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Climate change and lack of sanitation threaten water safety for millions: UNICEF
#ClimateChain Instagram campaign will highlight water and the environment Harko, 12, walks across the land with her younger brother. She is no longer going to school as is forced to go in search of...
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In drought-stricken regions, children search for water and a lifeline for...
In drought-stricken regions of SNNPR, children travel for hours to collect water for household needs ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Ayene HALABA SPECIAL WOREDA & MAREKO WOREDA, SNNPR, 22 March 2016 – In the...
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Major international workshop on social protection in Africa
Addis Ababa meeting aims to expand impact of government-led cash transfer programmes A silent revolution has been taking place in Africa, with governments expanding investment in social protection and...
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Humanitarian partners launch campaign to address funding gaps in Ethiopia...
(Addis Ababa, 23 March 2016): Humanitarian partners today launched a 90-day campaign to raise awareness on the urgent need for an additional funding for the drought crisis in Ethiopia to address the...
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Leadership matters: The case of CLTSH
By Araya Mengistu Ethiopia is a country showing strong progress in achieving global and national goals for WASH services. It has achieved the MDG target 7c for water supply. Although still behind for...
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Ireland and UNICEF respond to Ethiopia’s drought emergency
L-R) UNICEF Representative to Ethiopia, Ms. Gillian Mellsop and the Ambassador of Ireland to Ethiopia, H.E. Mr. Aidan O’Hara, holding jerry cans that are part of a donation consisting of water bladders...
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Reuniting Ethiopia’s children with their families after migration horrors
By Paul Schemm Ahmad, 17, demonstrates how traffickers in Yemen held him for ransom. A joint project between UNICEF, the International Organization of Migration and the Ethiopian Government, the...
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UNICEF’s largest global purchase of Therapeutic Food for children in...
A mother feeds a her malnourished child a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a high protein and high energy peanut-based paste, in Arsi zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, after two years of...
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Germany announces 10 million euro support for the drought response in Ethiopia
Mr Thomas Silberhorn, Deputy Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) announces a 10-million-euro contribution to save the lives and protect livelihoods of vulnerable households...
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EU’s Satellite images provide life saving water to drought affected...
By Samuel Godfrey An ongoing UNICEF supported borehole drill in Musle Kebele of Kore Woreda. The borehole drilling site was identified through combined remote sensing technology with conventional...
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Laws to protect breastfeeding inadequate in most countries
Mundene, 21, breastfeeds her two-month-old baby Melesech at the Gedebe Health Post in Halaba Special Woreda (district) in SNNP Region. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Ayene GENEVA/NEW YORK/ADDIS ABABA, 9 May...
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Water trucking brings relief to remote communities and helps revive local...
By Paul Schemm Ababa Abraha had to leave school to work when her family ran out of food amid a severe drought. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Hema Balasundaram When the drought came to the remote kebele...
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Ethiopia Showcases Best Practices in Drought Response at WHS Side Event
Hawa Girash a mother of two accompanied by her children walks in to temporary emergency rub hall tent ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Tesfaye (Addis Ababa and Istanbul 23 May 2016): Mr. Demeke Mekonnen...
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Baby WASH – the missing piece of the puzzle?
By Samuel Godfrey Mustapha and his one year old daughter Meia at Teza Wota Health Center ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2012/Getachew The January 2016 Huffington Post article entitled Why are Indian kids smaller...
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The power of education for building peace in Africa
ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI/DAKAR, 1st JUNE 2016 – Ensuring equitable access to education is key in addressing the root causes of conflict and instability in Africa, stakeholders said today ahead of the...
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Children need peace for education, and education for peace
By Wossen Mulatu “We need peace. If there is conflict, I cannot follow my education properly and there will be no development,” Nyamat. Her five year old younger sister and brother are abducted to a...
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Striving for equitable health care for children in Ethiopia
By James Jeffrey Health Economics and Financing participants during a group discussion. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Ayene A first-of-its-kind course gave UNICEF’s Ethiopia office Health Programme staff a...
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Saving a child too thin to be vaccinated
By Bethlehem Kiros AMHARA REGION, Ethiopia, February 2016 – Moyanesh Almerew, a Health Extension Worker in Arara Kidanemeheret Kebele (sub-district) in Amhara Region can testify to how bad the current...
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African youth to African leaders: “You must do more to end conflicts in Africa”
Nyabon Guin, 3 is happy that she is back and reunified with her family in Gambella, Ethiopia after being abducted by armed men from the neighbouring South Sudan © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Mersha GAMBELLA,...
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Children do not start wars… We know that
By Sacha Westerbeek The theme for this year’s Day of the African Child – Conflict & Crisis: Protecting Children’s Rights – is a pertinent one. South Sudan refugee children play at a child –...
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