UNICEF's Priorities for Children 2002-2005

An overview of UNICEF's strategic plan for the period 2002-2005, detailing how UNICEF expects to secure the greatest improvements in the lives of children and young people.

Strategies for Girls' Education
Millions of young girls never attend school. Millions more never complete their education. This publication, reprinted from The State of the World's Children 2004, describes key strategies that can be used to ensure that more girls attend and complete school.  

Annual Report 2003
(covering 2003)

The UNICEF Annual Report 2003 spotlights our medium-term strategic plan, the organization's blueprint for fulfilling the promises of the Millennium Development Goals. It highlights the progress made in our five priority areas and provides information on our supply operation, finances, partnerships and alliances, National Committees and goodwill ambassadors.

“There can be no significant or sustainable transformations in societies and no significant reduction in poverty until girls receive the quality basic education they need to take their rightful place as equal partners in development.”

— Carol Bellamy, UNICEF Executive Director —

Accelerating progress in girls' education: 25 by 2005