UNICEF UK Trustees Report and Financial Statements 2010

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The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31 December 2010 implement policies supporting sport and play in over 10 countries. Work also started in three new countries (Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan), with a further four planned to launch in 2011. To enable this work, the II Foundation (the governing organisation of International Inspiration) designated funds of nearly £3 million to UNICEF programmes, with significant funds sourced from DFID, the Premier League, major donors and other bodies. Lasting legacy in Azerbaijan Through International Inspiration, UNICEF UK and partners helped develop the first National Strategy for Physical Education and Sport Development in Azerbaijan. The strategy focuses on sport in the community and is aimed at increasing youth participation in sport with a special focus on increasing women coaches and girls’ participation in sport and play activities. International Inspiration has also prompted a new law on PE and youth sport. The law aims to have sport recognised as a tool for child and youth development, guaranteeing sporting opportunities for disadvantaged children, and allowing children themselves to design sporting activities and policies at local level. Children’s rights sport in India Through International Inspiration, UNICEF is the technical partner of the Government of India’s Sport for All initiative. As part of the strategy, UNICEF UK supported the development of a film promoting the right to play, shown to a global audience during the closing ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. In addition, International Inspiration has helped develop a series of case studies highlighting the role of sport in empowerment, gender equity and community development, which was shared with Ministers of Sport during the Commonwealth Ministers’ meeting. To date, International Inspiration in India has trained 430 master coaches and 17,000 community sport volunteers, who will provide quality and inclusive sporting opportunities to more than 1.3 million children. From London 2012 to Rio 2016 Through International Inspiration, UNICEF UK is helping UNICEF Brazil to make sport for development an important part of its programme strategy for improving children’s lives. The plan is to learn from the experience of International Inspiration and other initiatives of London 2012 to support Brazil’s national efforts around designing a lasting social legacy for Rio 2016. This would serve not only millions of children in Brazil, but hopefully also children across South America so that the 2016 Olympic Games could further promote the concept of child-centred international legacy programmes within the Olympic movement. To achieve this, International Inspiration raised over £100,000 that UNICEF is investing in a series of workshops and consultations with young people, the Mayor of Rio, and the Government of Brazil to produce a youth manifesto for the Games and to shape the legacy programme. These activities will culminate in an international conference where we will present the results of International Inspiration in Brazil and national and international authorities discuss how to make the best use of major sporting events for children and young people. 18
The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31 December 2010 Girls’ education, Beyond Sport UNICEF UK is the international development partner of Beyond Sport, an organisation dedicated to furthering the global sport for development movement. In 2010, Beyond Sport held their second annual summit during which UNICEF UK ran a one-day seminar on the role of sport in girls’ education. Leading professionals from the worlds of sport, education and girls’ empowerment shared the successes and challenges of using sport to encourage girls to go to and stay in school. As a result of this meeting, the UN Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) are now conducting a research project designed to uncover good practice and make recommendations to global organisations and national governments on the role sport can play in supporting girls’ education. Climate change Climate change presents the world with an urgent global challenge, making it harder to meet the Millennium Development Goals and undermining UNICEF’s priorities in making the world better for children. Climate change is seriously affecting children due to a wide range of impacts including rising malnutrition, diminishing water supplies, increasing disease and more frequent and severe storms and floods. In 2010, UNICEF UK launched Carbon Positive to raise funds to help children adapt to their changing climate. Carbon Positive, an alternative to carbon offsetting, enables individuals and companies to put right the damage caused by carbon emissions by funding UNICEF adaptation programmes and encouraging them to reduce their carbon footprint. UNICEF UK developed a carbon calculator to help individuals and organisations work out their carbon footprint and we provided an opportunity to invest in UNICEF’s climate change adaptation work in five areas: water, food, disaster preparedness, health, and education. Solar lamps, Mauritania Much of Mauritania lacks electricity or suffers from sporadic electricity supply. Many schools either have to shorten their days so that children can travel safely to and from home during daylight hours, or provide kerosene lamps that are hazardous, expensive to fuel, and provide flickering light. Solar lamps are a low-cost alternative that emit constant bright light. The lamps improve the quality of learning as children can study better at school and in their homes at night. The lamps also help to extend the school day and enable children and others to take evening classes. Initial evidence from 125 rural schools using solar lamps provided by UNICEF UK showed considerable improvements in pupil registration and attendance. In 2010, Energizer donated £120,000 to help UNICEF UK provide solar power to a further 260 schools, extending and improving education in Mauritania. Rainwater harvesting, Mozambique In 2010, UNICEF UK provided £33,000 for rainwater harvesting programmes at schools in the Chibuto, Changara and Buzi districts of Mozambique. Seven out of 10 schools in these three rural areas lack water and sanitation facilities. These districts also suffer the effects of climate change, experiencing prolonged droughts and shorter rainy seasons that result in limited groundwater. Poor access to safe water 19
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