![]() UNICEF also engages with adolescents to ensure they are reached with services in the areas of health, nutrition, HIV and AIDS. This is particularly critical for girls and young women, for children who are the most vulnerable, marginalized or hard to reach, and during times of humanitarian crisis. These same children have a chance to thrive in situations where they have access to nutritious foods quality water, sanitation, and hygiene are stimulated and cared for at home and in their community and enjoy an early childhood education that gives them opportunities to learn and grow. This report summarizes how UNICEF and its partners contributed to Goal Area 1 in 2019 and reviews the impact of these accomplishments on children and the communities where they live.īoth girls and boys have the ability to survive in their communities if a number of critical, quality services are available to them throughout their lives. And while this strong performance is encouraging, the impact and outcome-level progress across the Goal Area is currently too slow to achieve the SDGs. Goal Area 1, which contributes to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2, 3, 4, and 5 reported output level progress of over 90 per cent for all of its nine result areas. ![]() In UNICEF’s Strategic Plan (2018-2021), Goal Area 1 works across four interconnected sectors to address the structural challenges impeding children’s right to survive and thrive: health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and early childhood development. ![]() This is the focus of Goal Area 1 ensuring that every child has the right to life, survival and development, and to grow up healthy and strong. That promise, crafted by global leaders and enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) articulates every child’s right to survive and thrive. Thirty years ago, a promise was made to the world’s children. ![]()
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