UNICEF are latest to commit to IATI

Published by: IATI Team on the Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 - Comments Off

Children in Central African Republic (CAR). UNICEF runs many programmes in CAR, including education programmes for conflict-affected children. After years of conflict in the rural north of the country, dozens of simple 'bush schools' are helping many children displaced by the fighting to return to full-time education. For many, it is the only chance they have to study. © UNICEF Pierre Holtz

Congratulations to UNICEF, who yesterday announced their decision to become the 29th signatory to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). They join four other UN agencies who are signatories of IATI: UNDP, UNOPS, UNHABITAT and UNCDF.

Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, announced in the opening remarks of the First Regular Session of the UNICEF Executive Board that:

UNICEF also will be joining the World Bank, DFID, the African Development Bank,
the European Commission, and others, in the International Aid Transparency Initiative, or
IATI. By creating common standards for sharing information about aid flows, IATI should
make that information much more accessible to the public.

Read the full transcript of this document here.

Guided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF works:

for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.

We welcome UNICEF to IATI and will provide updates on any further news of this signing here, in addition to any publications of IATI data from the organisation.