Financial resources continue to be a bottleneck to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 for almost all low- and middle-income countries. Leveraging financial resources is one of the six progra...
To meet the SDG WASH targets it is now widely recognised as essential to have strong systems to support the delivery of WASH services and goods ‘for all’, everywhere, and forever. An intentional shift...
Less than 50% of Ghanaians practice safe hand hygiene in Ghana (MICS 2017/18). As a result, the potential impact of disease outbreaks like cholera puts the lives of the populations at risk. As a compo...
This Field Note brings to light the findings of a project entitled “Making Development Disability-Inclusive for All Children in Nepal” implemented by UNICEF Nepal and its partners (2019-2022) that aim...
Inadequate WASH services and behaviours result in diarrhoea, cholera, respiratory infections, malnutrition and stunting with cognitive development impacts. UNICEF believes immediate and concerted effo...
UNICEF will use its participation in the UN 2023 Water Conference to reinforce its support to the Water Action Agenda. UNICEF has articulated its commitments to WASH in the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-...
In collaboration with Urban Settlement Development Authority and Health Promotion Bureau, UNICEF developed a MHH booklet on menstrual cycle, symptoms and treatment of menstrual cramps, importance of m...
The opportunity before us is to promote water security; in so doing, we are quite simply safeguarding life. This can only be achieved if people have access to water that is safe and affordable, from r...
Key messages
The effects of water scarcity on business, people and the planet are interlinked. Securing an adequate supply of clean water despite the damage inflicted by climate change is one of the ...