The Republic of Belarus has been a member of UNICEF since 1953. UNICEF Office in Minsk was opened in 1997. The Basic Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and UNICEF was signed in New York in December 2007. More than once Belarus has been a member of the governing body of UNICEF – its Executive Board.

Currently the cooperation between UNICEF and the Republic of Belarus is based on long-term 2016-2020 Country Programme. It is based on the national priorities of the Republic of Belarus in the field of social development, health care and education.

The priority areas include: enabling caring family and safe environment for every child; development and engagement of adolescents and young people, promotion of early childhood intervention and inclusion of children with disabilities, improvements of monitoring system and the quality of statistical data on children, knowledge generation and partnership.