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Are you ready to kick back and make your personal list for favorites to read over the summer? Your XUNICEF colleagues have a wide range of suggestions. Here are some links for building your own list.
Start with Fuad Kronfol’s comprehensive and expanding bibliography of reflections from your XUNICEF colleagues. Its extent and breadth are quite extraordinary, reflecting the continued dedication of many staff members, including Fuad himself, to the wellbeing of children. Your recent contributions have been added.
Are you looking for a recent book reflecting on UNICEF under Jim Grant’s leadership? Check out Adam Fifield’s (2015) A Mighty Purpose: How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving its Children. Let’s hear your take on his account.
If you are looking for the larger picture of the United Nations as a whole, its history aspirations and ideas, you need go no farther than Richard Jolly’s UN Ideas that Changed the World , co-authored with Louis Emmerij and Thomas Weiss, with a foreword by Kofi Annan.
For those who want to take a forward look or catch up with UNICEF today, there is much to inspire your summer. Start by taking a new look at the UNICEF webpage. www.unicef.org No matter when you retired you will find your own work reflected here in the continued efforts around the world of UNICEF in the service of children, including adolescents. You can drill down into UNICEF’s databases by country in a way that might only have been a dream at the time of the review of the World Summit for Children. https://www.unicef.org/research-and-reports
A child survival revolution has happened, attested to by ample evidence by country of the historic progress in reducing deaths of children under 5. Commitments by heads of state to monitor progress for children under 5 were once only a promise. If you would like to step back and look at long-term trends mining this data and exploring misunderstandings enjoy the book by Hans Rosling (2018) Factfulness.
UNICEF’s position today is stronger than ever when it comes to defending the rights of children and helping them reach their potential through adolescence. The new horizons are adolescent development and participation, with gender equality and a continuing emphasis on girls. https://www.unicef.org/adolescence/. Stay tuned for exciting developments on gender policy and the new adolescent strategy.
Ever present in our minds and hearts is UNICEF’s motto “We never give up”. Nowhere is that more painful, and the efforts of UNICEF staff more heroic, than in Syria, Palestine and Yemen. The world’s collective failure across generations to reach and protect children, making the world a safe place for them to grow, is starkly before us in this era of abundant resources.
Start with Fuad Kronfol’s comprehensive and expanding bibliography of reflections from your XUNICEF colleagues. Its extent and breadth are quite extraordinary, reflecting the continued dedication of many staff members, including Fuad himself, to the wellbeing of children. Your recent contributions have been added.
Are you looking for a recent book reflecting on UNICEF under Jim Grant’s leadership? Check out Adam Fifield’s (2015) A Mighty Purpose: How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving its Children. Let’s hear your take on his account.
If you are looking for the larger picture of the United Nations as a whole, its history aspirations and ideas, you need go no farther than Richard Jolly’s UN Ideas that Changed the World , co-authored with Louis Emmerij and Thomas Weiss, with a foreword by Kofi Annan.
For those who want to take a forward look or catch up with UNICEF today, there is much to inspire your summer. Start by taking a new look at the UNICEF webpage. www.unicef.org No matter when you retired you will find your own work reflected here in the continued efforts around the world of UNICEF in the service of children, including adolescents. You can drill down into UNICEF’s databases by country in a way that might only have been a dream at the time of the review of the World Summit for Children. https://www.unicef.org/research-and-reports
A child survival revolution has happened, attested to by ample evidence by country of the historic progress in reducing deaths of children under 5. Commitments by heads of state to monitor progress for children under 5 were once only a promise. If you would like to step back and look at long-term trends mining this data and exploring misunderstandings enjoy the book by Hans Rosling (2018) Factfulness.
UNICEF’s position today is stronger than ever when it comes to defending the rights of children and helping them reach their potential through adolescence. The new horizons are adolescent development and participation, with gender equality and a continuing emphasis on girls. https://www.unicef.org/adolescence/. Stay tuned for exciting developments on gender policy and the new adolescent strategy.
Ever present in our minds and hearts is UNICEF’s motto “We never give up”. Nowhere is that more painful, and the efforts of UNICEF staff more heroic, than in Syria, Palestine and Yemen. The world’s collective failure across generations to reach and protect children, making the world a safe place for them to grow, is starkly before us in this era of abundant resources.
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