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This Toolkit for Action provides UNICEF staff, and partners with one source of information on recommended nutrition actions for emergency preparedness, response and recovery. The Toolkit for Action provides a range...

The inter-agency team released new joint estimates for child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting (March 2020 edition) using the same methodology as in previous...

Good nutrition is the bedrock of child survival, health and development. Well-nourished children are better able to grow and learn, to participate in and contribute to their communities, and to be resilient...

WHO Member States endorsed six global nutrition targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition in 2012.The translation of the global targets into national ones...

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of children and their families as health systems buckle, borders close, and schools and businesses shutter. As the coronavirus has spread, so...

Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire...

The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene presents updated national, regional and global estimates for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in households in its...

The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) produces estimates of child and young adolescent mortality annually, reconciling the differences across data...

At the end of 2018 over 17 million children were internally displaced by conflict or violence, and millions more by disasters or other causes.Within a global context of increasing urbanization...

This report is part of a series of UNICEF reports tracking progress on the child-related indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This 2019 edition revisits the conclusions of Progress for Every Child...