Beyond partnerships with National Committees and the Global and Regional Programme , UNICEF occasionally contributes to results for children in HICs in other ways . For example , some children in HICs benefited when their governments learned from UNICEF innovations originally developed in programme countries , such as the adaptation of the RapidFTR ( rapid family tracing and reunification ) open-source mobile phone application and data storage system by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the United States of America , building on technology first used by UNICEF to support Congolese refugees in the Great Lakes region of Africa .