Assessment of UNICEF's Contribution to UN Reform and its Impact on UNICEF in the Humanitarian Sector

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) commissioned this review of its engagement in UN reform in the humanitarian sector to provide an assessment of the manner and extent to which UNICEF has contributed to the reform process, and in so doing benefited the larger humanitarian system. The goal of the exercise was to provide a basis for the organization to strategize on how to structure its contributions going forward to best serve the interests of the organization and the broader system to achieve the maximum benefit to children.

Overall, UNICEF’s engagement in the mechanisms and processes of UN reform in the humanitarian sphere and its commitment and contribution to strengthening and harmonizing international humanitarian action can be broadly characterized as follows:

Consistent

Principled

Extensive

Advantageous