The floods in Tana River County, Kenya, washed away families' homes and livelihoods.

Thanks to support from UK in Kenya 🇬🇧🇰🇪, UNICEF Kenya is helping families move on and reduce their vulnerability to future crises. unicef.org/kenya/stories/…

‘“Humanitarian cash transfers are a proven and cost-effective means of quickly getting support to those who need it most during emergencies”. Indeed. The moment to scale up HCT and social protection is now. Gaby Guerrero-Serdán Sarah Hague UNICEF Social Policy

Excellent news! congrats to the team! Important milestone to scale-up gender transformative #socialprotection UNICEF Social Policy Lauren Whitehead Sarah Hague

Thanks to AECID for their support to child poverty analysis and capacity-building in Eswatini! Natalia Winder Rossi

2024 has to be the year we reshape the global financial 'architecture' - does it make sense that the countries where most of the world's poorest children live have the highest levels of debt? - Sub-Saharan Africa has 29 countries with debt over 50% of GDP imf.org/en/Publication…

On #MigrantsDay we call for protection of rights of all child migrants. Respecting the right to family life, ending detention & reducing discrimination are in the best interests of every child. Discriminating against migrant children, is unacceptable. #ForEveryChild Inclusion

Adaptive and child-sensitive social protection must be central to climate response.

This way, we can shield vulnerable groups from the worst impacts of climate-related loss and damage.

Join us at #COP28 : uni.cf/3RpVa02

Great conversation with Keith Hansen World Bank on how we strengthen safety nets for families, esp. most disadvantaged. Good News - our joint project providing shock responsive safety nets in #Somalia shows it is working.

🙌 L'autonomisation économique des #femmes , un pari réussi à la colline #Kibiri de la commune et province Province Gitega, grâce à l'appui de l'UNICEF Burundi

🔰 Regroupées dans des associations d'épargne et de #crédit , les femmes de cette localité ont déjà initié des activités…

New blog post on the critical experience of the first child grants programme in Angola. Key impacts on women's economic decision-making, children's' outcomes and food security. Louise Moreira Daniels UNICEF Innocenti UNICEF Angola

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Even when the context is challenging, good things can happen - congratulations to the UNICEF South Sudan team for making the first payment of a young child grant, starting small scale and with support UNICEF South Sudan tayllor spadafora UK in South Sudan 🇬🇧🇸🇸 Anna Storm Hanssen

Over 200 days of war leaves a generation of children in Sudan on the brink shar.es/ag3HFh

200 days of war.

In Sudan, children continue to pay the highest price for a crisis not of their making - increasingly with their own lives.

As humanitarian needs grow, this is how UNICEF is supporting vulnerable families.

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Today is the most somber #UNDay I can remember in my 35 years with the United Nations.

A call — if nothing else — that we must summon all energies to prevent this jigsaw of wars from becoming one, irreparable global conflict.

A call to world leaders to step back from the brink.

NEW: UN Human Rights NY Office Director Craig Mokhiber resigns in protest over timidity of key parts of #UN system on issues pertaining to Palestinian Human Rights. In letter to Volker Türk he says: 'This is a text-book case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler…

Good to see increasing commitment to social protection in Uganda at today's national social protection dialogue UNICEF Uganda Tawanda Chinembiri Munir Safieldin, Ph.D.

We have lost touch with our colleagues in Gaza.
 
I’m extremely concerned about their safety and another night of unspeakable horror for 1M children in #Gaza .
 
All humanitarians and the children and families they serve MUST be protected.

Globally, children living in extreme poverty are now overwhelmingly concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa—7 out of 10 of the world’s poorest children live there.

Here are the recent child poverty trends from the region via UNICEF Africa: uni.cf/3PYXAkb

#EndChildPoverty

UNICEF is on the ground in the #GazaStrip and providing over 1,000 extremely vulnerable households with humanitarian cash for families and their #children to meet their basic humanitarian needs. 🙏Thanks to EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺, EU Humanitarian Aid | Middle East & North Africa

#ForEveryChild , protection

As we mark #EndPoverty Day there is good & bad news for children in Africa. Good - the proportion of children living in extreme poverty has gone down.
But….globally, extreme child poverty is now heavily concentrated in Africa. Read more here: uni.cf/3PYXAkb