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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 363 426 PS 021 858 TITLE UNICEF Annual Report, 1993. INSTITUTION United Nations Children's Find, New York, N.Y. PUB DATE [93] NOTE 73p. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MFOI/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Annual Reports; *Child Health;*Child Welfare; *Developing Nations; *Family Programs; Financial Support; Foreign Countries;*International Programs; Technical Assistance IDENTIFIERS *UNICEF; United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child; Women in Development Programs ABSTRACT This annual report for the United NationsChildren's Fund (UNICEF) details the programs andservices provided by this organization in 1992-93. Following anintroduction by UNICEF's executive director, the report briefly reviewsUNICEF activities for 1992, then describes specific projects in thefollowing areas: (1) child survival and development; (2) basiceducation; (3) water and environmental sanitation;(4) sustainable development;(5) urban basic services;(6) childhood disability;(7) children in especially difficult circumstances; (8) women indevelopment; (9) emergency relief and rehabilitation; (10) socialmobilization; (11) evaluation and research;(12) interagency cooperation; and (13) World Bank-UNICEF cooperation in India. Throughoutthis section, detailed profiles are included for programs in Cameroon,Thailand, Bolivia, the Sudan, India, and Morocco. The nextsection describes UNICEF's external reltions, including theConvention on the Rights of the Child, national committees, and greetingcard operations. 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"Mt 4014 PERMISSICN TO REPRODUCE THIS car MATERIAL ....AS BEEN GRANTED BY unicei and United Nati= Children's Fund TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC).- 'BEST COPY AVAILABLE UNICEFExecutive Board 1 August 1992 to 31 July 1993 OFFICERS FOR 1992/1993: EXECUTIVE BOARD: CHAIRMAN: Mr. Frederick Ward (Canada) FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN: Miss Maymouna Diop (Senegal) SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN: Dr. Vaclav Vacek (Czech Republic) THIRD VICE-CHAIRMAN: H . E. Dr. Jayaraj Acharya (Nepal) FOURTH VICE-CHAIRMAN: H.E. Dr. Lucille Mair (Jamaica) PROGRAMMECOMMITTEE: CHAIRMAN: H.E. Dr. Roberto Mayorga-Cortes (Nicaragua) VICE-CHAIRMAN: (vacant) COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE! CHAIRMAN: Ms. Birte Poulsen (Denmark) VICE-CHAIRMAN: Miss Khadijatu Mansaray (Sierra Leone) MEMBERS OF THE BOARD: Angola India Senegal Austral ia Indonesia Sierra Leone Brazil Italy Spain Bulgaria Jamaica Sri Lanka Canada Japan Sweden Central African Liberia Switzerland Republic Mozambique United Kingdom ot China Nepal Great Britain and Colombia Netherlands Northern Ireland Congo N icaragua United Republic Costa Rica Ni Tway Czec h Republic Pakistan United States Denmark Republic of ot America Ethiopia Korea Uruguay France Russian Yemen Ciermany Federation Thgoslavia Cover photographs 1 Eper lett1 ;till 'EF 88,00.S In tw '1,(.0- ni;hiI ;ti I( :LE I IN '19 Fiorner Ktvr lett IIN Ii 'EF 92 -E429 Letno% or :3 ndy. LItilt :Ft ( '99 21 Tomu,, 1993 UNICEFANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS iNTRODUCTION. INTRODUCTION 1W THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JAMES P GRANT 3 . 1992A REVIEW 7 WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION ..27 CONFERENCE PURSUES GOALS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - IOR AFRICA'S CHILDREN 10 THE ENVIRONMENT 31 CHILD SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENT 1 I URBAN BASIC SERVICES 33 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 11 CHILDHOOD DISABILITY 35 TliE BAMAKO INITIATIVE 11 CHILDREN IN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT UNIVERSAL CHILI) IMMUNIZATION 13 C/RCUMSTANCES 36 38 ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECT-IONS 15 WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT Ck)NTROL OF DIARRHOEAL DISEASES 15 EMERGENCY RELIEF AND REHABILITATION 40 IPS ANI) CHILDREN 16 SOCIAL MOBILIZATION/FACTS FOR LIFE 42 NUTRITION 18 EVALUATION AND RESEARCH 43 SAFE MOTHERHCX)D AND FAMILY INTER-AGENCY COOPERATION 45 PLANNING DEVELOPMENT WITH A HUMAN FACE 46 73 BREATFEEDING WORLD BANK - UNICEF COOPERATION BASIC EDUCATION 24 IN INDIA 46 MOBILIZING FOR CHILDREN 49 NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 56 CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD ..53 FUND-RAISING 57 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 54 PUBLIC ADVOCACY 57 NATIONAL COMMaTPES 55 GREETING CARD AND RELATED OPERATIONS 59 UNICEF FINANCES, 1991-1993 61 LIQUIDITY PROVISION 66 1Ncom 61 INFORMATION RESOURCES EXPENDITURES 62 MANAGEMENT 66 FINANCIAL PLAN AND PROSPECTS 62 HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 66 IX;ET ESTIMATES 62 SUPPLY MANAGEMENT 68 HOPE RESTORED IN YEMESSOA 12 CHILD-FRIENDLY VILLAGES 29 BRIGHTER DAYS IN BAN DAWN 19 DEVKALI'S DIARY: HOPE FOR AN URBAN SLUM 34 THE LANGUAGE OF EDUCATION 26 EDUCATE A GIRL, EDUCATE A NATION 39 : , . Table: UNICEF PROGRAMMES FROM Charts: UNICEF EXPENDITURES ON GENERAL RESOURCES 44 PROGRAMMES BY SECTOR 1988/1992 63 Chart: UNICEF INCOME BY SOURCE 1992 61 Table: 1992 GOVERNMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS ...64 Chart: UNICEF INCOME 1991-1993 6! Table: 1992 NON-GOVERNMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS . 67 62 (ilossary 69 Chart: UNICEF EXPENDITURES 1991-1993 4 /If 4;tat 7- 41 *so 1. wc. a' Sf- 511 rk el / A .7 oft L - I.' X 7 -* LUa. LU 1,11 2 4 > - 4?" alsimirmah 11 \ 1993 I NICEF REPORT iolent acts of man In1992, the world was largely unnoticed by the media. and nature chal- shocked by the deaths of about The needs of those children lenged the con- 500,000 children as a result of were overshadowed by the tele- science and resources of our 'loud emergencies. The an- vised profile ot 1,000 children global village last year as rarely guished faces of those children who died each day at the height before. from Somalia, the Sudan, for- of the Somalia emergency. iiNIC:EF was involved in 50 mer Yugoslavia and otherdis- Such silent emergencies major humanitarian relief oper- tant lands were in our living claimed the lives of nearly 12 ations caused by events which rooms night after night. million of the 12.5 million chil- ranged from drought and floods What the cameras missed last dren who died in 1992 and will to volcanic eruptions and civil year were the silent emergencies take at least as many again this wars. Long gone are the days the hidden suffering of mil- year. We cannot allow those when the world was blind to suf- lions of other child victims of deaths to remain in the shad- fering in far-off places. A revo- malnutrition,diseaseand ows. Some 35,000 children are lution in communications has endemic poverty. The cameras dying every day, the great major- made it impossible to conceal missed the 'silent' trauma ot ity from causes which we can large-scale famine or violence. deathdeath because children prevent at very low cost. No Or for our leaders to avoid the were not immunized, because earthquake, flood or war has question: "What are you doing their communities lacked safe taken the lives of 250,000 chil- about it!" water and sanitationind dren in a single week, and vet Television and news-hungry because their parents were un- that is what is happening week media have brought these 'loud' aware of oral rehydration ther- after week in the world's poorest emergencies into our homes, our apy (ORT). They also missed the countries. offices and our schools. The tens of thousands of otherwise The international commu- world of CNN reaches out to us healthy children who went nity must also come to terms even as we wait on line at the blind because their parents did with the fact that increasing supermarket or the bank. We not know that vitamin A in the demands are being placed on 3 can turn a blind eye hut the right foods or a capsule could limited resources. At the time of imprint of suffering is not easily save the sight of a con or writing there were 45 civil and erased. At the very least, we daughter. ethnic conflicts raging around have to ask ourselves: "What are The deaths of some 5,000 the world, in addition to natural we going to do about it!" children every day from diar- disasters and the ongoing silent In developing countries, tele- rhoeal dehydration passed emergency. vised images of the environment and lifestyles in the industrial- i:ed world also have the power to shock and invite comparison. Awareness of opportunities else- where in the global village has fuelled democracy movements and helped to break down bar- riers, iwerpower authoritarian regimes and transform the con- duct ot national and interna- tional affairs. The graphic repetition of scenes of violence and suffering has a downside. The recent pro- liferation of emergencies shout- ing for our attention carries with it the risk of 'compassion fatigue' a numbing of the senses. It can also distort perceptions of the scale of suffering in relation to human needs elsewhere. 6 INTRODUCTION Every life is precious, and we grammes supported by uNicEF action (NPAs) to seriously pursue welcome the increasing inter- have shown that much can be those goals have been, or arc national respohse to the fires done towards teaching children being, prepared. sparked by loud emergencies, to get along with their neigh- If our goals for children in the but the nations of the world bours and reduce conflict. 1990s are