DHAKA: Urgent action is needed to reach the benefits of innovation to millions of children through new global networks of connectivity and collaboration, says a release.

UNICEF released the report titled ‘The State of the World’s Children Report--Reimagine the future: Innovation for every child’ on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child.

The report calls on governments, development professionals, businesses, activists and communities to work together to drive new ideas for tackling some of the most pressing problems facing children.

It also emphasized on finding new ways of scaling up the best and most promising local innovations.

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said, “For innovation to benefit every child, we have to be more innovative – rethinking the way we foster and fuel new ideas to solve our oldest problems.”

The UNICEF boss said, “The best solutions will come from new problem solving networks and communities of innovation that cross borders and cross sectors to reach the hardest to reach – and they will come from young people, adolescents and children themselves.”

BDST: 2115 HRS, NOV 20, 2014