UNICEF was established in 1946 to provide emergency relief to children affected by World War II. It has since evolved to focus on children's welfare globally by ensuring basic nutrition, health, education and advocating for children's rights. UNICEF is headquartered in New York and works in over 190 countries, supporting immunization programs, health services, education, and advocating for policies that protect children from exploitation. It was the first UN agency to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 in recognition of its efforts.

1. UNICEF
A short presentation
Prepared by :
Amarjeet Kaur Brar
TY Gen. LLB
Advocate Balasaheb Apte College of
Law
United Nations Children’s Fund

2. How it all
began?
 UNICEF was born by accident. New organisations were being
put in place after the World War-II , however, there was no
intention to create one dedicated solely to children.
 The winter of 1946-1947 was particularly hard, and children
were among those who suffered worst of all.
 It was a time when United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration (UNRRA) was about to cease its activities
(after the end of the second world war).
 A delegate from Poland, Ludwik Rajchman, a bacteriologist,
proposed that the UNRRA’s remaining funds be allocated to
the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
(UNICEF). It is due to this fundamental action that Ludwik
Rajchman is now considered to be the founder of UNICEF.

3. How it all
began?
 Founded on 11th December 1946 by a resolution passed by
United Nations General Assembly, UNICEF began with the
specific mission of providing emergency food and healthcare
to children in the countries that had been destroyed by World
War II.
 UNICEF initially stood for United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund (1946–53).
 It’s name was later changed to the United Nation’s Children
Fund, which reflected it’s broader mission, after being
officially adopted as a permanent branch of the UN in 1953.
 After 1950 the fund directed its efforts toward general
programs for the improvement of children’s welfare,
particularly in less-developed countries and in various
emergency situations.
• Establishment
• Transition
• Name Change

4. Motto of
UNICEF
Three fold mission
❖To ensure that basic nutrition, health, and educational needs of children are
met
❖To give children the opportunity to expand their potential
❖To create an international ethical standard of behavior toward children
The long run objectives of UNICEF as laid out in its Annual Report
for the year 2019 are as under :
 To keep children healthy and well nourished;
 To reach vulnerable children with water, sanitation and hygiene;
 To keep children learning;
 To support families to cover their needs and care for their children;
 To protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse, especially girls; and
 To protect refugee and migrant children, and those affected by conflict.

5. Headquarters,
Awards etc.
 Headquartered in New York, UNICEF has presence in more than
190 countries and territories today with more than 200 country
offices across the globe.
 UNICEF was the first organization ever to have been awarded
the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1965. Only individuals were granted
this award prior to this.
 In 2006, it was also awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias
award of Concord, one of Spain’s highest distinctions, in
recognition of our humanitarian work on behalf of children.

6.  Henrietta Fore became UNICEF’s seventh Executive Director
on 1 January 2018.
 She has worked to champion economic development,
education, health, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief
in a public service, private sector and non-profit leadership
career that spans more than four decades.
 From 2007 to 2009, Ms. Fore served as the Administrator of
the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and
Director of United States Foreign Assistance. The first woman
to serve in these roles, she was responsible for, including
support to peoples managing $39.5 billion of U.S. foreign
assistance annually and countries recovering from disaster
and building their futures economically, politically and
socially.

7. Structure &
Composition
UNICEF is run by an Executive
Board run by 36 member states
elected to three-year terms by the
Economic and Social Council, with
the following regional allocation:
• Africa (8 seats)
• Asia (7)
• Eastern Europe (4)
• LatinAmerica andCaribbean (5)
and
• Western Europe andOthers (12)

8. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
UNICEF has always concentrated its
efforts in areas in which relatively small
expenditures can have a significant
impact on the lives of the most
disadvantaged children, such as the
prevention and treatment of disease.
In keeping with this strategy, UNICEF
supports immunization programs for
childhood diseases and programs to
prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS; it also
provides funding for health services,
educational facilities, and other welfare
services.
1946
• Established by UNRRA for the children affected by WW-II
• Aids were distributed to all children without any discrimination
1947
• First private contribution received by UNICEF
• First UNICEF National Committee is established in the United States
• National Committee was a supportive network of independent charities that
raise funds to promote UNICEF’s work around the globe
1949
• Income generation from selling UNICEF greeting cards began for the first time
• This became one of the largest and most enduring fundraising activity of
UNICEF during the next 7 decades.
1953
• UNICEF is formally adopted by United Nations Organisation and the
words “International’ & ‘Emergency’ are dropped from its name
• Projects are initiated in areas pertaining to water, sanitation and hygiene
to reduce preventable childhood diseases and death
• Campaigns to eradicate yaws, leprosy and trachoma are highly effective.

9. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
1954
Beloved United States
entertainer Danny Kaye
becomes UNICEF’s
"Ambassador at Large".
1956
Between 1956 and 1957,
more than 13,000 maternal
and child welfare centres
receive UNICEF supplies
and technical training in 102
countries.

10. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
1957
UNICEF launches new
nutrition programmes.
Communities are trained in
vegetable gardening, fish
pond management, poultry
and livestock breeding, and
receive education about
nutrition.
1959
The United Nations
Declaration of the Rights of
the Child defines children’s
rights to protection,
education, healthcare,
shelter and good nutrition.

11. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
UNICEF has always concentrated its
efforts in areas in which relatively small
expenditures can have a significant
impact on the lives of the most
disadvantaged children, such as the
prevention and treatment of disease.
In keeping with this strategy, UNICEF
supports immunization programs for
childhood diseases and programs to
prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS; it also
provides funding for health services,
educational facilities, and other welfare
services.
1961
• Expansion of focus to include children’s education
• Aid for education programmes are launched globally and continue for
years to come
1964
• The Bellagio Conference (or The International Round Table on Children and
Youth in Development Planning) in Bellagio, Italy focuses on ways to link
children's well being to national development plans.
• After the conference, UNICEF pivots from being a relief fund to an international
development agency with technical expertise in all issues concerning children.
1965
• The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to UNICEF for the "promotion of
brotherhood among nations".
1967
• Amid much controversy, UNICEF aid for family planning is approved
• Family planning support is provided within the context of maternal and
child health

12. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
UNICEF has always concentrated its
efforts in areas in which relatively small
expenditures can have a significant
impact on the lives of the most
disadvantaged children, such as the
prevention and treatment of disease.
In keeping with this strategy, UNICEF
supports immunization programs for
childhood diseases and programs to
prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS; it also
provides funding for health services,
educational facilities, and other welfare
services.
1971
• The UNICEF Executive Board expands its aid work to include services
"benefiting children in urban slums and shantytowns," increasing the
organization’s reach and depth over the years
• United Nations agencies mobilize to provide shelter, food, sanitation
supplies and water to millions of refugees who fled to India from East
Pakistan, now known as Bangladesh

13. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
UNICEF has always concentrated its
efforts in areas in which relatively small
expenditures can have a significant
impact on the lives of the most
disadvantaged children, such as the
prevention and treatment of disease.
In keeping with this strategy, UNICEF
supports immunization programs for
childhood diseases and programs to
prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS; it also
provides funding for health services,
educational facilities, and other welfare
services.
1973
• UNICEF expands aid for non-formal education (outside regular schools),
particularly for rural children and youth.
1975
• The Mark II water pump is invented, transforming village life.
1978
• The Alma-Ata conference, jointly convened by WHO and UNICEF, focuses
world attention on primary healthcare and emphasizes community-
based approaches to family health as the keys to achieving an
acceptable level of health throughout the world.
1979
• Due to its non-political status, UNICEF is able
to lead the United Nations and Red Cross in
major relief and rehabilitation operations
across Kampuchea, now Cambodia.
• The United Nations declares 1979 as the
International Year of the Child to increase
awareness of the conditions facing the
world’s children and to spur action on
children’s rights.

14. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
1989
159 United Nations Member States adopt the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, the most universally approved human rights treaty for the
protection of children.
1990
The World Summit for Children, convened by UNICEF, brought together an
unprecedented number of heads of state to rally around the cause of
children and adopt the Declaration on the Survival, Protection and
Development of Children.
1998
UNICEF adopts a human rights-based approach to programming, placing
human rights principles at the centre of its work.
1999
UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) intervene to
deliver vaccines and other urgent health services for children in conflict.

15. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
2004
UNICEF and partners organize a rapid humanitarian response to a
devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
2005 to 2010
• UNICEF launches the “Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS” campaign
to mobilize resources and accelerate action for children vulnerable to
HIV and AIDS.
• As the world realized the scale of challenges children face, and
agreed to work toward a unified solution, UNICEF began to highlight
the impact of inequity on women and children.
2012
• In joining the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), UNICEF
commits to greater transparency in all its work, so that its methods
can be understood.
• UNICEF hosts the first Forum of the Global Partnership on Children
with Disabilities

16. Historical
Developments
Work Done
Evolution into
present form
2014
• UNICEF launches the first version of RapidPro – an open-source
platform for sharing real-time data across health, education and youth
engagement platforms.
• On February 11, 2014, India – where once there were 200,000 crippling
cases of polio a year – celebrates six years without a case of wild
poliovirus.
2015
• Mobile technology makes the distribution of medicine and supplies faster
and more accurate. This becomes especially important during the Ebola
crisis in West Africa.
2020 & Beyond
• UNICEF is addressing the challenge of providing information and services
that protect children and families from Corona virus, while also focusing
on the hidden effects of the disease, especially for already marginalized
children – those who live daily with poverty, violence, conflict or who are
refugees, migrants or internally displaced.
• UNICEF and the World Bank announced a $1 billion partnership to invest in
education and skills training for youth in support of Generation Unlimited,
which seeks to prepare the world’s youth for the future of work.

18. Sources :
• Slideshare - PPTs.
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/UNICEF
• https://borgenproject.org/the-history-of-unicef/
• https://www.unicef.org/about/execboard/index_42661.html
• https://www.unicef.org/media/unicef-executive-director-henrietta-h-fore
• https://www.humanium.org/en/ludwik-rajchman-the-founder-of-unicef/
• https://www.unicef.org/stories/learning-experience-19461979

19. Thankyou for your patience.