Syria 2023 - UNICEF Humanitarian Support  2022-2025 The proposed contribution aims to support United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) humanitarian programmes globally through the UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeals which are in line with the UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-2025 and the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) in Humanitarian Action. UNICEF’s humanitarian work is focused on interventions that saves lives, alleviates suffering, maintains human dignity and protects the rights of affected populations, wherever there are humanitarian needs due to e.g. armed conflicts, natural disasters, public health emergencies. UNICEF plays a central role in the global humanitarian response and leads the clusters of WASH and nutrition and co-leads the cluster of education. Within protection, it leads the child protection cluster. Children are not the only beneficiaries of UNICEF but also women and disabled persons, as examples. Within health, UNICEF e.g. more specifically works on Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). In February, a major amendment to the agreement was conducted to provide UNICEF with additional funds to be able to respond to the crisis in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s aggression. Sida funded UNICEF under previous contribution ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. Insatsen avser stöd till FN:s barnfond (UNICEF) i syfte att svara upp humanitärt. UNICEF:s arbete fokuserar på att rädda liv, minska lidande, bibehålla mänsklig värdighet och skydda rättigheter för befolkningen där det råder humanitära behov till exempel på grund av konflikt, naturkatastrofer eller hälsokriser. UNICEF spelar vidare en central roll i den humanitära responsen globalt och leder kluster inom WASH och nutrition samt leder tillsammans med Rädda Barnen utbildningsklustret. Inom skyddsklustret, leder UNICEF banskyddsklustret. Det är inte endast barn som är mottagare av humanitärt stöd utan också kvinnor och funktionshindrade individer. Inom hälsa arbetar UNICEF också t.ex. med reproduktiv, mödravård, nyfödda samt barnhälsa. Sida beviljade extra stöd till UNICEF i februari 2022 med anledning av Rysslands anfallskrig mot Ukraina. Sida har finansierat UNICEF under ”UNICEF Humanitarian Support 2018-2021”. The Strategy Plan 2022-2025 of UNICEF applies an approach that supports programming across the humanitarian-development nexus, where it systematically applies a humanitarian lens to the theories of change underlying work on all Goal Areas, cross-cutting programmes, change strategies and enablers, and reflects UNICEF humanitarian work throughout the plan itself and in the Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the SP 2021-2025. The result areas of the SP include:

Goal Area 1: Every child, including adolescents, survives and thrives with access to nutrition diets, quality primary health care, nurturing practices and essential supplies.

a. Strengthening primary health care and high-impact health interventions.

b. Immunization services as part of primary health care. 

c. Fast-track the end of HIV/AIDS.

d. Health and development in early childhood and adolescents.

e. Mental health and psychosocial well-being.

f.  Nutrition in early childhood.

g. Nutrition of adolescents and women.

h. Early detection and treatment of malnutrition.

Goal Area 2: Every child, including adolescents, learns and acquires skills for the future.

 a. Access to quality learning opportunities.

b. Learning, skills, participation and engagement.

Goal Area 3: Every child, including adolescents, is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices.

a. Protection from violence, abuse and exploitation.

b. Promotion of care, mental health and psychosocial well-being and justice.

c. Prevention of harmful practices.

Goal Area 4: Every child, including adolescents has access to safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and supplies, and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment.

a. Safe and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices.

b. Water, sanitation and hygiene systems and empowerment of communities.

c. Climate change, disaster risks and environmental degradation.

Goal Area 5: Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty.

a. Reducing child poverty.

b. Access to inclusive social protection.