UNICEF

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL

CHILDREN EMERGENCY FUND

The unicef is one of the specialized agencies of united

nations.
It was established in 1946 by the united nations general
assembly to deal with rehabilitation of children .
It is governed by a 30 national executive board.
UNICEF works in close collaboration with WHO and
specialized agencies of united nations such as UNDP,
FAO, UNESCO.
UNICEF is giving support and care to the children of
these nations.
 MEMBERSHIP OF UNICEF
At present 105 countris are its members. In india ,
there are total 10 offices in different states with
headquarters in New Delhi.
The states maharastra, tamil nadu, west bengal,
rajasthan, gujarat, madhya pradesh, andhra
pradesh, uttar pradesh and bihar.
 FUNCTIONS OF UNICEF
 To assisting develpoing economies to meet the needs of
children and youth.
 To assistance in the planning and design of services for
children, delivery of supplies, and equipment for these
services, and provision of funds for the training of
mush needed personnel.
 To improving heath care of children, their nutrition,
drinking water supply, early education in short and the
elementry services.
 To assistance to maternal and childe health which
include clean water projects, account for over half of
total expenditure.
 ACTIVITIES OF UNICEF
 CHILD HEALTH
It provide maternal and child health services,
immunization, family planning, aspects of the family
health, safe, sufficient and accessible drinking water,
adequate sanitation, and health and nutrition
programme.
It includes :
- Primary health care :- to encouraging and
cooperating to extension of maternal and child
centres to the local or community level for many
years.
 Immunization :-
It delivers number of vaccines simultaneously.
To assistance is particularly aims at strengthing
national management training and technical and
logistic support system including effective cold
chains to protect vaccine potency.
 Rural water supply and sanitation

 Child nutrition
 VILLEGE LEVEL TECHNOLOGY
to assist the development and promotion of low-cost
indigenously based technologies.
 FORMAL AND NON- FORMAL EDUCATION

 SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN

 URBAN SERVICES

It includes :
 Mother and child health services

 Communicable disease control measures

 Child feeding

 Non- formal education program and community

and day care centers.

 EMERGENCY RELIEF AND REHABILITATION
 UNICEF IN INDIA
 HEALTH
 To providing water supplies to rural areas and
local people are able to maintain their hand
pumps.
 To promoting better standard of hygiene and
sanitation.
 NGOs and UNICEF supplying water to over
500 million people.
 EDUCATION :
 One third of india’s school age population are not
attending scholl some 30 million children.
 So, UNICEF providing universal primary
education, having number of adult illiterates and
providing early childhood education for young
children.
 NUTRITION AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT:
 It supports the ICDS programme of government,
which aims to improve nutritional as well as health
status.
 UNICEF is working to meet special needs of girls,
encourage girls education, to delay marriage and to
combat female infanticide.
 UNICEF ACTIVITIES AROUND THE
COUNTRY
 ANDHRA PRADESH
 women’s development

 BIHAR

 Basic education regarding universal primary

education, disparity reduction through

reaching the disadvantages and women’s
empowerment.
 MAHARASHTRA

- AIDS awereness
 RAJASTHAN
 Guinea worm eradication

 TAMIL NADU

- Elimination of child labor.

 UNICEF GREETING CARD

 The UNICEF greeting cards started when a 7

year old czechoslovakian and jitka sonkova
painted a picture and gave it to UNICEF.
 This became the first UNICEF greeting card
and 130,000 copies were sold.
 Today sales of UNICEF cards and gifts are an
important and growing source of income for
UNICEF.
 Each year over 150 million cards are sold
around the world.
 In India , over 4 million cards were sold last year , generating
revenue around $300,000 for UNICEF’s activities to benefit
children in India.
 UNICEF encouraged strategies for child health as GOBI + 3Fs in

which each letter stands for :

 G – growth charts monitor child development from birth to 6

years.
 O- oral rehydration.

 B – breastfeeding

 I – immunization.

 F – female literacy

 F- family planning

 F – food

- UNICEF also provides scholarships to health personnel for higher

education in maternal and child health.