United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
To address the challenges related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), UNICEF works with partners to strengthen national systems, with particular attention to gender considerations; UNICEF also support initiatives for WASH in schools and health centres, taking into account the specific needs of women, girls and children living with disabilities.
Integrating the core principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme UNICEF as per new UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2018–2021 for children, UNICEF WASH support focusses on action within SDG Goal 6: “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” which include delivering safe water to unreached populations, improved girl-friendly sanitation and handwashing facilities, and the delivery of services in homes, schools and health centres in times of stability and conflict alike
Strengthening the Enabling Environment, WASH Bottleneck Analysis
As schools worldwide struggle with reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 per cent of schools around the world lacked access to basic handwashing with soap and water in 2019 – a key condition for schools to be able to operate safely in the mids … Read more
The Hand Hygiene for All is a call to action for all of society to achieve universal hand hygiene and stopping the spread of COVID-19. On Friday WHO and UNICEF launched the Hand Hygiene for All Global Initiative which aims to implement WHO’s global recommendations on hand hygiene to prevent and cont … Read more
UNICEF: Over 5 million children in Yemen are facing a heightened threat of cholera UN-Water 7 May, 2020 UNICEF, warns that over 5 million children under the age of five in Yemen are facing a heightened threat of cholera and Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) as the country continues to experience increase … Read more
The 2020 Data Drive: Joining Forces to Report on Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 UN-Water 4 May, 2020 The SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 concluded that the world is far from reaching SDG 6 on water and sanitation, which may jeopardize the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develop … Read more
UNICEF Global Framework for Urban WASH UN-Water 6 April, 2020 As of 2018 an estimated 4.2 billion people, or 55 per cent of the global population, were living in urban areas. A third of them were children, and about 300 million of these children were living in slums – the worst form of informal sett … Read more
