For every child,

every opportunity
UNICEF Annual Report 2022
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COVER: Afghanistan: Children standing

outside a high-performance tent used by
UNICEF to meet various programmatic
emergency needs in education, health,
nutrition and child protection.

Afghanistan
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UNICEF Annual Report 2022

Contents

1: Goal Areas

2: Change Strategies
09
Goal Area 1 3: Financial Results
Every child survives 21
and thrives Change Strategies
03 26
Foreword 11 22 Financial Results, 2022
by Catherine Russell, Goal Area 2 Engaging with young
UNICEF Executive Every child learns people
Director
12 25
04 Goal Area 3 Delivering essential
Delivering for children Every child is protected supplies
in a year of polycrisis from violence and
exploitation
06
UNICEF’s top 10 14
achievements in 2022 Goal Area 4
Every child lives
in a safe and clean
environment

16
Goal Area 5
Every child has an
equitable chance in life

18
Humanitarian action

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Kostya, 7, shows his drawing of
Wolverine via live chat to Hugh
Jackman, who played Wolverine in
the X-men movies, at a UNICEF-
supported Blue Dot centre for
Ukrainian refugee children and their
families in Isaccea, Romania.

Romania, April 2022

© UNICEF/UN0625138/Holerga

Ten-year-old Shaziya drinks a cup of safe

drinking water delivered by UNICEF and
partners to her village, Muche Mulla Got,
in the district of Lasbela in Balochistan
Province, Pakistan.

Pakistan, August 2022

© UNICEF/UN0694845/Azam

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2022 2
Foreword

For children across the globe, 2022 was a year included expanding our support to communities
fraught with difficult challenges and intractable to develop and implement climate mitigation
crises. Millions suffered the consequences of and adaptation strategies. And we helped local
floods, storms and droughts linked to climate authorities transition to climate-resilient, solar-
change, struggled to access essential services powered electricity, water, and waste management
amidst violent conflict, or continued to feel the systems.
socio-economic impacts of the pandemic. These
were among the factors which led to a global This progress was made possible thanks to the
nutrition crisis, with 45 million children under 5 strength of our partnerships and record level
suffering from wasting worldwide. Over the course support from our donors. Throughout the year,
of the year, many communities saw the costs of UNICEF deepened its engagement and innovative
basic food and goods skyrocket, pushing more work with governments, the private sector and
families into poverty. other UN agencies.

For more than 75 years, UNICEF has worked to Yet our most critical partnership remains with
protect children during such challenging times, to children and young people themselves. They have
support their development and to safeguard their an integral role to play in creating solutions to the
rights. And in 2022, with more children in need challenges and crises we face. They are present
than at any other time in our organization’s history, and future innovators, leaders, climate activists and
we had to be at our best. peacemakers. The future may be deeply uncertain,
but it is theirs. We have a responsibility to ensure
Guided by our new 2022–2025 Strategic Plan, it is a future in which the rights of all children
UNICEF continued to deliver life-saving and everywhere are fully realized.
life-changing results for children with a focus
on reaching the most vulnerable. The results With your continued support, we can build on the
presented in this report were achieved through the achievements made in 2022 to make ours a world
dedication and courage of our nearly 17,000 staff truly fit for every child.
working across more than 190 countries and
territories. From Brazil to Ukraine, from Afghanistan
to Myanmar – UNICEF was there.

We made historic advances in preventing and

treating childhood wasting. We implemented
vaccination campaigns in humanitarian
emergencies. We confronted the global learning
crisis and expanded our efforts to prevent and
address gender-based violence. And we worked
with governments to strengthen the systems that
children rely on – like health care, water, sanitation
and education – to support their development.
Catherine Russell
This past year, UNICEF also elevated climate UNICEF Executive Director
action as a priority across the organization. This

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Delivering for children in a
year of polycrisis

Three-month-old Jean Louis sleeping

soundly at the Kay Castor site in the
commune of Clercine, where his family
found refuge after they fled gang clashes in
the commune of Croix-des-Missions.

Haiti, April 2022

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DELIVERING FOR CHILDREN IN A YEAR
OF POLYCRISIS

The ongoing fallout from COVID-19. Violent conflict. It is the right plan for this time of polycrisis, one
Climate change and environmental degradation. geared towards a holistic understanding of the
Skyrocketing costs of living. Outbreaks of diseases. deprivations and discrimination children face,
Today’s children are growing up in a world of systemic change to address these issues at their
polycrisis. roots and action through partnerships – above all
with local actors, children and young people.
Last year saw the worst food and nutrition crisis
in modern times, leading to a shocking increase UNICEF is committed to tackle the serious crises
in wasting among children in some of the world’s in education, immunization, water, sanitation
poorest countries. And even as the COVID-19 and hygiene, and mental health, expand social
pandemic winds down, its harmful impact on protection, advocate to guarantee social spending
children continues. Learning losses persist. In for vulnerable children and families, and push back
low- and middle-income countries, the proportion against threats to child rights.
of 10-year-olds who cannot read or understand a
simple text has surged to 70 per cent. Twenty-five By investing in foresight, preparedness and
million children missed out on vaccinations in 2021, adaptability, and implementing better ways
2 million more than in 2020 and 6 million more than of preventing and coping with crises, we are
in 2019, while 2022 saw outbreaks of measles, equipping ourselves as an organization – and the
cholera and other infectious diseases. children and communities we serve – to navigate
this uncertain world.
The global economic crisis has exacerbated the
deprivations facing the most vulnerable children.
Projections show one in four children living under
national poverty lines in 2023, putting the world
four years behind the pre-COVID trajectory for child
poverty reduction.
In Al-Farsi, Al-Buraiqah District, Yemen, 5-year-old
The number of people requiring humanitarian Reham Waleed shows her inked finger after receiving
assistance continues to grow, reaching about her vaccination against polio.
274 million in 2022 up from 235 million in 2021.
Yemen, June 2022
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Despite these challenges, UNICEF remained
vigilant and undaunted. In 2022, we continued
to reach as many children worldwide as in recent
years with services through UNICEF programmes.
We advocated for policies and investment to
support the health, education, well-being and
protection of children and young people. We
worked in over 190 countries and territories,
including the world’s toughest places. We never let
our guard down.

It was also a significant year of departure for

UNICEF. As the first year of implementation for
UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, 2022–2025, we are
focusing on a longer-term vision and placing much
greater emphasis on systemic change than any
previous UNICEF Strategic Plan.

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UNICEF’s top 10 achievements in 2022

356.3 million children under 5 77.9 million children were vaccinated 37.9 million out-of-school
– more than ever before – against measles, over 27 million in children and adolescents
benefited from programmes countries affected by humanitarian (49 per cent girls) accessed
to prevent malnutrition crises. UNICEF also continued to lead education in 2022,
in all its forms and a COVAX, the largest vaccine operation including 3.1 million
remarkable 182.4 million in history, delivering 977.8 million children on the move and
benefited from programmes COVID-19 vaccine doses and 18.6 million children in
for the early detection and supporting COVID-19 vaccination humanitarian settings.
treatment of wasting. in 143 countries.

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UNICEF scaled up programming to prevent violence, exploitation and

harmful practices, including through parenting support programmes reaching
11.8 million caregivers in 2022, up from 3 million in 2021.

The number of children, adolescents Disability-inclusive programmes

and caregivers provided with reached over 4.5 million children
community-based mental health with disabilities in 142 countries.
and psychosocial support services
(MHPSS) more than doubled, from
12 million in 2021 to 25.2 million in 2022.

26 million people gained access to at least At COP27, UNICEF advocacy in

basic sanitation services, 30.6 million to partnership with the Children’s
basic water, and 23.6 million to basic Environmental Rights Initiative led
hygiene and 39 million people provided to the formal recognition of the role
with water, sanitation or hygiene of children and youth as agents of
services in humanitarian emergencies. change in climate action.

With UNICEF support, governments UNICEF engaged 7.4 million children,

reached over 129 million children with adolescents, and youth in advocacy,
cash transfer programming. nearly 6.6 million in communication
and 27.1 million in online platforms.

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 Part 1

Goal Areas

“ UNICEF aims to achieve long-term results in five interconnected Goal Areas

linked to children’s rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This will help to ensure that, in all contexts, including humanitarian crises
and fragile settings, every child, including adolescents: (1) survives and
thrives with access to nutritious diets, quality primary health care, nurturing
practices and essential supplies; (2) learns and acquires skills for the future;
(3) is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful
practices; (4) has access to safe and equitable WASH services and supplies,
and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment; and (5) has
access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty. “
UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022–2025

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UNICEF Annual Report 2022

Goal Area 1:

Every child survives and thrives

KEY RESULTS The polycrisis has created a multifaceted crisis

in children’s health and nutrition, amplifying
182.4 million children under 5 benefited pre-existing challenges in providing children with
from services for the early prevention, the care and support they need to survive and
detection and treatment of child wasting, thrive from early childhood through adolescence
7.3 million of which were treated for severe and into adulthood.
wasting and other forms of severe acute
malnutrition. In 2022, UNICEF focused on primary health care
as the foundation of universal health care and the
77.9 million children, including over delivery of integrated, prevention-focused services
27 million in countries affected by and support across childhood. UNICEF also led
humanitarian crises, were vaccinated
global action to end the triple burden of malnutrition
against measles.
(undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and
overweight), and prioritized the scale-up of policies
356.3 million children benefited from
and programmes to advocate for and deliver diets,
programmes to prevent undernutrition in all
services and practices that support good nutrition
its forms.
for all children, adolescents and women.

UNICEF awarded a $170 million contract

UNICEF introduced an innovative advance payment
to supply the first-ever malaria vaccine. The
solution to enable ready-to-use therapeutic
landmark award will lead to the availability of
food suppliers to meet surging demand, and
18 million doses over the next three years,
launched No Time to Waste, a coordinated effort
potentially saving thousands of lives every
year.

UNICEF supported 143 countries to

deliver COVID-19 vaccination services.
With its partners, UNICEF continued to
lead the largest vaccine supply and delivery
operation in history, helping to ensure
equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.

67 countries have integrated mental

health services into primary health care,
including through school and digital
platforms since 2021.

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GOAL AREA 1: EVERY CHILD SURVIVES AND THRIVES

to accelerate the early prevention, detection and • In 2022, the number of children suffering from
treatment of child wasting in the worst-affected severe wasting in the 15 worst-affected countries
countries, garnering about $600 million in pledges was expected to reach 8 million, 3 million more
during the 2022 United Nations General Assembly. than the total treated in all countries in 2021.

• Hunger and food poverty are at an all-time high.

Global programme expenses in Goal Area 1 across
At least 202 million children under 5 live in
155 countries totalled $3.3 billion in 2022, including
severe food poverty, which puts them at high
$2.1 billion for humanitarian action.
risk of stunting, wasting and death.
• Over 5 million children under 5 died in 2021,
A girl reads from her textbook in her class in Bamyan
primarily in low- and middle-income countries
Province, central Afghanistan. UNICEF supports
in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia. 325 community-based education classes in Bamyan,
including 76 accelerated learning centres, providing
• The number of ‘zero-dose’ children – those access to education for 11,600 children, more than
missing out on any vaccination – reached 70 per cent of whom are girls.
18 million in 2021, up by 5 million since 2019.
Afghanistan, November 2022
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Goal Area 2:

Every child learns and acquires

skills for the future

KEY RESULTS The year 2022 marked a transition from a state of

global education emergency response towards
37.9 million out-of-school children and recovery. Although by September 2022 all
adolescents (49 per cent girls) accessed countries had lifted pandemic-related nationwide
education in 2022, including 3.1 million school closures, disruptions to education
children on the move and 18.6 million persisted – as did the learning losses resulting
children in humanitarian settings. from their cumulative effects, disproportionately
affecting the most marginalized children and
Learning materials reached 28.3 million youth, especially girls.
children, including 3.8 million in humanitarian
settings, while 85,099 school management Despite the challenges, significant efforts have
committees or similar bodies received been made to help learners recover the learning
training through UNICEF-supported losses, including through leveraging technology
programmes. and accelerated learning methods.

In 2022, UNICEF urged every government In 2022, global programme expenses in Goal
to endorse and commit to the RAPID agenda: Area 2 across 148 countries totalled $1.5 billion,
Reach and retain every child in school; including $0.9 billion for humanitarian action.
Assess learning levels; Prioritize teaching the
fundamentals; Increase catch-up learning and • In low- and middle-income countries,
progress beyond what was lost; and Develop the share of children living in learning
psychosocial health and well-being so every poverty – already at 57 per cent before the
child is ready to learn. pandemic – has increased to 70 per cent.

• The number of out-of-school children has

reduced by over 35 per cent over the past
two decades. Yet 64 million children of
primary school age remain out of school,
the majority from marginalized groups.

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Goal Area 3:

Every child is protected from

violence and exploitation

KEY RESULTS Despite progress over the past two dec-

ades, significant acceleration is required
Across 109 countries, The number of girls and to meet the child protection-related
UNICEF supported women receiving prevention Sustainable Development Goals
4.7 million children who had and care interventions for (SDGs). Children living in countries
experienced violence to child marriage and female affected by conflict or fragility remain
receive health, social work, genital mutilation doubled the furthest behind, and recent UNICEF
justice or law enforcement since 2021, reaching
evidence shows the increasing vulner-
services. 17.2 million and over
ability of crisis-affected girls. UNICEF
383,000, respectively.
analysis shows that 20 countries in
In 2022, the number of
Africa are on track to achieve universal
countries with interoperabil- Through the new
birth registration by 2030.
ity between the health and 2022–2030 Disability
civil registration systems to Inclusion Policy and
In 2022, global programme expenses
facilitate birth registration Strategy, UNICEF prioritized
in Goal Area 3 across 151 countries
increased to a disability-inclusive
59 from 54 in 2021. approach to child protection. totalled $0.9 billion, including $0.5 billion
Data-driven programming for humanitarian action.
UNICEF reached more was a key priority in
than 5 million women and addressing inequities and • Violence against women and girls
children in 65 countries with sensitive issues, including has intensified since the pandemic’s
gender-based violence (GBV) child online protection, outbreak, and child marriage and
risk mitigation interventions, MHPSS, prevention of female genital mutilation – both of
and almost 6 million in sexual exploitation and which had declined in recent decades
64 countries through GBV abuse, surrogacy and – are now expected to increase.
prevention programming. children on the move.
• Globally, the births of one quarter
of children under the age of 5 have
In 2022, 65 country
never been officially recorded.
offices put in place a
system for Prevention of
Sexual Exploitation and
Abuse (PSEA), compared
to 53 in 2021. Globally, over
49 million children and
adults now have access to a
safe and accessible channel
to report sexual exploitation
and abuse by humanitarian,
development, protection or
other personnel.

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GOAL AREA 3: EVERY CHILD IS PROTECTED
FROM VIOLENCE AND EXPLOITATION

Fatimata Sawadogo, 8 years old, with her grandmother Mariam Sawadogo, in the village of
Boussouma, in north central Burkina Faso. Fatimata was subjected to female genital mutilation
at the age of 4, which led to serious health complicatioms. Following a successful surgical
internention at the UNICEF-supported CHR Hospital in Kaya, her grandmother now says “It is
still a tradition in our culture, but now I have seen what a danger it is to the child, I am against
it. I could have lost my granddaughter.”

Burkina Faso, May 2022

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Goal Area 4:

Every child lives in a safe and

clean environment

KEY RESULTS The world is making progress in improving

access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH),
26 million people gained access to at least but not at the rate necessary to meet SDG 6.
basic sanitation services, 30.6 million to basic Insufficient financing, the increasing impact
water that is safe and available when needed and
of climate change on WASH systems and
23.6 million to basic hygiene. Over 88 per cent of
widespread humanitarian crises are impeding
these people were in fragile countries.
progress and threatening past gains.

UNICEF direct support resulted in 5.4 million

In 2022, UNICEF worked to increase WASH sector
people using climate-resilient water systems
financing through support to government partners,
and 3.2 million using climate-resilient sanitation
partnering with the private sector, and engaging
facilities.
with innovative financing initiatives.
UNICEF constructed 1,855 solar water
UNICEF is shifting its programmatic focus, as
systems in 2022, providing safe water to
communities, health-care facilities and schools, articulated in the new UNICEF Game Plan to Reach
and expanded technical support services, Safely Managed Sanitation, with the goal of helping
including through regional solar hubs. 1 billion people reach this sanitation standard
by 2030. The plan aims to help renew interest in
The More Water More Life initiative used sanitation among stakeholders and reverse the
innovative mapping data to predict affordable trend of declining funds earmarked for sanitation
groundwater solutions for water shortages in programming across the sector.
Eastern and Southern Africa. Successful pilots in
Ethiopia and Madagascar mapped groundwater
to enable more cost-effective water provision for
over 1.1 million children and are paving a path to
scale in more countries across the region.

At COP27, UNICEF advocacy led to the

formal recognition of the role of children and
youth as agents of change in climate action,
and Parties were urged to include them in their
processes for designing and implementing
climate policy and action.

UNICEF responded to the global cholera

outbreak that hit an unprecedented 30 countries
in 2022, including through emergency support
interventions in many countries that
have not had cholera cases for years.

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GOAL AREA 4: EVERY CHILD LIVES IN A
SAFE AND CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

In 2022, global programme expenses in Goal Area 4 across

156 countries totalled $1.3 billion, including $0.9 billion for
humanitarian action.
Phan Huynh Nguyên Tân Phan,
• More than half of all children – approximately 1 billion 11, collects tree branches to help
– live at extremely high risk from climate hazards. cover his grandmother’s house
in Tam Ky, Quang Nam Province
• 559 million children are exposed to high ‘
after its roof was blown off by
~
heatwave frequency – and with global warming
‘

Typhoon Noru. According to

trends, by 2050, this will be the case for all UNICEF’s Children’s Climate Risk
the world’s 2.02 billion children, regardless of Index, approximately 400 million
efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. children live in areas highly
exposed to tropical cyclones.
• Unsafe WASH is responsible for the deaths of
around 1,000 children under 5 every day.
Viet Nam, September 2022
© UNICEF/UN0712674/Pham Ha Duy Linh

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Goal Area 5:

Every child has an equitable

chance in life

KEY RESULTS The impacts of the polycrisis have pushed more

children and families into poverty. As of 2022, half
With UNICEF support, governments reached of the 1.2 billion people living in multidimensional
over 129 million children with cash transfer poverty were children. Child poverty soared in 2022
programming.
in Europe and Central Asia, as the Ukraine war
and rising inflation plunged 4 million children into
UNICEF expanded the use of humanitarian
poverty, a 19 per cent increase since 2021.
cash transfers as part of emergency response
reaching over 2.8 million households in
Addressing the deprivations children face and
43 countries (up from 2.7 million in 2020).
making progress towards the SDGs require
expanding social protection, particularly among
60 countries had disability-inclusive social
children. While there were encouraging signs of
protection systems in 2022, up from 55 in 2021.
increased coverage during the pandemic, only
a portion of COVID-era programmes continued
To promote the inclusion of refugee children
in 2022, including in low- and middle-income
and their families in national plans, budgets,
countries.
datasets and service delivery systems, UNICEF
developed a Strategic Collaboration Framework
with the United Nations High Commissioner for Between 2021 and 2022, as UNICEF continued its
Refugees. work on policy, evidence, financing, inclusiveness
and shock-responsiveness, the number of
countries with strong or moderately strong social
protection systems increased to 68.

Global programme expenses in Goal Area 5 across

159 countries totalled $1 billion in 2022, including
$0.7 billion for humanitarian action.

• At least two thirds of households with children

have lost income since the onset of COVID-19.

• As of 2022, half of the 1.2 billion people living

in multidimensional poverty are children under
18 years old.

• Less than one in five global social protection

measures during COVID-19 addressed gender.

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CHANGE STRATEGIES

Wilneydis helps her father Wilfredo to make a chair from reused tires in their backyard. They are originally
from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and have been living in Tumbaco, Ecuador, for 10 months.

Their family is part of the Integral Protection Program (IPP) promoted by UNICEF. The IPP seeks to protect
Venezuelan children and adolescents and their families in a situation of human mobility in Ecuador and is
based on a comprehensive and multipurpose strategy that combines monetary transfers with counseling
to access social services, the exercise of their rights, life proposals, psychosocial support and continuous
monitoring.

Ecuador, October 2022

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Humanitarian action

In 2022, UNICEF responded to both human-made KEY RESULTS

crises and natural disasters aggravated by climate
change, including drought in the Horn of Africa;
8.8 million children and women
devastating floods in Pakistan; surging conflict in humanitarian contexts received
in the central Sahel; conflict in Ukraine, and the interventions designed to prevent GBV,
resulting massive refugee outflow into Europe; mitigate risks and support survivors.
crisis in Afghanistan; conflict in northern Ethiopia
and Yemen; and gang violence and flooding in Haiti, UNICEF direct support in humanitarian
also hit by the global cholera outbreak, affecting an emergencies reached over 23 million people
unprecedented 30 countries in 2022. with WASH services in 2022, including
through major interventions in response
Children living in conflict zones continue to come to war in Ukraine, flooding in Pakistan and
under attack on an alarming scale. Recent years conflict and severe drought in Ethiopia and
have seen an exacerbation of children’s vulnerability neighbouring countries.
to grave violations.

• The number of people requiring

humanitarian assistance continued to
grow in 2022, reaching about 274 million,
up from 235 million in 2021.

• Altogether, nearly 37 million children

worldwide are displaced due to conflict and
violence, a number of displaced children
not seen since the Second World War.

Following page: Eight-month-old Latu Doyo

has been receiving treatment for severe
acute malnutrition at the Dubuluk Health
Centre. UNICEF runs a find-and-treat
campaign in the drought-affected areas
of the Borena zone to identify children
with malnutrition and provide them with
treatment. UNICEF also provides life-saving
supplies to health facilities in the area.

Ethiopia, October 2022

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HUMANITARIAN

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 CHANGE STRATEGIES

Part 2

Change
Strategies

UNICEF’s change strategies are key

to accelerating progress towards the
Sustainable Development Goals and
realizing children’s rights.

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CHANGE STRATEGIES

Gender Innovation
Harmful gender norms are perpetuated at the Now, more than ever, innovation is critical to
highest levels. In some countries, they become building a better world with and for children.
entrenched in laws and policies that fail to uphold – UNICEF is committed to design, use and scale truly
or that even violate – girls’ rights. Reducing gender transformational solutions for every child to thrive.
inequality strengthens economies and builds stable,
resilient societies that give all people – including boys UNICEF delivered 69 Oxygen Plants-in-a-Box –
and men – the opportunity to fulfil their potential. the fastest product innovation in UNICEF’s history
– to help 27 countries rapidly increase their oxygen
In 2022, UNICEF expanded its programming to production capacity.
address the social and behavioural determinants
of violence, exploitation and harmful practices UNICEF leveraged its purchasing power and
affecting children, with 31.1 million people engaged expertise in markets and product innovation to
in reflective community dialogues on discriminatory reduce market barriers that hinder access to
social and gender norms and harmful practices, up supplies and engaged with businesses to scale
40 per cent since 2021. six novel products responding to the unmet needs
of children, including hearing aids, wheelchairs,
Of all UNICEF-supported countries, 47 per cent had glucometers and baby transport warmers.
inclusive and gender-equitable systems for access
to quality learning opportunities, and 49 per cent By promoting South-South cooperation, UNICEF
had effective student and community participation supported adaptation of local solutions and
within the education system. technology as well as resource mobilization from
Global South countries. Sixty-one per cent of
Meanwhile, UNICEF supported 37 governments UNICEF country programmes engaged in South-
to develop gender-responsive and -transformative South cooperation in 2022.
social protection programmes or systems, up
from 22 in 2021.

Right: In partnership
with the Government
of the United Kingdom,
UNICEF installed
a Pressure Swing
Adsorption Oxygen
Plant at Masaka
Regional Referral
Hospital, Uganda, to
increase the oxygen
production capacity
of the 200-bed facility
and other lower-level
facilities in seven
neighbouring districts in
central Uganda.

Uganda, October 2022

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FINANCIALS

Engaging with
young people
UNICEF is dedicated to Linking the Voices of Youth diverse ethnic groups through
platform with UNICEF’s intergenerational dialogue, young
being a child- and youth-
Global Advocacy Priorities peace ambassadors, U-Reporters
powered organization helped engage young people and life skills training.
in the spirit of Article 12 in UNICEF campaigns, while
co-creating content with Youth U-Report, UNICEF’s
of the Convention on the
Advocates helped to elevate digital platform for youth
Rights of the Child, which engagement, registered
young people’s voices.
lays out children’s right to 8 million new U-Reporters
in 2022, bringing the total to
be heard on matters that The engagement of young
27.5 million in 92 countries.
affect them. Young people people was a key aspect of
The platform engaged youth
the strong performance of
not only provide key input in Ukraine, the Bolivarian
UNICEF projects implemented Republic of Venezuela,
into UNICEF’s priorities, with support from the UN Central America and other
they are also UNICEF’s Peacebuilding Fund, such as the humanitarian situations.
most crucial partners in cross-border partnership with
the United Nations Development On global UNICEF social
achieving results and
Programme to reduce the media channels, 6 million
driving sustainable change. common vulnerabilities of followers were 24 years old
populations in border areas and younger.
In 2022, 10.6 million young between Burkina Faso and Côte UNICEF engaged 7.4 million
volunteers played a significant d’Ivoire. The project provided children, adolescents, and
role across sectors including children and young people youth in advocacy, nearly
climate action and pandemic aged 15–24 with WASH and 6.6 million in communication
and emergency response, child protection services, while and 27.1 million in online
doing everything from providing targeting those belonging to platforms.
psychosocial support to children
taking refuge in metro stations
to delivering relief items to
displaced people to measuring
air quality.

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Dr. Nageeb Hammad Ibrahim, Community engagement and social

UNICEF Health Specialist, speaks
to a mother with disabilities during
and behaviour change
the distribution of Long-Lasting Social and behaviour change can help mobilize local action
Insecticide-Treated Nets (LLINs) in
to expand people’s control over the choices they need to
Kassala state, as part of a community
protect their rights.
awareness drive to enhance
utilization of the bed nets.
In 2022, in areas including child protection, mental
health, education, immunization, nutrition, disability and
Sudan, December 2022
gender, community engagement and social and behaviour
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change were important components of programming to
address barriers to service access and use, and to change
attitudes, practices and social norms underlying child
rights violations.

In 2022, 60 per cent of country offices established or

advanced community engagement and social behaviour
change standards for programming, up from 32 per cent
in 2021, while 34 country offices established standards
for participatory planning, monitoring, feedback and social
accountability in development and humanitarian operations
– an important milestone for integrating the voice of
children and their communities into UNICEF’s work.

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Partnerships Data and research

UNICEF cannot do it alone. UNICEF unites with UNICEF is taking a more integrated approach
the public sector, private sector and civil society to data, research, evaluation and knowledge
to improve children’s health, nutrition, education management to support country programmes,
and protection. Our individual supporters help so that teams and offices can access the
by donating, volunteering or being advocates for knowledge and technical capacity they need to
children and young people in their communities. support their work.

Through engagement with businesses, UNICEF UNICEF led the creation of the International
reached over 72 million children by mobilizing Classification of Violence against Children,
business influence, core assets or changes in endorsed as an international standard, to help
business practices. Fifty-four country offices align national definitions and data collection efforts
and National Committees reported successful and greatly increase data availability.
engagements with over 2,800 businesses to change
business practices that affect children’s rights. The sixth round of Multiple Indicator Cluster
Surveys (MICS) (2017–2022) was completed,
In 2022, 111 (87 per cent) of UNICEF country with a record 77 national surveys and MICS Plus
offices delivered programmes in partnership with mobile phone surveys producing data in near real
other United Nations agencies. time. A pilot in three countries for the first time
linked MICS data with data from education and
Close collaboration with local partners remained health administrative systems – an integration
a priority in 2022, as UNICEF worked with with the potential to radically increase the
2,184 civil society partners (1,634 local NGOs analytical power of data on children.
and 550 international NGOs) in humanitarian
response. Nearly $1.5 billion in cash was The Child Risk Data initiative, piloting in Antigua
transferred to partners at all levels for and Barbuda, Cambodia, Kenya and Somalia,
humanitarian response. combines subnational data on climate and other
hazards with indicators on child vulnerability to
help UNICEF and partners prioritize programming
Communication and advocacy and emergency preparedness based on evidence
about where needs are greatest.
Integrated communication and advocacy directly
contributed to results across all Goal Areas.
Clear, simple and data-driven messaging and
calls to action catalysed successful advocacy
with governments, donors and partners, while
entrenching UNICEF as a solutions-focused
organization that tells a compelling and cohesive
story of impact for children.

UNICEF reached 169.9 million digital supporters

by the end of 2022.

UNICEF continued to have a strong voice in the

media at the global level to advocate for and
promote child rights, increasing its share of voice
to rank among the top three of its comparator
organizations.

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Delivering
essential supplies
Supplies are essential to In 2022, UNICEF procured a Despite increasing pressure on
record $7.4 billion in goods supply chains and rising freight
fulfil children’s rights.
and services in 162 countries costs, UNICEF supported
Supporting child survival and areas. This represents countries in strengthening the
and development a 93 per cent increase in resilience of supply chains and
programmes and rapid total procurement value supported 27 governments
from pre–COVID-19 figures. in developing or updating
emergency response,
Over $863.9 million worth of supply chain strategies to
UNICEF-procured supplies emergency supplies were address barriers to accessing
are critical in providing procured and delivered to health, nutrition and WASH
for children’s health and 140 countries and areas. commodities.

education and protecting

them from abuse,
exploitation, and neglect.
UNICEF’s Supply Division
in Copenhagen is home to
the largest humanitarian
warehouse in the world.

First Aid kits, hospital

equipment, medicine
and other critical
supplies are delivered
to UNICEF’s warehouse
in Lviv, Ukraine before
being distributed across
the country.

Ukraine, March 2022

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Financial
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Financial results, 2022

But while total UNICEF revenue in 2022 grew by an additional
Despite the many $1.8 billion compared to 2021, Core Resources for Results (RR)
challenges UNICEF had decreased by 19 per cent, or $284 million. The declining proportion of
to face in its fundraising RR to total revenue – dropping from 17 per cent in 2021 to 12 per cent
in 2022 – continues the trend away from the Funding Compact
efforts due to the war in
commitment made by Member States.
Ukraine, supply chain
disruptions and economic RR funding is essential to UNICEF being a mandate-driven rather
volatility, UNICEF’s than a project-driven organization. RR funding ensures that UNICEF
deals with the underlying systemic causes of child deprivation and
revenue reached its
rights abuses instead of only the symptoms.
highest level to date.
For more details on UNICEF’s revenue and contributions received
from partners, please see the UNICEF Funding Compendium.
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UNICEF revenue,
2014–2022
(US$ millions)

2022 total revenue:

$10,329 million

$11,000

$10,000
Other
$9,000

$ 4,355
Resources
$8,000 (Emergency)

$ 3,054
$7,000

$ 2,358
$6,000
$ 1,927
$ 2,127

$ 2,050
$5,000 Other
$1,696

$ 2,015
$ 1,824

Resources

$ 4,345
$4,000

$ 3,660
(Regular)

$ 3,763
$ 2,942
$ 3,026

$ 2,981

$3,000
$ 2,256

$ 1,859
$ 2,137

$2,000
Regular
$1,000
$ 1,317

$ 1,424

$ 1,807

$ 1,381

$ 1,427

$ 1,855

$ 1,629
Resources
$1,314

$1,095

2014* 2015* 2016* 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

* 2014–2016 revenue figures have been restated to reflect UNICEF’s 2017 revenue recognition policy.

UNICEF
expenditure, 2022
(US$ millions)

BUDGET CATEGORY

Development $8,529

Management $363

United Nations development coordination $11

Independent oversight and assurance $19

Special purpose (including capital investment) $20

Private fundraising and partnerships $210

NOTE: UNICEF expenditure by Total expenditure $9,152

budget categories is presented on a
modified cash basis.

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Direct programme expenses 2022, by goal area and region

(US$ millions)
RR = Regular Resources, ORR= Other Resources, Regular, ORE = Other Resources, Emergency

$3,257.2 $1,559.1 $876.3

Programme Survive and Thrive Learn

Protection from
expenses Violence and
Exploitation
by goal area:
ORR $359.6

ORR $983.7

ORE $352.0
ORE $1,492.2 RR
ORE $388.2 $187.2 RR $164.7

Safe and Clean Equitable

Environment Chance
in Life
ORE $614.3
ORE $567.3

RR $169.3

RR $107.5
ORR $1,436.3

RR $328.6 ORR $480.8 ORR $353.2

$1,264.4 $1,028.0

$3,044.7 $327.7 $880.1

Programme Inter-
Sub-Saharan Europe and
expenses regional
Africa Central Asia
by region ORR
$145.5

ORE
$105.7 ORE $679.9
RR RR
$76.6 ORR $165.6 $34.6
ORE $980.9
$396.0

Latin America and the Caribbean

$43.4

ORE $218.1 ORR $134.5 RR

Total programme
expenses Middle East
and North Africa
$7,985
ORR $1,533.9 RR $529.9

million Asia
ORR $846.9
RR $209.6

RR $63.3

Note: Due to rounding,

totals may differ slightly.
ORR $787.2 ORE $718.0 ORE $711.3
$1,714.8 $1,621.6
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Top 10 countries, contributions received

by donor and funding type, 2022
(US$ millions)

Government: Regular resources Government: Other resources

Private sector: Regular resources Private sector: Other resources

United
States

Germany

Japan

United
Kingdom

Sweden

Canada

Netherlands

Republic
of Korea

Norway

Switzerland

0 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700 $800 $900 $1,000 $1,100 $1,200

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Top 30 resource partners by

contributions received, 2022
(US$ millions)

Regular Other Resources

Partner Total
Resources Regular Emergency
United States 134 167 985 1,286
Germany 98 690 259 1,047
United States Fund for UNICEF 41 328 311 680
World Bank, Washington D.C. - 542 - 542
European Commission - 317 207 524
GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance - 111 229 339
Canada 12 196 55 263
German Committee for UNICEF 79 27 128 234
Japan Committee for UNICEF 133 21 79 233
United Kingdom - 68 160 228
UNOCHA - - 224 224
Sweden 63 87 72 222
Japan 19 33 146 199
Global Partnership for Education - 177 - 177
Netherlands 34 94 45 173
United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF 19 62 85 166
Norway 44 57 32 133
United Nations Multi Partner Trust - 68 42 110
Swedish Committee for UNICEF 38 8 62 108
Korean Committee for UNICEF 86 13 7 106
French Committee for UNICEF 51 11 34 97
Spanish Committee for UNICEF 61 10 24 95
Swiss Committee for UNICEF 7 17 68 92
Asian Development Bank - 81 2 83
Netherlands Committee for UNICEF 28 5 38 70
Education Cannot Wait Fund - 67 - 67
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1 56 6 63
Italian Committee for UNICEF 44 3 13 60
Denmark 11 24 23 58
United Nations Joint Programme - 49 7 57

NOTES:
Contributions received from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs include $197 million related to the
Central Emergency Response Fund and $27 million related to humanitarian country-based pooled funds.
Contributions received from the Democratic Republic of the Congo include $49 million related to the World Bank Group,
$12 million related to Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance and $2 million related to the Global Fund.
The UK’s core contribution for 2022 was intended for disbursement in the calendar year of 2022. However, due to
unforeseen circumstances, the core contribution was paid in full in March 2023.

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For every child

Whoever she is.
Wherever he lives.
Every child deserves a childhood.
A future.
A fair chance.
That’s why UNICEF is there.
For each and every child.
Working day in and day out.
In more than 190 countries and territories.
Reaching the hardest to reach.
The furthest from help.
The most excluded.
It’s why we stay to the end.
And never give up.

Published by UNICEF
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www.unicef.org

ISBN: 978-92-806-5461-5

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