Innovation accelerating change for the most disadvantaged children by using new and different approaches to development for UniCef, innovation means doing our work in a different way that adds value to children’s lives. innovation is not a value in itself but, rather, a new approach to solving difficult problems. UniCef has a long history of supporting innovation for children. We have pioneered and collaborated on solutions such as the Mark ii handpump (to improve access to safe water) and ready-to-use therapeutic food (to treat severe A child receives ready-to-use acute malnutrition). and we found new ways of working with governments and therapeutic food as part of a other partners to increase global immunization rates of children under age 5, from package of services for the 20 per cent to 76 per cent, in a single decade (1980–1990). treatment of malnutrition, in The evolving challenges now facing the world’s children – from disease outbreaks Somalia. to the migrant and refugee crisis, to the situation of millions of out-of-school © UNICEF/UNI201564/Rich children – have one thing in common: the great speed at which they are disrupting young lives. Meeting these challenges means, yet again, reinventing our ways of A woman is photographed for working. it means being agile and adaptable in how we build solutions. it means the Rapid Family Tracing and looking towards new partnerships – including collaborations with companies that Reunification mobile phone might not be our traditional partners, and with young people themselves. application in the Nyarugusu refugee camp, in Kigoma Region, in an increasingly connected world, more and more people are accessing basic Burundi. information services. as a result, the global drive for new solutions is engaging more and more young people not only as beneficiaries of solutions but also as © UNICEF/UNI188792/Beechey problem-solvers in their own right. The STaTe of The World’S Children 2016 94