UNICEF Swot Analysis

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History of UNICEF The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is an extended of a small sub-organization created in 1947. It was established through General Assembly resolution 57 (1) as a relief organization for European child refugees after Second World War, the 1952 extension of UNICEF’s mandate made it an official UN Programme and Fund, marked with successful global campaign to against yaws, a disfiguring childhood disease. As world’s leading organization aims to advocate for children, there are more than 7,000 people working for it in 190 countries around the world with 36 National Committees and New York as its Headquarter. UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. It has the …show more content…

In the 2000s, UNICEF moved towards increasingly accessible global operations, creating the “Say Yes for Children” campaign, and in 2000 committed itself to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through the five main strategic areas of: young child survival and development; basic education and gender equality; HIV/AIDS and children; child protection; policy analysis, advocacy, and partnership for children’s …show more content…

UNICEF has both a normative role in devising and setting international standards, and an operational role carried out at field level in areas such as emergency relief and rehabilitation; health; nutrition; education; water and sanitation; the environment; child protection; and gender issues and development. The Executive Board, as the main supervisors of UNICEF’s work, is also fully in charge of all documents adopted by the organization. Important examples of these include the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990), which UNICEF was a main contributor towards; the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (2010); the annual “State of the World’s Children” report; the “Progress for Children” report (updated annually or biannually); and the “Committing to Child Survival” report. These reports are presented to ECOSOC and the General Assembly, to deliver information on the progress made by UNICEF in child welfare and which areas need further support, and make recommendations. To meet the mandate, UNICEF can work in coordination with United Nations partners and humanitarian agencies, particularly other intergovernmental organizations. These include: the Task Force on Children and Armed Conflict; the Inter-Agency Network on Youth

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