Countdown to 2015 Bangladesh [Website]

This document is an example of one of the data visualizations available from UNICEF’s website www.childinfo.org, which contains UNICEF’s statistical information, including data used in UNICEF’s flagship publications, The State of the World’s Children and Progress for Children.

For many of the countries listed on the site, the user can review a data sheet for “Countdown to 2015.” This data sheet provides statistics about demographics, policies, interventions, and other aspects affecting health issues.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

COVID and KIDS: A Video Animation from Malawi

UNICEF with support from UKAid is influencing children in Malawi to practice 5 key actions to prevent COVID-19: frequent handwashing with soap, physical distancing, use of the flexed elbow when coughing and sneezing, avoiding touching the face (mouth, nose and eyes) and staying at home.

Source: UNICEF, UK AID

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Ebola Key Messages

This poster describes what Ebola is, its signs and symptoms, how it is spread, how to prevent it, and how to treat it.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Four Things You Can Do to Support Your Teen’s Mental Health

This is guidance for parents to help them deal with their teenagers’ mental health, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The four things parents can do are:

  1. Encourage them to share their feelings
  2. Take the time to support them
  3. Work through conflict together
  4. Care for yourself

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

gCHV Training on Ebola Flipbook and IPC

The learning objectives of this presentation are for the trainee to be able to tell others

  • About the signs and symptoms of Ebola
  • About how Ebola is spread and how to prevent the spread
  • What to do if someone has the signs and symptoms or has died from Ebola
  • What to do if you have to wait for a help team
  • About testing, treatment centers, contacts, and help teams

Source: WHO, UNICEF, Healthy Life Liberia

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Girls around the World Talk about Their Lives and Their Rights [Video]

This video was created for and shown at a March 2010 UNICEF-organized event in New York which marked the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. Adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, the Beijing Platform is the world’s most comprehensive framework for achieving gender equality. The video outlines efforts worldwide to improve the rights and lives of girls, via interviews with girls and women who talk about the inequities in their lives vis a vis the lives of men.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

How Best to Protect Yourself from the Coronavirus

This poster, produced by UNICEF and ICRF, provides basic information in an attractive and child-friendly layout, about handwashing, wearing a mask, physical distancing, and what to do if you don’t feel well.

Source: UNICEF, ICRF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Malnutrition and Gender Equality in India

This video describes the story of nine-month-old twins Devki and Rahul who were brought by their mother to the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre in Kolaras, located in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Rahul was a normal weight and size for his age, yet his sister Devki weighed just over half of what she should have. Devki’s condition was the result of severe malnutrition. Both babies showed such varied weight and health that doctors suspected less food was given to Devki, a common occurrence in some areas of India where boys are often given more attention than girls.

According to a UNICEF report, half of the world’s undernourished children live in South Asia. In India, 30 per cent of children are born with low birth weight and almost 50 per cent remain underweight by the age of three. One of the Millennium Development Goals is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, which would mean halving the proportion of children who are underweight for their age. UNICEF has warned that the world is not on track to meet that goal.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Meena Comic Books and Videos

Meena is a cartoon character from South Asia, a spirited, nine-year-old girl who braves the world – whether in her efforts to go to school or in fighting the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS in her village. Meena is widely recognised and appreciated in most South Asian countries, and is a successful advocacy and teaching tool for girls’ and children’s rights. The Meena figure has achieved popularity as she tackles the key issues affecting children, and the threats to the rights of millions of girls in South Asia.

UNICEF developed the Meena Communication Initiative (MCI) and it was launched in September 1998 as a mass communication project aimed at changing perceptions and behaviour that hamper the survival, protection and development of girls in South Asia. The stories revolve around the adventures of Meena, her brother Raju, her pet parrot Mithu, and members of her family and village community, and cover issues such as education, health, gender equity, freedom from exploitation and abuse.

The Meena Communication Package consists of:

• Comic books

• Animated films

• Posters

• Discussion and teachers’ guides

• Radio series (produced in collaboration with BBC world service)

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021

Sara Communication Initiative

The Sara Communication Initiative was developed in 10 countries of Eastern and Southern Africa, with UNICEF assistance. Educating adolescent girls and their parents about the importance of staying in school is one of the main messages of this lively radio series. Other issues such as sexual harassment, HIV/AIDS, early marriage, genital mutilation and girls’ domestic workload, are skilfully woven into the entertaining plots about Sara and her friends. In addition to the radio series, the initiative has developed animated films, comic books, storybooks, audiocassettes, posters and guides.

The link on this page is for the comic books only.

Source: UNICEF

Date of Publication: September 30, 2021