This publication links social protection with disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It develops an integrated understanding of vulnerability and identifies four steps for governments and development partners to strengthen the linkages between the technical areas.
The number of under-five deaths worldwide has declined from 12.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2013 according to this annual UNICEF report on child mortality released today. Says that India along with Nigeria account for the highest under-five deaths in the world
Africa's under eighteen population is expected to increase by 1 billion while overall population will double in size reaching 2.4 billion by 2050, a new report by the UN says.
This new report published by the the UNICEF Office of Research details both the accelerating global threats to children, as well as the urgent need to incorporate a comprehensive chil
WHO/UNICEF's Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) reports every two years on progress against the MDG Indicators on drinking water and sanitation: "The proportion of population using an improved drinking water source" and "The proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility", separately for rural and urban areas. JMP is the only drinking water and sanitation monitoring mechanism that provides information allowing comparison between countries and over time. This is the statistical table for JMP 2014 report.
This 2014 edition on "State of the World's Childre" by UNICEF report emphasizes the importance of credible, inclusive data about children's situations to realize children's rights, improve their lives and expose and address unequal access to protection and services.
Birth registration is a critical first step towards protecting children throughout their lives. Nearly 230 million children under the age of five in the world have not had their births registered. The report presents latest available data and estimates on birth registration in 161 countries.
This UNICEF report bears out the reality that young people around the world understand that the damage that is being done to the Earth by man-fuelled climate change is damage that their generation will have to suffer, pay for, and attempt to rectify.
India (22%) and Nigeria (13%) together account for more than one-third of all deaths of children under the age of five according to this new report released by UNICEF, WHO, World Bank & the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division.
This new report published by the the UNICEF Office of Research details both the accelerating global threats to children, as well as the urgent need to incorporate a comprehensive chil
