UNICEF - Wikipedia UNICEF United Nations Children 's Fund Abbreviation UNICEF Established 11 December 1946 Type Fund Legal status Active Headquarters New York City, Geneva Executive Director Anthony Lake Parent organization United Nations Affiliations United Nations Revenue $5,009,557,471 Website www.unicef.org The United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF / ˈjuːnɪsɛf / ) is a United Nations ( UN ) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group. The United Nations International Children 's Emergency Fund was created by the United Nations General Assembly on the 11th of December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. The Polish physician Ludwik Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder of UNICEF and served as its first chairman from 1946. On Rajchman 's suggestion, the American Maurice Pate was appointed its first executive director, serving from 1947 until his death in 1965. In 1950, UNICEF 's mandate was extended to address the long - term needs of children and women in developing countries everywhere. In 1953 it became a permanent part of the United Nations System, and the words `` international '' and `` emergency '' were dropped from the organization 's name, making it simply the United Nations Children 's Fund, retaining the original acronym, `` UNICEF ''. UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors, UNICEF 's total income for 2015 was US $5,009,557,471. Governments contribute two - thirds of the organization 's resources. Private groups and individuals contribute the rest through national committees. It is estimated that 92 per cent of UNICEF revenue is distributed to program services. UNICEF 's programs emphasize developing community - level services to promote the health and well - being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006. Most of UNICEF 's work is in the field, with staff in over 190 countries and territories. More than 200 country offices carry out UNICEF 's mission through programs developed with host governments. Seven regional offices provide technical assistance to country offices as needed. UNICEF 's Supply Division is based in Copenhagen and serves as the primary point of distribution for such essential items as vaccines, antiretroviral medicines for children and mothers with HIV, nutritional supplements, emergency shelters, family reunification, and educational supplies. A 36 - member executive board establishes policies, approves programs and oversees administrative and financial plans. The executive board is made up of government representatives who are elected by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, usually for three - year terms. Contents 1 Governance 2 UNICEF national committees 3 Promotion and fundraising 4 Sponsorship 4.1 UNICEF Kid Power 4.2 Trick - or - Treat UNICEF box 4.3 Cartoons for Children 's Rights 4.4 Corporate partnership 4.5 Corporate Social Responsibility 4.6 Girl Star 5 Celebrity ambassadors 6 Facilities 6.1 UNICEF World Warehouse 6.2 UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre 7 Controversies 7.1 Adoption program 7.2 Infant mortality 7.3 NSA surveillance 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Governance Each country office ( 190 countries ) carries out UNICEF 's mission through a unique program of cooperation developed with the host government. This five - year program focuses on practical ways to realize the rights of children and women. Regional offices guide this work and provide technical assistance to country offices as needed. Overall management and administration of the organization takes place at headquarters, where global policy on children is shaped. Guiding and monitoring all of UNICEF 's work is a 36 - member Executive Board made up of government representatives. They establish policies, approve programs and decide on administrative and financial plans and budgets. Executive Board 's work is coordinated by the Bureau, comprising the President and four Vice-Presidents ( Total 5 ), each officer representing one of the five regional groups. These five officers, each one representing one of the five regional groups, are elected by the Executive Board each year from among its members, with the presidency rotating among the regional groups on an annual basis. As a matter of custom, permanent members of the Security Council do not serve as officers of the Executive Board. Office of the Secretary of the Executive Board supports and services the Executive Board. It is responsible for maintaining an effective relationship between the Executive Board and the UNICEF secretariat, and helps to organize the field visits of the Executive Board. UNICEF School in a box contains basic educational items for one teacher and 40 students UNICEF national committees See also : List of UNICEF National Committees There are national committees in 34 ( industrialized ) countries, each established as an independent local non-governmental organization. The national committees raise funds from the private sector. UNICEF is funded entirely by voluntary contributions, and the National Committees collectively raise around one - third of UNICEF 's annual income. This comes through contributions from corporations, civil society organizations around six million individual donors worldwide. Promotion and fundraising In the United States, Canada and some other countries, UNICEF is known for its `` Trick - Or - Treat for UNICEF '' program in which children collect money for UNICEF from the houses they trick - or - treat on Halloween night, sometimes instead of candy. UNICEF is present in 191 countries and territories around the world, but not involved in nine others ( Bahamas, Brunei, Cyprus, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, and Singapore ). Many people in developed countries first hear about UNICEF 's work through the activities of one of the 36 National Committees for UNICEF. These non-governmental organizations ( NGO ) are primarily responsible for fundraising, selling UNICEF greeting cards and products, creating private and public partnerships, advocating for children 's rights, and providing other support. The US Fund for UNICEF is the oldest of the national committees, founded in 1947. On 19 April 2007, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg was appointed UNICEF Eminent Advocate for Children, in which role she has visited Brazil ( 2007 ), China ( 2008 ), and Burundi ( 2009 ). In 2009, the British retailer Tesco used `` Change for Good '' as advertising, which is trademarked by UNICEF for charity usage but not for commercial or retail use. This prompted the agency to say, `` it is the first time in Unicef 's history that a commercial entity has purposely set out to capitalise on one of our campaigns and subsequently damage an income stream which several of our programs for children are dependent on ''. They went on to call on the public `` who have children 's welfare at heart, to consider carefully who they support when making consumer choices ''. Sponsorship Lionel Messi who is wearing a Barcelona shirt showing the UNICEF logo On 7 September 2006, an agreement between UNICEF and the Spanish Catalan association football club FC Barcelona was reached whereby the club would donate 1.5 million Euros per year to the organization for five years. As part of the agreement, FC Barcelona would wear the UNICEF logo on the front of their uniforms. This was the first time a football club sponsored an organization rather than the other way around. It was also the first time in FC Barcelona 's history that they have had another organization 's name across the front of their uniform. In January 2007 UNICEF struck a partnership with Canada 's national tent pegging team. The team was officially re-flagged as `` UNICEF Team Canada '', its riders wear UNICEF 's logo in competition, and team members promote and raise funds for UNICEF 's campaign against childhood HIV - AIDS. When the team became the 2008 tent pegging world champions, UNICEF 's flag was raised alongside the Canadian flag at the games, the first time in the history of international Grand Prix equestrian competition that a non-state flag has flown over the medal podium. The Swedish club Hammarby IF followed the Spanish and Canadian lead on 14 April 2007, also raising funds for UNICEF and displaying the UNICEF name on their sportswear. The Danish football club Brøndby IF participated in a similar arrangement from 2008 to 2013. Australian A-League club Sydney FC announced they would also enter into a partnership with UNICEF raising funds for children in the Asia - Pacific region, and would also display the UNICEF logo for the remainder of the 2011 - 12 A-League season. Race driver Jacques Villeneuve has occasionally placed the UNICEF logo on the # 27 Bill Davis Racing pickup truck in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. In Botswana, UNICEF has funded the development of new state - of - the - art HIV / AIDS education for every schoolchild in Botswana from nonprofit organization TeachAIDS. UNICEF announced a landmark partnership with Scottish club Rangers F.C. UNICEF partnered with the Rangers Charity Foundation and pledged to raise £ 300,000 by 2011. In 2010, UNICEF created a partnership with Phi Iota Alpha, making them the first Greek Lettered Organization UNICEF has ever worked with. In 2011, Phi Iota Alpha raised over $20,000 for the Tap Project and the Trick or Treats for UNICEF Campaign. In 2013, they agreed a contract with Greek association football champions Olympiacos F.C. who will show the organization 's logo on the front of their shirts. UNICEF Kid Power Main article : UNICEF Kid Power Started in 2015, Kid Power is a division of UNICEF that was created as an effort to involve kids in helping other kids in need. UNICEF Kid Power developed the world 's first Wearable for Good, called Kid Power Bands, which is a kids ' fitness tracker bracelet that connects to a smartphone app. The app lets users complete missions, which counts total steps and awards points. The points then unlock funding from partners, which is then used by UNICEF to deliver lifesaving packets of therapeutic food to severely malnourished children around the world. Trick - or - Treat UNICEF box Main article : Trick - or - Treat for UNICEF Since 1950, when a group of children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, donated $17 which they received on Halloween to help post-World War II victims, the Trick - or - Treat UNICEF box has become a tradition in North America during the fall. These small orange boxes are handed to children at schools and other locations before 31 October. As of 2012, the Trick - or - Treat for UNICEF campaign has collected approximately CAD 91 million in Canada and over US $ 167 million in the U.S. Cartoons for children 's rights Main article : Cartoons for Children 's Rights In 1994, UNICEF held a summit encouraging animation studios around the world to create individual animated spots demonstrating the international rights of children. Cartoons for Children 's Rights is the collection of animated shorts based on UNICEF 's Convention on the Rights of the Child. Corporate partnership To raise money to support its Education and Literacy Programs, UNICEF collaborates with companies worldwide -- international as well as small - and medium - sized businesses. Since 2004, the organization has been supported by Montblanc, working collaboratively to help the world 's children getting better access to education. According to Vaccine News Daily, Merck & Co. partnered with UNICEF in June 2013 to decrease maternal mortality, HIV and tuberculosis prevalence in South Africa. Merck 's program `` Merck for Mothers '' will give US $500 million worldwide for programs that improve health for expectant mothers and their children. In May 2010, Crucell N.V. announced an additional US $110 million award from UNICEF to supply its pentavalent pediatric vaccine Quinvaxem to the developing world. Corporate Social Responsibility UNICEF works directly with companies to improve their business practices, bringing them in line with obligations under international law, and ensuring that they respect children 's rights in the realms of the marketplace, workplace, and the community. In 2012, UNICEF worked with Save the Children and The United Nations Global Compact to develop the Children 's Rights and Business Principles and now these guidelines form the basis UNICEF 's advice to companies. UNICEF works with companies seeking to improve their social sustainability by guiding them through a due diligence process where issues throughout their supply chain, such as child labor, can be identified and actions to ratify them are put in place. Girl Star The Girl Star project is a series of films which documents stories of girls from the most disadvantaged communities across five northern states in India who, through via education, have managed to break socio - economic constraints to make a success of their lives and become self - sufficient. These young women have grown to become role models in their communities, inspiring younger girls to go to school and continue their education. They have selected professions from the most conventional such as teaching and nursing, to the most unconventional like archery, bee - keeping, scrap management, often entering what has traditionally been a man 's domain. Girl Star is also one of UNICEF 's most known projects. Celebrity Ambassadors Main article : List of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors UNICEF Ambassadors are leaders in the entertainment industry, representing the fields of film, television, music, sports and beyond. They help raise awareness of the needs of children, and use their talent and fame to fund - raise, advocate, and educate on behalf of UNICEF. Facilities One of the gates to the old UNICEF World Warehouse The UNICEF research centre in Florence UNICEF world warehouse The old UNICEF World Warehouse is a large facility in Denmark, which hosts UNICEF deliverable goods as well as co-hosts emergency goods for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ( IFRC ). Until 2012 the facilities was a 25,000 m warehouse at Marmormolen in Copenhagen. With construction of a 45,000 m UN City that is to house all UN activities in Copenhagen under one roof, the warehouse service has been relocated to outer parts of the Freeport of Copenhagen. The facility houses the UNICEF Supply Division which manages strategic transport hubs in Dubai, Panama and Shanghai. The warehouse contains a variety of items, e.g., food supplements, water purification tablets, dietary and vitamin supplements, and the `` School in a box '' ( illustrated above ). UNICEF Innocenti research centre The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy, was established in 1988. The centre, formally known as the International Child Development Centres, has as its prime objectives to improve international understanding of issues relating to children 's rights, to promote economic policies that advance the cause of children, and to help facilitate the full implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in industrialized and developing countries. The program for 2006 -- 2008 was approved by UNICEF Executive Board in September 2005. This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( August 2015 ) It reaffirms the centre 's academic freedom and the focus of IRC 's research on knowledge gaps, emerging questions and sensitive issues which are relevant to the realization of children 's rights, in developing and industrialized countries. It capitalizes on IRC 's role as an interface between UNICEF field experience, international experts, research networks and policy makers and is designed to strengthen the centre 's institutional collaboration with regional academic and policy institutions, pursuing the following goals : Generation and communication of strategic and influential knowledge on issues affecting children and the realization of their rights ; Knowledge exchange and brokering ; Support to UNICEF 's advocacy, policy 's and program development in support of the Millennium Agenda Securing and strengthening the centre 's institutional and financial basis. Three interrelated strategies guide the achievement of these goals : Evidence - based analysis drawing on quantitative and qualitative information, the application of appropriate methodologies, and the development of recommendations to assess and inform advocacy and policy action. Enhanced partnerships with research and policy institutions and development actors, globally and at regional level, in developing and industrialized countries. Communication and leveraging of research findings and recommendations to support policy development and advocacy initiatives through strategic dissemination of studies and contribution to relevant events and fora. Controversies Adoption program UNICEF has a policy preferring orphanages only be used as temporary accommodation for children when there is no alternative. UNICEF has historically opposed the creation of large - scale, permanent orphanages for children, preferring instead to find children places in their ( extended ) families and communities, wherever possible. This has led UNICEF to be skeptical of international adoption efforts as a solution to child care problems in developing countries ; UNICEF has preferred to see children cared for in their birth countries rather than be adopted by foreign parents. Major news outlets such as US News have asserted UNICEF 's intervention when giving large cash payments to developing countries can lead to a cessation of international adoptions until all of its recommendations are in place, and have even labeled UNICEF a `` villain '' for the extent of its negative impact on orphans. Elizabeth Bartholet and Paulo Barrozo have written in this context, encouraging adoption protocols to take on a more child - centric viewpoint. Infant mortality One concern is that the child mortality rate has not decreased in some areas as rapidly as had been planned, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, where in 2013 `` the region still has the highest child mortality rate : 92 deaths per 1000 live births ''. and that `` Globally, nearly half of under - five deaths are attributable to undernutrition. 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Awards and achievements Preceded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1965 Succeeded by René Cassin 1968 Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize 1901 -- 1925 1901 Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy 1902 Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat 1903 Randal Cremer 1904 Institut de Droit International 1905 Bertha von Suttner 1906 Theodore Roosevelt 1907 Ernesto Moneta / Louis Renault 1908 Klas Arnoldson / Fredrik Bajer 1909 A.M.F. Beernaert / Paul Estournelles de Constant 1910 International Peace Bureau 1911 Tobias Asser / Alfred Fried 1912 Elihu Root 1913 Henri La Fontaine 1914 1915 1916 1917 International Committee of the Red Cross 1918 1919 Woodrow Wilson 1920 Léon Bourgeois 1921 Hjalmar Branting / Christian Lange 1922 Fridtjof Nansen 1923 1924 1925 Austen Chamberlain / Charles Dawes 1926 -- 1950 1926 Aristide Briand / Gustav Stresemann 1927 Ferdinand Buisson / Ludwig Quidde 1928 1929 Frank B. 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Question: what are the aims and objectives of unicef
Answer: humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries