UNICEF made good progress towards Strategic Plan 2018-2021 Goal Area 4 targets in 2020. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services were maintained and expanded for millions of children and their families. Support was provided for child-centred disaster risk reduction and disaster recovery efforts, and UNICEF worked with partners to foster…

Water shortages are a major risk in urban areas – including secondary towns and cities – around the world. This Guidance Note was created in response to that risk and describes the implications on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming for UNICEF staff and partners, with suggested interventions. It highlights the dynamic threat of urban…

UNICEF works to safeguard the right of all children to a safe and clean environment both in times of stability and crisis. Under Goal Area 4 of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2018–2021, programming is grouped under five output areas: water supply, sanitation, disaster risk reduction, children in urban settings and environmental sustainability. In each…

The world is rapidly urbanising, swelling impoverished urban settlement populations – exacerbating exclusion and inequality in access to WASH services for the poorest and most marginalised children and their families. As of 2018 an estimated 4.2 billion people, or 55 per cent of the global population, were living in urban areas. A third of them…, sector-level, ,, service-level, and, user-level, support, with suggested entry points and activities for engagement in urban WASH. The Framework also considers three different urban contexts: urban slums, small towns and urban areas in humanitarian and protracted crisis settings, focusing on areas where UNICEF can add value, in line with the organisation’s equity agenda., Options Available options Summary English French Spanish Arabic Download file (PDF, 152,78 KB) (PDF, 5,86 MB) (PDF, 5,72 MB) (PDF, 5,91 MB) (PDF, 3,07 MB)

《推动儿童友好的城市化》是一本关于儿童友好型城市规划的手册，它提出了城市规划应首先关注儿童需要的相关概念、依据和技术策略。 本手册以儿童为重点，就城市规划应该在实现可持续发展目标中发挥的核心作用提供了指导，即从全球到地方，通过创建繁荣和公平的城市，让儿童生活在健康、安全、包容、绿色和繁荣的社区中。 如需了解更多信息，敬请联系： urban@unicef.org Options Available options 中文 英文 Download file (PDF, 26,68 MB) (PDF, 10,44 MB) October 2018

The challenge for children and young people of growing up urban

At a time when the global urban population is expanding by 220,000 inhabitants every day – or some 80 million per year – this report supports the scale-up of urban programming for children to foster equitable and sustainable development. The report notes that an estimated 1 billion people now live in urban slums, and hundreds of millions of them…

This publication calls all urban stakeholders to invest in child-responsive urban planning, recognizing that cities are not only drivers of prosperity, but also of inequity. Through 10 Children’s Rights and Urban Planning principles, the handbook presents concepts, evidence, tools and promising practices to create thriving and equitable cities…