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Building Bright Futures: What is needed to expand early childhood education and care for Ukraine's refugee children

Nine out of every 10 refugees arriving in host countries from Ukraine are women and children. Only 1 in 3 of Ukrainian refugee children are enrolled in early childhood education and care services. This emphasizes the need for expanding and strengthening early childhood education systems to ensure sufficient access for all children, and the integration of Ukranian refugee children in the host-community. These briefs offer recommendations for policymakers on ways to expand services, and how to facilitate the integration of refugee children and their families. Strategies include limiting the barriers that may hinder refugee children's access to ECEC settings, capitalizing existing physical and human resources to address gaps in service delivery, in addition to the inclusion of refugees in national and sub-national plans, data systems and financing, adapting policies and programmes to ensure considerations are made for refugee children.

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Children at Risk in Central and Eastern Europe: Perils and Promises

Regional Monitoring Report

Children at Risk in Central and Eastern Europe: Perils and Promises

Published: 1997 Regional Monitoring Report

This Report looks at the changes in risks facing the 100 million children in the 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Eight types of risk are considered in turn: poverty; war and dislocation; environmental degradation; health and health service deterioration; changes in family formation including rising family-breakdown rates; falling access to education and rising truancy; youth lifestyle and health including an increase in drug abuse and the occurrence of sexually transmitted diseases; juvenile crime. The Report also indicates that institutional care, fostering and adoption remain in need of sweeping reform, examines the failure of substitute care and emphasizes the preventive role of family support policies.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 180 | Thematic area: Countries in Transition | Tags: child poverty, children at risk, children in armed conflicts, children in especially difficult circumstances, economic and social conditions, economic transition, public policy, standard of living | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Children and Families of Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants and Indigenous Peoples: Global Seminar Report, 1995

Innocenti Global Seminar

Children and Families of Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants and Indigenous Peoples: Global Seminar Report, 1995

AUTHOR(S)
Maggie Black

Published: 1997 Innocenti Global Seminar

The seventh Innocenti Global Seminar, held in Florence in October 1996, brought together participants with a wide range of experiences and perspectives to discuss discrimination against ethnic minorities, immigrants and indigenous peoples and to suggest how their needs can be better accommodated in programming and advocacy. The Report emphasizes participation, education and empowerment and calls for systematic attention to be paid to minority populations in all situation analyses. While it recognizes that the political climate in many countries can make advocacy on behalf of minority groups difficult, it also stresses that the near-universal ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child brings with it an obligation to speak out for the rights of all children, and particularly the most disadvantaged.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 56 | Thematic area: Minorities | Tags: children in especially difficult circumstances, minority children, rights of minority children | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Bambini e famiglie appartenenti a minoranze etniche, gruppi immigrati e popolazioni indigene: sintesi dei lavori

Innocenti Global Seminar

Bambini e famiglie appartenenti a minoranze etniche, gruppi immigrati e popolazioni indigene: sintesi dei lavori

AUTHOR(S)
Maggie Black

Published: 1997 Innocenti Global Seminar

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 64 | Thematic area: Minorities | Tags: children in especially difficult circumstances, minority children | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Enfants au risque en Europe centrale et orientale: périls et promesses - résumé

Regional Monitoring Report

Enfants au risque en Europe centrale et orientale: périls et promesses - résumé

Published: 1997 Regional Monitoring Report

Le rapport prend en considération un éventail d'indicateurs non économiques parmi lesquels diverses mesures de transformations démographiques, telles que les tendances de la mortalité, de la fécondité, du mariage et du divorce. Ces changements peuvent présenter de l'intérêt par eux-mêmes, mais aussi être un indicateur de tendances économiques et sociales sous-jacentes difficiles à mesurer directement.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 32 | Thematic area: Countries in Transition | Tags: child poverty, children at risk, children in armed conflicts, children in especially difficult circumstances, economic and social conditions, economic transition, public policy, standard of living | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Bambini a rischio in Europa centrale ed orientale: pericoli e prospettive - sintesi

Regional Monitoring Report

Bambini a rischio in Europa centrale ed orientale: pericoli e prospettive - sintesi

Published: 1997 Regional Monitoring Report

Questa pubblicazione è una sintesi del quarto Regional Monitoring Report che copre 18 paesi dell'Europa Centrale ed Orientale e dell'ex Unione Sovietica. Il quarto rapporto contiene: un aggiornamento sui cambiamenti nelle condizioni di vita delle famiglie e dell'infanzia; un indagine sui fattori di rischio per l'infanzia durante la transizione; un'analisi speciale sui bambini affidati alle cure pubbliche.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 22 | Thematic area: Countries in Transition | Tags: child poverty, children at risk, children in armed conflicts, children in especially difficult circumstances, economic and social conditions, economic transition, institutionalized children, public policy, standard of living | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Children at Risk in Central and Eastern Europe: Perils and Promises - a Summary

Regional Monitoring Report

Children at Risk in Central and Eastern Europe: Perils and Promises - a Summary

Published: 1997 Regional Monitoring Report

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 22 | Thematic area: Countries in Transition | Tags: child poverty, children at risk, children in armed conflicts, children in especially difficult circumstances, economic and social conditions, economic transition, public policy, standard of living | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Regional Monitoring Report

Children at Risk in Central and Eastern Europe: Perils and Promises (Russian version)

Published: 1997 Regional Monitoring Report

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 172 | Thematic area: Countries in Transition | Tags: child poverty, children at risk, children in armed conflicts, children in especially difficult circumstances, economic and social conditions, economic transition, public policy, standard of living | Publisher: ICDC

Innocenti Insights

Deprivation and Discrimination

AUTHOR(S)
Paolo Basurto

Published: 1995 Innocenti Insights

The children of an ethnic group, race or religious denomination represent its continuity - they embody a potential for future diversity. This has resulted throughout history in their extreme vulnerability in times of conflict among or involving such groups: they are perceived as the enemies of the future and made prime targets of genocide. Children are also the main victims of less obvious manifestations of ‘everyday’, peacetime discrimination, as infant mortality, infant morbidity and educational attainment data from every part of the world has shown. To investigate ways in which to address these issues, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre organised a meeting on ‘Discrimination Against Children of Minority Groups and Indigenous Peoples’ in 1994. This publication brings together abridged versions of its main discussion papers.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 104 | Thematic area: Minorities | Tags: children in especially difficult circumstances, discrimination, minority children, minority groups, rights of indigenous children, rights of minority children | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Innocenti Publications

Urban Children in Distress: Global predicaments and innovative strategies

AUTHOR(S)
Cristina S. Blanc

Published: 1994 Innocenti Publications

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 482 | Thematic area: Urban Child | Tags: child poverty, children in especially difficult circumstances, urban children | Publisher: Gordon and Breach, USA; UNICEF ICDC, Florence

India: The forgotten children of the cities

Innocenti Studies

India: The forgotten children of the cities

AUTHOR(S)
Amrita Chatterjee

Published: 1992 Innocenti Studies

In India, as in other countries, the rise in the number of street and working children is associated with the phenomenon of rapid urban growth, especially of sprawling slums and shanty towns. The predicament of the urban child "in difficult circumstances" is inextricable from these conditions of urban poverty in which he and she is brought up. The first point of any enquiry into childhood in India's slums and squatter settlements, therefore, has to be the entire living context of poor urban children: physical, environmental, socio-economic, and familial. Unless the child's family is made the target of understanding and improvement, there is not likely to be sustained amelioration of the children's current plight or future prospects.

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 48 | Thematic area: Urban Child | Tags: abandoned children, children in especially difficult circumstances, street children, urban children | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

Urban Children in Distress: An introduction to the issues

Innocenti Occasional Papers, Urban Child Series

Urban Children in Distress: An introduction to the issues

AUTHOR(S)
Cristina S. Blanc

Published: 1992 Innocenti Occasional Papers, Urban Child Series

Cite this publication | No. of pages: 72 | Thematic area: Urban Child | Tags: child poverty, children in especially difficult circumstances, urban children | Publisher: UNICEF ICDC, Florence

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Prospects for Children in the Polycrisis: A 2023 Global Outlook

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Prospects for Children in the Polycrisis: A 2023 Global Outlook

This report outlines the polycrisis in which the world finds itself — multiple, simultaneous shocks with strong interdependencies, intensified in an ever-more integrated world — along with eight trends that will shape child rights and well-being in the coming year.

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Data Must Speak: Comprendre les facteurs de performance des écoles togolaises

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Data Must Speak: Comprendre les facteurs de performance des écoles togolaises

Le gouvernement togolais, à travers le plan sectoriel de l'éducation (PSE) 2014-2025, vise à atteindre une éducation primaire universelle de qualité. A travers cet objectif, le gouvernement reconnaît les défis actuels en liaison avec l'accès et la participation à l’éducation primaire, ainsi que dans la rétention de tous les écoliers Togolais. Mieux comprendre les performances des écoles fait partie des actions nécessaires pour relever ces défis.

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Inclusion Matters: Inclusive Interventions for Children with Disabilities – An evidence and gap map from low- and middle-income countries

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Inclusion Matters: Inclusive Interventions for Children with Disabilities – An evidence and gap map from low- and middle-income countries

In this publication we report our Evidence and Gap Mapping (EGM) of “Inclusive Interventions for Children with Disabilities in LMICs”. It shows that research is lacking in many critical areas: awareness and non-discrimination, protection, adequate standard of living, family and community life, and empowerment – that represent critical areas of policy and programming in need of robust evidence to improve inclusion and participation. Specific areas overlooked include tackling harmful stereotypes, tackling abuse and violence and ways to reduce stigma; on improving accessibility to water, sanitation, hygiene, housing and food; and interventions that aim for children with disabilities to enjoy their right to be heard, to play and to have their views considered in all matters affecting them. Health research covers 3 in 4 of all studies in our EGM, but there is little evidence on improving access to general health services and accessibility for children with disabilities in healthcare settings. Inclusive education was moderately represented, but lacked the detail to understand how it was implemented or if inclusive education was effective in improving (or harming) academic outcomes, school readiness, graduation rates or the quality of educational services. The companion protocol for the EGM can be found at this link Please also see our EGM on Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Interventions

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Children's Views about their Environments

A collection of artworks created by children and young people from Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Italy, and New Zealand on key environmental issues highlighted in the Innocenti Report Card 17 'Places and Spaces: Environments and children's well-being'. In each country participating in this project, small groups of children and adolescents discussed how global environmental challenges affect their daily lives. Based on their discussions, children engaged in creative activities: they made videos, drew or wrote stories, took photos, and wrote or recorded audio captions for their artwork.

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Unlocking Learning: The use of digital learning to support the education and inclusion of refugees and migrant children in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Unlocking Learning: The use of digital learning to support the education and inclusion of refugees and migrant children in Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the number of refugees and migrants arriving in the country has increased from just a few dozen arrivals annually prior to 2017 to 95,000 between 2018 and 2022. This increase has put incredible strain on the country’s education systems.

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Building Bright Futures: What is needed to expand early childhood education and care for Ukraine's refugee children

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Children at Risk in Central and Eastern Europe: Perils and Promises

Children and Families of Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants and Indigenous Peoples: Global Seminar Report, 1995

Bambini e famiglie appartenenti a minoranze etniche, gruppi immigrati e popolazioni indigene: sintesi dei lavori

Enfants au risque en Europe centrale et orientale: périls et promesses - résumé

Bambini a rischio in Europa centrale ed orientale: pericoli e prospettive - sintesi

Children at Risk in Central and Eastern Europe: Perils and Promises - a Summary

Children at Risk in Central and Eastern Europe: Perils and Promises (Russian version)

Deprivation and Discrimination

Urban Children in Distress: Global predicaments and innovative strategies

India: The forgotten children of the cities

Urban Children in Distress: An introduction to the issues

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