UNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children

The Unicef USA Impact Fund for Children operates and administers the bridge Fund, which is a debt Fund used to fast-track critical funding to the field to eliminate cash gaps and provide uninterrupted and expedited access to critical programs for Children on time. It was created so that Unicef can complete immunization campaigns and deliver educational, health, and nutritional supplies to vulnerable Children on time, and fast-track emergency relief to desperate families just days after a natural disaster. It does this by providing funds in anticipation of donor or multilateral funding for Unicef development programs, procurement of supplies, and humanitarian emergency response.the Unicef USA Impact Fund for Children operates and administers the bridge Fund, which is a debt Fund used to fast-track critical funding to the field to eliminate cash gaps and provide uninterrupted and expedited access to critical programs for Children on time. It was created so that Unicef can complete immunization campaigns and deliver educational, health, and nutritional supplies to vulnerable Children on time, and fast-track emergency relief to desperate families just days after a natural disaster. It does this by providing funds in anticipation of donor or multilateral funding for Unicef development programs, procurement of supplies, and humanitarian emergency response.impact highlights from fy22: the Impact Fund for Children recognized $76.8m in grants to Unicef and other ngos in fy22 across Unicef's humanitarian emergency response efforts, critical development programming, and procurement of essential health supplies and vaccines. This figure does not include additional funding that was fast-tracked and turned multiple times by Unicef. Emergency response initiatives included $19.1m accelerated for provision of the most urgent, lifesaving support for Children and their families affected by the escalating war in ukraine, including safe water, health care, and protection; $9.1m accelerated to provide essential supplies such as nutrition treatments and medicine, wash infrastructure, and education support in response to the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan; $4.8m accelerated to enable equitable and on-time distribution of covid-19 supplies to low-income countries; and $500,000 accelerated to help haitian Children resume education after a destructive earthquake.development programming initiatives included $381,000 accelerated to enable uninterrupted and rapid implementation of a global health and advocacy communications program aimed at ensuring equitable access to health services; $127,000 accelerated for the rapid delivery of packages with tools and supplies supporting mental health for adolescents; and $31,980 accelerated at critical time for advocacy campaigns carried out by Unicef canada focused on eliminating child mortality from wasting.procurement of essential supplies included $30m accelerated to ensure sufficient stocks of novel monovalent oral polio vaccine type 2 (nopv2), the newest and most promising polio vaccine, with over 600m doses targeting approximately 465m Children; and $10m invested in Unicef supply division's vaccine independence initiative, which enabled $25.8m in Impact in fy22 through the procurement of essential vaccines and covid-19 related supplies.