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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"UNICEF"”.
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UNICEF Kid Power: Empowering Kids to Get Active and Save Lives
<p>UNICEF Kid Power is a program aimed at increasing U.S. children’s activity levels by tapping into children’s intrinsic desire to do good. Through their activity levels, kids earn points, which unlocks funding from partners that will support treatment for a malnourished child. This one-of-a-kind …
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UNICEF infant and young child feeding training in Zimbabwe : analysis and recommendations
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND: UNICEF introduced a community infant and young child feeding (cIYCF) training and counselling package in 2010, which was implemented in Zimbabwe for community counsellors (CCs) in rural districts. The training package is generic for programming and capacity development on …
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MoEAC and UNICEF Education Public-Private Partnership in Namibia: The challenge of high drop out
… were respectively adopted. The activities of UNICEF, as a vital MoEAC partner on dropout, determined its selection for the data collection site. Participants (Executive-director level) were selected through a purposive sampling technique and semi-structured interview data was collected and …
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Visual and textual representations of childhood by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 1999 to 2003
The objective of this paper is to investigate how UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) represents the notion of childhood. A content analysis of 690 photographs as well as an in-depth textual analysis of the most authoritative publications is conducted to decode childhood representations. …
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Psychosocial interventions in emergencies: theoretical models and their ethical and political implications in the Venezuelan context. The case of UNICEF.
… the models of psychosocial processes structuring UNICEF’s psychosocial intervention after the emergency caused by the floods in Venezuela during 1999, and some of their political and ethical implications. I discuss how UNICEF’s intervention in the shelter of Fuerte Tiuna, in Caracas, provides a …
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Achieving gender equity through UNICEF intervention- the Sara Communication Initiative (SCI) : an examination of social capital and capabilities in two selected Malawian rural schools
… and high dropout from school. NORAD and UNICEF initially funded the SCI. FAWEMA is currently the custodian of the SCI in Malawi. The purpose of this study was to determine stakeholder perceptions of the extent to which the social capital and capabilities of girls had been enhanced through …
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Barriers, challenges and facilitators of implementing the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) in a maternity organisation: a qualitative study of the experiences of maternity staff
… facilitators to successfully implementing the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) in a maternity organisation: a qualitative study of the experiences of maternity staff. Background: Breastfeeding is widely recognised for its health benefits for both infants and mothers, however it faces …
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Status of household water treatment and safe storage in 45 countries and a case study in Northern India
… Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) groups of 45 UNICEF country offices. The second aspect of this study analyzes the user perceptions and behaviors relative to HWTS and quality of water at the point of consumption, post HWTS treatment in the field. This was executed by conducting 240 sanitary …
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Investigation of I-WASH's community-led total sanitation and alternative decentralized sanitation models in rural Ghana
… to meet the sanitation target by 2015 (WHO, UNICEF, 2012). UNICEF, in partnership with the European Union, developed the I-WASH program to assist in eradicating guinea worm throughout nine endemic districts of rural Ghana between 2007 and 2011. Their proposal included a significant sanitation …
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Converging intentions, diverging realities : rights vs. growth-based approaches to safe sanitation provision in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… According to a progress report by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program, in 2015, 844 million people lacked even the most basic access to safe drinking water (WHO/UNICEF, 2017). The case for sanitation is even more dire, as about 2.3 billion people have no access to the most basic …
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Monitoring and evaluation of household water treatment and safe storage technologies : the sustained use of the KOSIM ceramic water filter in northern region Ghana
… access to an improved drinking water (WHO and UNICEF, 2008). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), contaminated water and poor sanitation cause 30,000 deaths worldwide each day (WHO and UNICEF, 2008). Household drinking water and safe storage (HWTS), is a new health intervention …
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Patterns of breast-feeding practice in Semarang, Indonesia: comparison between women in peri-urban area and urban area
… are prevalent amongst Indonesian women. UNICEF (2000) showed that an estimated 450 women in Indonesia die every 45 minutes because of complications during delivery, late referral to hospital or maternity services and poor treatment, as a result of poorly trained health staff, including …
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Infant Feeding Practices of HIV positive Mothers in Lusaka District
… of infants are not fed in compliance with WHO/UNICEF recommendation. The recommendation calls for a period of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and introduction of complementary foods between six and nine months while continuing with breastfeeding up to two years. Only 40% of infants less …
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Infant Feeding Practices of HIV positive Mothers in Lusaka District
… of infants are not fed in compliance with WHO/UNICEF recommendation. The recommendation calls for a period of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and introduction of complementary foods between six and nine months while continuing with breastfeeding up to two years. Only 40% of infants less …
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Documentation of the Use of Art Therapy in Croatia and Bosnia
… implemented by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), in schools, libraries, and refugee camps, in addition to front line combat areas.</p>
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A case for public sanitation with on-site treatment in Ghana
According to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), 14% of the population in Ghana use improved sanitation facilities and 59% use shared facilities. The objective of this thesis is to offer a situational analysis of public sanitation in Ghana by addressing both access to sanitation and …
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Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Monitoring and Evaluation Protocol for a Malnutrition Rehabilitation Program in a Resource-Limited Setting
… prevalence of communicable diseases. In Peru, UNICEF has estimated the prevalence of malnutrition in children less than 5 years old at 18% in urban areas, and up to 33% in rural regions of the country. El Comedor is a community-based kitchen established in the impoverished neighborhood of …
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Educação infantil, políticas públicas e organismos multilaterais.
… as possíveis influências do Banco Mundial e do UNICEF na Educação Infantil brasileira foi feita uma análise da atuação desses órgãos na Educação Infantil do Brasil. Este estudo se caracteriza como uma pesquisa bibliográfica e teve como principal conclusão a constatação de que as orientações e …
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Understanding the background of the political and social movements supporting the United Nations
… how civil movements supporting UNESCO and UNICEF have worked their way through Japanese society, traditional social behaviours and customs to diffuse the norm. The success of the civil movements has not been in spite of Japan’s weak civil society but because its characteristics have worked …
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Categorisation of sexual reproductive health short messages texts into thematic areas using text mining (a case study for the Zambia u-report).
… National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council supported by UNICEF. Millions of messages have been exchanged, but categorizing them manually to see what topics adolescents frequently ask about is challenging. This research explored using computers, to automatically classify these messages into different …
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