UNICEF CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF MICS

8 September 2015

On 8 September 2015, the UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake, hosted a reception at UNICEF House in New York to celebrate the 20th anniversary of MICS.

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From left to right: Jeffrey O'Malley (Director of Division of Data, Research and Policy, UNICEF), Anthony Lake (UNICEF Executive Director), Attila Hancioglu (Global MICS Coordinator)

During the reception, which was attended by the UNICEF Board members and senior UNICEF staff, the MICS programme launched a number of special products to mark the occasion. 

Of these, a new publication was released to chart the history of the first MICS surveys and the evolution of MICS from a modest technical support system to a full-fledged household survey programme. The publication also lays the groundwork for MICS within the 2030 sustainable development agenda and examines the future potential roles of MICS.

 

 

 

At the reception, participants saw the debut of a short video that summarizes the MICS programme and its contribution to country and global monitoring. To support the video, a special infographic was developed and displayed at the event.

   20 years of MICS

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Additional features of the website were also launched, providing unprecedented access to the MICS journey, including up-to-date data on the survey programme’s implementation and current status of MICS.

Please visit our Year 20 pages to watch the video and experience the infographic, download the publication, navigate through an interactive timeline of the MICS journey, explore visualizations of important metadata on MICS, test your knowledge in the MICS quiz, familiarize yourself with MICS abbreviations and enjoy the MICS Museum.