Question

Consider the following statements and identify the functions of UNICEF:

1. Provide protective food like milk, meats, and fish to children.
2. Provide funds for training the personnel, including health and sanitation workers, teachers, and nutritionists.
3. Provide help to children and mothers in emergencies arising from natural calamities, civil strifes, and epidemics.
4. Provide technical supplies, equipment and other aids, ranging from paper for textbooks, to equipments and medicines to health clinics, to pipes and pumps for bringing clean water to villages .

• A. 1, 2, and 3 only
• B. 2 and 3 only
• C. 1, 2, 3 and 4
• D. 1, 3 and 4 only

Answer 1

The correct option is C 1, 2, 3 and 4

The main functions of UNICEF are broadly divided into the following categories:

• UNICEF works for the protection of children with respect to their survival, health, and well being. This is done in cooperation with individuals, civic groups, governments, and the private sector.
• It provides funds for training the personnel, including health and sanitation workers, teachers, and nutritionists.
• It provides technical supplies, equipment and other aids, ranging from paper for textbooks, to equipments and medicines to health clinics, to pipes and pumps for bringing clean water to villages.
• It assists governments to plan, develop and extend community-based services in the fields of maternal and child healths, nutrition, clean water and sanitation.
• It provides help to children and mothers in emergencies arising from natural calamities, civil strifes, and epidemics.
• It makes effort to prevent diseases like T.B., malaria, eye diseases, skin diseases, etc.
• UNICEF performs various other functions. As the sole agency for children, it speaks on behalf of children and upholds the Convention on the Rights of the Child and works for its implementation. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in the year 1965 and the Indira Gandhi Prize for peace in 1989.