Kathrine Flaate

The Political Declaration on NCDs & Mental Health has been adopted. 🎉 This is a crucial step toward putting children and young people at the center of prevention, care, and support efforts. Now is the time to drive lasting change #ForEveryChild's health and well-being.

Mental health support in crisis isn’t optional—it’s life-saving. 🌍  Discover how EASE equips 10–15-year-olds with tools to manage stress, anxiety & depression. Hear @UNICEF’s Dr. Zeinab Hijazi on ‘Evidence from the Frontline’: mhpsshub.org/resource/evide…  #MentalHealth

It’s been a marathon of meetings in New York with world leaders, public and private partners, and civil society, to put the rights of children at the heart of the global agenda–to keep children safe, protected, healthy and educated. #UNGA

How it started vs. How it’s going   UNICEF Deputy Executive Director @KittyvdHeijden met with @unicef Youth Advocates from around the world to discuss their ideas to build a better future for children.   #OurCommonFuture #GlobalGoals #UNGA

"Mental health is as essential as physical health,” said one of the 37 passionate advocates who participated at the @UNICEFZambia’s #MentalHealth Changemaker workshop in #Lusaka. “Voices can be heard, & they must be echoed", added another. 🎧Voices of Changemakers

Let's give them a childhood filled with love, safety, and education so they may build a better future. #BuildingABetterWorld #futurecitizens

#ClimateActionNow 📣Have a message for world leaders at #COP28?! Let's take climate action. Make your voice heard by sending “COP28” at: Messenger: bit.ly/COP28FB WhatsApp: bit.ly/COP28WA

Everyone is affected by climate change, and the younger generation will feel most of its effects. 40 #ChangeMakers participated in a @UNICEF Youth Advocacy Training on Climate Change with @wwfzambia 👇Meet some of the young activists in #Zambia #ClimateAction ☀️🌡🌊🌧🌪❄️

✨UNICEF Zambia receives the global #UNICEFInspireAward 2023 for the Changemaker Initiative that empowers #Zambian youths to #advocate for their causes. 🤝🏾 We appreciate the young people who participated and continue to support their causes.

"I now see that we have a lot to do before 2030 & I pledge to pass on the information starting with my siblings at home," Sandra (20) W/ @UNICEF , youth build their skills and create water and environmental advocacy materials. #ClimateAction Full story bit.ly/3Nygs8w

"As more children get online in #Africa and across the world, we need a safe digital space where the rights of every child are respected" - @unicefchief #Lusaka🇿🇲| Symposium on Children's Rights in the Digital Environment. ED Russell's #DAC2023 message👇🏽 bit.ly/3qFHeE2

Our teams trained 16 young digital influencers in #Advocacy & #DigitalStorytelling for #WASH. These champions are now raising awareness on the #UNSDGs. Celebrating the cause here with our Deputy Representative @MaltiGandhi, we at @UNICEFZambia are proud of them! #ClimateAction

An important step has been taken today to protect children in Zambia! @MCDSS_ZAMBIA has launched the Child Safeguarding Framework with support from UNICEF and Save the Children International. #ChildSafeGuarding #EndViolenceAgainstChildren @SaveChildrenZM @FCDOGovUK @UKaid

Each organization working with children must have a Child Safeguarding Focal Point in place, according to the newly launched National Safeguarding Framework. #ChildSafeGuarding #EndViolenceAgainstChildren @MCDSS_ZAMBIA @SaveChildrenZM @FCDOGovUK @UKAid

Pleased to join Min. of Youth PS @KangwaChilesh12 in interacting with 40 youth --part of 100 from #Zambia virtually participating in the ECOSOC 2023 Youth Forum—really inclusive with young people with disabilities and young refugees- adding their voice in support of the #SDGs.

We are LIVE NOW at the @UNECOSOC #Youth2030 Forum: linktr.ee/ecosocyouthfor… Tune in to hear from young people on how to mobilize progress for the #GlobalGoals with & for youth, and join the conversation online using this filter 🤳 instagram.com/ar/77396141414… @undesa @UNMGCY @icmyo

"I feel more equipped with knowledge & important tools like why is it important to have an advocacy goal & how to set one” ~Jimmy Youth Advocates Wilson & charity facilitated a Advocacy Training to equip young people with the tools &knowledge to champion positive change. #Zambia

“The future is going to be so much brighter because you are going to make it!”~ @KGeorgieva, Managing Director of IMF interacting with children at Matipula Primary & Secondary school in Chongwe District, #Zambia @mofnpzambia @IMFNews @UNICEFEducation @MohamedFall @unicefchief

Children should be allowed to be active advocates of their own rights, because adolescents & young people are the fastest growing demographic in the population of countries in Southern #Africa. #WorldChildrensDay #ForEveryChild