UNICEF ( UNITED NATIONS

INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FUND )

KEERTHANA
CHAINDRA SAKER
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 HISTORY OF UNICEF

 Established on 11th december 1946 by united nations general assembly

 To provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that
had been devastated by world war 2
 Lunwik rajchmann a polish bacteriologist ,is regarded as the founder of
UNICEF
 1946 focused on food to europe
 In 1953 ,UNICEF became a permanent part of the united nations system
 In 1959 declaration of the rights of the children
 In 1961 mainly focused on education to children
 UNICEF was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1965 and the prince of
asturias award of concord in 2006
 FUNDRAISING

Sponsorship
Trick –or – treat
Art in all of us
Corporate partnership
 INTERNATIONAL UNICEF COUCIL

 Helping intertribal children education

 Improving the development of the intertribal
community children education life
 They make the intertribal children to realize their
dreams and break the vicious circle of poverty
 They improve the Eco system and provide
educational and mentoring support
 They work for with visions of happy healthy and
creative children
 FOCUS AREAS

 CHILD NUTRITION
 Low cost protein rich food
 With FAO ,aided applied nutrition programme
 enriched food in endemic areas of nutritional
deficiency
 IMMUNISATION
 Production of vaccines & distribution
 PREVENT SPREAD OF HIV
 Antiretroviral medicines for children & mothers with
HIV
 FUNDRAISING

Sponsorship
Trick –or – treat
Art in all of us
Corporate partnership
 FUNDRAISING

Sponsorship
Trick –or – treat
Art in all of us
Corporate partnership
Water
Sanitation
Hygiene
UNICEF TAP PROJECT IN 2007 , new york for clean accessible
water
 Basic education & gender equality
quality based education for boys & girls
educational supplies
 Child protection from
• Violence
• Exploitation
• Abuse
 GOBI CAMPAIGN

To encourage strategies for child health revolution

Growth charts to monitor child development
Oral rehydration
Breast feeding
Immunisation
 UNICEF IN HEALTH

In collaboration with WHO,FAO,UNDP,&UNESCO

More attention on health aspects of mother &child
Eradicate TB,malaria,venereal disease –with WHO
Recently ,idea of ” whole child”
country health programme
CONTRIBUTION S
 BCG vaccination programme
 Penicillin plant –pune
 Triple vaccine plants
 UNICEF STRUCTURE

Over 190 countries in territories

More than 200 country offices
Headquarters in new york
36 members excutive board ,by UNITED NATIONS
ECOSOC (economic &social council ) for three years
term
Excutive director has 5 yer mandate
Present executive director of UNICEF is anthony
lake
 UNICEF INDIA

The organisation began it work in india in 1949

 1975 – integrated child development services
 1985 – national mission on immunization
 2001 – gujarat earthquake
 2004 – tsunami relief
 2012- polio campaign