prioritizing programming focused and abuse. on prevention of child protection threats in humanitarian contexts. To prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse, a framework for global coordinated action was established, and capacity scaled up in 16 high-risk UNICEF’s work and key results in countries. The UNICEF 2016 Six-Point Agenda for Action 2017 for uprooted children is providing a critical framework for the organization’s engagement towards the planned 2018 Significant progress in child protection capped the final year Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2014–2017, with interventions and the Global Compact on Refugees. reaching more children than ever before. Since 2014, more than 52 million children have had their births registered As a global leader on data for child protection, UNICEF has through UNICEF-supported programmes; around 25 million accelerated national, regional and global efforts to improve girls and boys involved in child labour were reached by data coherence and develop a robust infrastructure for one or more UNICEF-supported interventions; around 24 global monitoring. With only one fifth of countries having million people in almost 9,000 communities made public sufficient data to assess progress towards protection- declarations to abandon FGM; and over 11 million people related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustained were reached through community-based messaging on long-term investment is crucial. UNICEF is sole data child marriage. UNICEF has significantly scaled up action to custodian for 10 SDG indicators and joint custodian address gender-based violence in emergencies, increasing for a further seven. Of these 17 indicators, 8 are child coverage from a reach of over 400,000 girls, boys and protection indicators. UNICEF is ramping up efforts to women in 2014 to about 3.6 million in 2017. Since 2014, meet this challenge by mainstreaming data on children and more than 120,000 children released from armed forces adolescents into national systems and plans, developing and groups received appropriate care and services through universal indicators and measurement tools, and supporting UNICEF and partner advocacy and support; and close to national capacities to monitor and use SDG indicators. 15 million girls and boys received weapons-related risk UNICEF has led the way on the availability of data, education. including, most recently, through the publication of UNICEF has worked to protect children from violence, A Familiar Face: Violence in the lives of children and exploitation and harmful practices at multiple levels – from adolescents. UNICEF represents one of a core group of strengthening the capacity of front-line social workers to lead agencies that created INSPIRE: Seven strategies building systems, such as in Kenya, Philippines, Serbia for ending violence against children, which provides a and the United Republic of Tanzania; building knowledge global framework for action to meet SDG targets and is and gathering evidence, including developing at least 187 supporting the development of an INSPIRE implementation knowledge products in 2017; advancing agreements on strategy and monitoring framework. Furthermore, in the protection-related child rights at the normative level through context of SDG 16, UNICEF, the United Nations Special input into the United Nations Third Committee process Representative for the Secretary-General on Violence including co-authoring of the Secretary-General’s annual against