UNICEF in Emergencies


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With staff in over 150 countries and supply networks around the globe, UNICEF is on the ground before, during and after most emergencies happen.

How UNICEF responds
War and natural disasters have an especially fierce effect on children. Both put children's health and well-being at risk. Both can separate them from their parents, or make them orphans. UNICEF supplies food, water, sanitation and health care to young people caught in humanitarian emergencies.

First steps
In the first six-to-eight weeks following the outbreak of a crisis UNICEF—with its national, United Nations and NGO partner organizations—works to assess, monitor, report and communicate on the situation of children and women.

Based on that assessment, UNICEF and its partners work together to address the following five priorities:

1. Keeping children alive
2. Reuniting families and caring for children who have lost parents
3. Protecting children from exploitation
4. Getting children back in school as quickly as possible
5. Preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS

For an in-depth look at UNICEF's emergency response, explore the Indian Ocean Tsunami Case Study by LAUNCHING THE MINI-SITE.

For information on UNICEF's work for current emergencies, click here.