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Bangladesh signs $366,500 grant agreement with UNICEF
Feb 20, 2025The Ministry of Finance’s Economic Relations Division (ERD) and UNICEF, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, also known as the United Nations Children’s Fund, have inked a grant agreement totaling $366,500 (Taka 439.80 Lakh). The three-year... -
Development cooperation: FDFA and EAER implement Parliament’s decisions
Feb 20, 2025The Federal Council was briefed at its meeting on January 29, 2025, on the implementation of the development cooperation measures that Parliament had approved upon. Parliament trimmed CHF 321 million from the 2026–28 financial plan for... -
Multiple disease outbreaks heighten public health emergencies for children across Eastern and Southern Africa
Feb 20, 2025Public health emergencies, including outbreaks of cholera, mpox and, more recently, viral haemorrhagic fevers, are posing significant threats to the safety and wellbeing of millions of children in Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF said today. The... -
Thousands more children deprived of education as crisis in eastern DR Congo escalates
Feb 18, 2025As levels of violence and displacement in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) surge, UNICEF is calling for emergency measures to save the school year for hundreds of thousands of children. Even before the latest... -
Nearly a quarter of a billion children’s schooling was disrupted by climate crises in 2024, UNICEF said
Jan 24, 2025At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF... -
Almost one in eight children internally displaced in Haiti as armed violence continues, UNICEF said
Jan 19, 2025The number of internally displaced children in Haiti has increased by nearly 50 per cent since September – now equaling approximately one in eight children in the entire country – as a result of ongoing violence... -
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah meets children and young people trapped in world’s biggest child displacement crisis
Dec 8, 2024UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah travelled to Sudan this week to meet with children and families affected by the conflict that has devastated the country for the past 19 months. During his visit, Beah – a... -
UNICEF appeals for US$9.9 billion in humanitarian funding to support children affected by conflict and crisis in increasingly volatile world
Dec 5, 2024UNICEF launched a US$ 9.9 billion funding appeal today to reach 109 million children across 146 countries with lifesaving aid in 2025. The funds will be utilized in UNICEF’s humanitarian response to multiple conflicts, climate shocks,... -
UNICEF aids children and families hit by Typhoons Kristine and Leon; residents brace for more storms
Nov 13, 2024The back-to-back onslaught of Typhoons Kristine and Leon caused widespread damage in the Philippines, leaving thousands of families and children without access to safe water and sanitation facilities and disrupting classes for 20 million learners. Severe... -
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell visits China to see progress and challenges for children
Oct 21, 2024UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell travelled to China this week, including the autonomous region of Ningxia, to see first-hand UNICEF’s work for vulnerable children and to learn more about the impact of climate change on the...
