Some special functions of UNICEF (part-2)

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Hi friends, How are you all?Hopefully everybody is well.Now I want to discuss about some special functions of UNICEF. You can see the first part from here.So let's start😇😇

Monitoring infant growth rates:

Poor physical growth is linked closely to overall health and development, and affects a third of the world's children. UNICEF works with governments and non-government organisations on a range of issues from growth monitoring to prevention and management of childhood illness. At this time,UNICEF supports growth monitoring in health facilities and communities in more than 40 countries, generating information that is used by the immediate cake takers and local health workers to assess child growth, analyse the causes of any problems that exist,and determine necessary action.

Providing nutrition in emergencies :

Young children,pregnant and lactating mothers are extremely vulnerable in emergencies. UNICEF's foremost priority is to prevent death from starvation and disease and to reduce malnutrition by supporting therapeutic and supplementary feeding, providing essential micronutrients and feeding orphans. The long-tern goal is always to work with communities to address the underlying problems that create these dire situations to prevent a future occurrence or to devise better coping strategies.

Nutrition and HIV :

With HIV/AIDS,UNICEF's focus is two fold:reducing mother-to-child transmission of the virus during breastfeeding and meeting the nutritional needs of those who are HIV positive or affected by HIV/AIDS, such as orphans and children living in households where family members have HIV.Strategies include providing voluntary, confidential testing and infant feeding counselling for pregnant women,helping governments develop infant and young child feeding policies with HIV guidelines, encouraging and supporting breastfeeding, and promoting optimal infant feeding in hospitals.

Supporting community-based programmes :

Families and communities are the key players in the battle against childhood malnutrition and must work together to assess, analyse and take action to solve any problems. UNICEF'S strategy is to empower community members to become their own agents of change.UNICEF'S is to work with government to support participatory,community -based programmes focussing on children's survival,growth and development.

The Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition programme in South India and the Iringa Programme in Tanzania are among the largest and most well known community-based child survival, growth and development programmes.Thailand, Combodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Uganda, Kenya, Madagascar, Ghana, Niger, Oman, Brazil and others are working on similar programmes.

Related programming:

UNICEF'S programmes in the area of child and maternal health, basic education, water and sanitation, and improved child protection contribute to the reduction of child malnutrition.

The development of a milk supply within a country has also received UNICEF support. More than 200 milk processing plants in 41 countries, have been set up in cooperation with FAO. Fish farming,poultry raising, gardening,digging of wells,testing of protein mixtures and iodisation of salt in areas of endemic goitre prevailing are some of the programmes supported by UNICEF.

UNICEF depends entirely on voluntary contribution. Nearly three-fourth of its income comes from various governments.The rest comes from organisations and from individuals through the sale of greeting cards and other fund raising campaigns.

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https://www.toppr.com/en-bd/ask/question/state-the-functions-of-the-unicef/

and "Nutrition Science" by B. Srilakshmi

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