Featured Publications
Forward Strong: Ensuring children remained safe, healthy, and able to learn during the COVID-19 pandemic
Publications
ChildFund Alliance
Publications
WeWorld Index 2022
Women and Children Breaking Barriers to Build the Future
- November 09, 2022
- by WeWorld
Ukraine Crisis Regional Response Update
- October 25, 2022
- by ChildFund
Counting Pennies 3
An analysis of official development assistance to end violence against children
- September 29, 2022
- by World Vision International in collaboration with partners
Strategies to End Violence against Children in a Changing Climate
- August 20, 2022
- by ChildFund Member Barnfonden
Featured Document
Ukraine Crisis Regional Response Plan
- March 18, 2022
- by ChildFund
Featured Document
Strategic Plan 2022-2025
Addressing Emerging Threats to Children’s Safety
- February 07, 2022
- by ChildFund Alliance
Child-Friendly Spaces Toolkit
- December 03, 2021
- by ChildFund International
Children's Right To Be Heard: We're Talking; Are You Listening?
- November 27, 2021
- by Joining Forces
WeWorld Index 2021
Women and Children in a Changing World: Focus on Climate Change
- November 09, 2021
- by WeWorld, Member of ChildFund Alliance
Exploring the link between climate change and violence against children
- November 01, 2021
- by ChildFund Member Barnfonden
Featured Document
Forward Strong: Ensuring children remained safe, healthy, and able to learn during the COVID-19 pandemic
- October 13, 2021
- by ChildFund Alliance
Strengthening Family Environments to Realize Children's Rights
- September 07, 2021
- by Joining Forces
Other Materials
Addressing Child Labour
Lessons Learned from ChildFund Interventions
- June 10, 2021
- by ChildFund Alliance
Prohibiting all Corporal Punishment of Children
- April 30, 2021
- by End Violence Against Children and Partners
Stuck in Time: 10 Years of War in Syria
- March 15, 2021
- by ChildFund Alliance Member WeWorld
Counting Pennies II: Analysis of official development assistance to end violence against children
- February 03, 2021
- by World Vision International and Partners
COVID-19 Technical Report: Schools are shut but learning is on!
Confinement and the new normality post COVID-19 explained by children from around the world
- September 03, 2020
- by Educo
COVID-19 Media Summary: Schools are shut but learning is on!
Confinement and the new normality post COVID-19 explained by children from around the world
- September 03, 2020
- by Educo
Joining Forces: Policy Brief
Ending Violence against Children and COVID-19
- July 01, 2020
- by Joining Forces
Forward Strong: ChildFund's COVID-19 Response Plan
- April 28, 2020
- by ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund Alliance Gender Equality Position Paper
- May 15, 2019
- by ChildFund Alliance
Small Voices, Big Dreams 2019
- September 04, 2019
- by ChildFund Alliance
In this new report by ChildFund Alliance, nearly 5,500 young people in 15 countries reveal their own perceptions about the dimensions of violence against children, including what they see as clear examples of violence, where they feel least safe, and who is most likely to protect them.
Unseen Unsafe: The Underinvestment in Ending Violence Against Children in the Pacific and Timor-Leste
- July 30, 2019
- by ChildFund Alliance
Unprotected: Crisis in Humanitarian Funding for Child Protection
- July 29, 2019
- by Save the Children on behalf of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
This report reveals substantial funding gaps for child protection that is leaving millions of children in humanitarian crises unprotected from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Building Momentum: A Call for Action to End Violence Against Children
- July 06, 2019
- by ChildFund Alliance
Building on ChildFund Alliance’s decades of experience in child protection programming, this paper describes a variety of the Alliance’s projects around the world that are working to end violence against children.
Early Learnings of PICMCA: A Promising New Approach to Preventing the Crisis of Child Migration in Central America
- April 02, 2019
- by ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund Japan 2017 Annual Report (Japanese)
- September 18, 2018
- by ChildFund Japan
Ending Violence Against Children in the Asia-Pacific
- July 10, 2018
- by ChildFund Australia
A National Health Crisis: Maternal Deaths in Papua New Guinea
- May 29, 2018
- by ChildFund Australia
ChildFund Australia reveals that PNG is one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a mother, where 1 in 120 women are losing their lives during pregnancy, compared to 1 in 9,000 in Australia.
ChildFund International Annual Report 2017
- May 21, 2018
- by ChildFund International
ChildFund Alliance Brochure 2018
- May 08, 2018
- by ChildFund Alliance
Pass It Back Newsletter Issue 2
- April 02, 2018
- by Pass It Back
ChildFund's Pass It Back project teaches children life skills through the sport of rugby.
Reports
Nepal Earthquake Response Report (2015-2017)
- November 30, 2017
- by ChildFund Japan
In the immediate aftermath of the two powerful earthquakes that struck Nepal in early 2015, ChildFund responded with emergency relief in the form of food, shelter and child-centered spaces. Over the following two years, ChildFund supported the rehabilitation of communities, rebuilding schools and providing supplies, ensuring safe water and hygiene, and providing livelihoods support to families. Overarching all programs was a commitment to child protection, and preparing for future emergencies.
Nepal earthquake response 2015-2017 report
Child-sensitive Social Protection
- November 01, 2017
- by Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
Poverty is a fundamental barrier to realizing the rights of all children, including targets of the Sustainable Development Goals to end preventable child deaths, ensure quality basic education for all children and protect children from all forms of violence.
Social protection is a basic human right for children, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children have the right to social security and an adequate standard of living, both of which can be guaranteed for children and families who live in poverty through publicly-funded social protection. At the same time, social protection is a key investment in building human capabilities, reducing financial barriers that families face in using basic services, and in breaking inter-generational poverty traps.
Putting Children First Communique
- October 31, 2017
- by Diana Quick
A Call to Identify Solutions and Take Action to Tackle Child Poverty and Inequality in Africa - final communique from Putting Children First conference, Addis Ababa, October 2017.
1-Tok Kaunselin Helpim Lain: A Report on the First Two Years of Operation in Papua New Guinea
GBV telephone hotline in Papua New Guinea
- October 04, 2017
- by ChildFund Papua New Guinea
ChildFund Deutschland Annual Report 2016
- July 14, 2017
- by Childfund Deutschland
Counting Pennies: A Review of Official Development Assistance to End Violence Against Children
- May 24, 2017
- by ChildFund Alliance, End Violence Against Children, Save the Children, SOS Children's Villages, UNICEF, World Vision and SRSG on Ending Violence against Children
For the first time, a review of official development assistance (ODA) to end violence against children has been done. The report "Counting Pennies: A review of official development assistance to end violence against children" found that in 2015, total ODA spending was $174 billion and of that, less than 0.6 percent was allocated to ending violence against children. This amounts to less than $0.65 per child in aid-receiving countries to end this scourge that affects more than one billion children every year.
Report & Related Items
Impact Stories
A Child Is a Child: Protecting Children on the Move From Violence, Abuse and Exploitation
- May 18, 2017
- by UNICEF
Millions of children are on the move across international borders – fleeing violence and conflict, disaster or poverty, in pursuit of a better life. Hundreds of thousands move on their own. When they encounter few opportunities to move legally, children resort to dangerous routes and engage smugglers to help them cross borders. Serious gaps in the laws, policies and services meant to protect children on the move further leave them bereft of protection
and care. Deprived, unprotected, and often alone, children on the move can become easy prey for traffickers and others who abuse and exploit them.
Lost in Migration: Working Together in Protecting Children From Disappearance
- March 06, 2017
- by Missing Children Europe and The President's Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society
ChildFund Alliance is one of more than 45 child rights organizations that have supported in drafting and have endorsed the Conclusions of the Lost in Migration conference. These conclusions have been shared with EU Ministers, Commissioners and Heads of State.
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction for Children (Japanese)
Child-friendly version
- February 15, 2017
- by Children in a Changing Climate Coalition
The Children in a Changing Climate coalition, of which ChildFund Alliance is a member, developed a child-friendly version of this landmark agreement on disaster risk reduction (DRR). This child-friendly version is in Japanese.
Our Ambition for Children: ChildFund International Annual Report 2016
- February 10, 2017
- by ChildFund International
ChildFund International is the U.S. member of ChildFund Alliance. This report covers its activities in 2016.
The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children
- January 26, 2017
- by UNICEF
This locally driven research analyses how institutional, community, interpersonal and individual factors interact to affect violence in children’s lives.
ChildFund Vietnam Country Report 2015/2016
- January 24, 2017
- by ChildFund Vietnam
ChildFund Vietnam is a representative office of ChildFund Australia. ChildFund began working in Vietnam in 1995 and operates community development programs in the areas of education, water and sanitation, sustainable livelihoods, child rights and child protection, food security, and maternal and child health, including HIV prevention. With a strong focus on building the resilience of young people, ChildFund also gives children and youth the opportunity to take part in sports, vocational and life skills education, and supports their participation in local decision-making processes.
ChildFund Papua New Guinea Country Report 2015/2016
- January 24, 2017
- by ChildFund Papua New Guinea
ChildFund Papua New Guinea is a representative office of ChildFund Australia. ChildFund began work in Papua New Guinea in 1994, and undertakes child-focused community development programs in Central Province and the National Capital District. Key programs are implemented in the areas of maternal and child health, including nutrition, and water and sanitation, education through the Child-Friendly Schools framework, protection and resilience against family and sexual violence, and disaster and child protection. ChildFund PNG has established a Family and Sexual Violence Counselling Hotline which operates in Port Moresby and provides national coverage.
ChildFund Myanmar Country Report 2015/2016
- January 24, 2017
- by ChildFund Myanmar
ChildFund Myanmar is a representative office of ChildFund Australia. ChildFund Australia began working in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) in 2012, following the country’s shift from decades of military rule to a newly elected government. Child-focused development programs are being delivered in a partnership approach working with local groups and organizations, focusing on the areas of child protection, education, sustainable livelihoods, water and sanitation, health and HIV and AIDS.
ChildFund Laos Country Report 2015/2016
- January 24, 2017
- by ChildFund Laos
ChildFund Laos is a representative office of ChildFund Australia. ChildFund began work in Laos in 2010, implementing community development programs in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the poorest areas in the country. ChildFund has a strong focus on improving access to quality education, and is expanding its work to include pre-primary education to ensure that children get the best possible start in life. In partnership with communities, ChildFund has also established projects to improve water, sanitation and hygiene, mother and child heath, food security and nutrition, and to provide opportunities for children and youth to participate in local decision-making. ChildFund has a strong focus on protection, child rights, and developing life-skills through tools including sport and multimedia.
ChildFund Cambodia Country Report 2015/2016
- January 24, 2017
- by ChildFund Cambodia
ChildFund Cambodia is a representative office of ChildFund Australia. ChildFund began work in Cambodia in 2007, and works in partnership with children, their communities and local partners to create lasting change, while responding to humanitarian emergencies and promoting children’s rights. We implement a range of programs at national and sub-national levels focusing on the rights of children and their families in the areas of child protection and resilience, education, sustainable livelihoods, local governance, nutrition, safe migration, water and sanitation, and youth empowerment.
CEDAW for Youth
- December 20, 2016
- by UN Women
CEDAW for Youth is a youth-friendly version of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. It was authored by a young woman and young man.
Downloads
Small Voices, Big Dreams 2016
The Right to Safe, Meaningful Education
- November 14, 2016
- by ChildFund Alliance
When ChildFund Alliance set out to survey children around the world about their views on school and education, we expected them to tell us that going to school is important. We were thrilled when a definitive 98% of the 6,000-plus 10- to 12-year-olds we talked to said that education is, indeed, important to them.
Downloads & Related Items
Preventing Violence Against Children Attitudes, Perceptions & Priorities
- October 27, 2016
- by ChildFund Alliance, World Vision International
ChildFund Alliance and World Vision International commissioned Ipsos Reid to ask a question on the need to prioritize the prevention of violence against children at the global level. Support was unambiguous, with 93% of the 11,000 respondents stating that preventing violence against children should be a global priority.
Strategic Plan Powerpoint
- September 14, 2016
- by ChildFund Alliance
Toward a Safe World for Children: Five-Year Strategic Plan 2016-2021
- September 14, 2016
- by ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund International Impact Report on Child Protection
- September 06, 2016
- by ChildFund International
Tuberculosis: The Cruel Scourge for Children in Papua New Guinea
- August 03, 2016
- by ChildFund Australia
Realising Children’s Rights in a Changing Climate
- December 01, 2015
- by Children in a Changing Climate Coalition
As world leaders gather in Paris for the 21st Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), the Children in a Changing Climate coalition, of which ChildFund Alliance is a member, puts forward a set of recommendations for child-centred climate change adaptation.
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction for Children
Child-friendly version
- December 01, 2015
- by Children in a Changing Climate Coalition
The Children in a Changing Climate coalition, of which ChildFund Alliance is a member, developed a child-friendly version of this landmark agreement on disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Small Voices, Big Dreams 2015
- November 10, 2015
- by ChildFund Alliance
As part of our Small Voices, Big Dreams initiative, and on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ChildFund Alliance reached out to over 6,000 children to ask them about their views on children's rights.
A Matter of Life and Death: Protecting children during and after emergencies is a matter of life and death
- October 13, 2015
- by Child Protection Working Group
A report from the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), with ChildFund Alliance, outlining the various reasons why protecting children from violence and exploitation is a life-saving intervention during and after emergencies, and should be prioritized for funding in all humanitarian crises.
Downloads
Putting Children at the Heart of the World Humanitarian Summit
- July 30, 2015
- by ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children's Villages International, War Child, World Vision International
ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International, War Child, and World Vision’s report to ensure that children’s perspectives are considered, and their priorities and recommendations are reflected in the outcomes of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), which will take place on May 23-24, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Downloads
A Life of Never Giving Up: Stories from Nonghet
- July 20, 2015
- by ChildFund Laos
Accountability for the Post-2015 Targets on Violence against Children
- March 12, 2015
- by ChildFund Alliance, Save the Children
Joint paper from ChildFund Alliance and Save the Children on accountability for the targets on violence against children.
Downloads
If Not Now, When: Ending Violence Against the World's Children
- October 20, 2014
- by David Steven, NYU Center on International Cooperation
Ending Violence Against Children: Six Strategies for Action
- October 09, 2014
- by UNICEF
The Free Charters
- October 08, 2014
- by ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund Alliance consulted with over 2,300 children in 40 countries and asked them about their priorities for the post-2015 agenda. In their "free charters" to world leaders they ask for the MDGs to be fulfilled and for violence against children to be added as a new global priority.
Violence and Exploitation Against Children in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
- September 25, 2014
- by ChildFund Alliance
Childfund Alliance’s advocacy paper on post-2015 targets and indicators on violence and exploitation against children.
Recapturing the Vision of ‘A World Fit for Children’ and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- September 23, 2014
- by ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children's Villages International, UNICEF, World Vision International
Updated joint position paper on the post-2015 development agenda from ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children's Villages International, UNICEF and World Vision International.
Children Speak About Being Free from Violence and Exploitation
- July 15, 2014
- by ChildFund Alliance
In a study of the views of children on the issues of violence and exploitation, ChildFund Alliance conducted over 50 focus groups in 41 countries so that their voices can be heard as part of the post 2015-agenda.
The children cited the top three things they want world leaders to do – raise awareness of the issues, enact laws and punish offenders – as well as give examples of the worst forms of violence and exploitation.
Downloads
Raising Understanding among Children and Young People on the OPSC
- November 21, 2013
- by SRSG on Violence against Children
Toward a World Free From Violence Global Survey on Violence Against Children
- October 17, 2013
- by SRSG on Violence against Children
Stop Violence Against Women and Children in Papau New Guinea
- August 03, 2013
- by ChildFund Alliance, ChildFund Australia
A Journey of Togetherness: The Emergency Relief and Restoration Project Report for the Great East Japan Earthquake
- April 30, 2013
- by ChildFund Japan
ChildFund Alliance responds to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan
Voices of Girls and Boys in Shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- April 04, 2013
- by ChildFund Alliance
In formulating the post-2015 development agenda, it is imperative that the voices of the next generation are heard and listened to. ChildFund Alliance asked child-led organizations from seven countries to choose their top 6 priorities for a better world.
Tools/Guidelines
A World Free from Child Poverty: A guide to the tasks to achieve the vision
- July 21, 2017
- by Diana Quick
A world free from child poverty: A guide to the tasks to achieve the vision is an attempt to harness our knowledge and experience to support national processes to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 on Ending Poverty, which includes children explicitly for the first time in global poverty goals and, in doing so, support all the SDGs which are so crucial to the realization of children’s rights.
Keeping Children Safe
Child Safeguarding Policy Guidelines
- June 05, 2017
- by Diana Quick
The child safeguarding policy guidelines set forth our core values and commitments to children in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. These values and commitments define ChildFund’s collective identity, establish our accountability, require adherence to the highest standards and promote an organizational environment supportive of our work to ensure children’s protection, rights and well-being.
Child-Friendly Accountability in the Context of Target 16.2 of the SDGs: Recommended Methodology
- January 19, 2017
- by Diana Quick
ChildFund Alliance’s Child-friendly Accountability initiative aims to improve the child protection system at the local, regional and national level. It will ensure that children and youth are able to monitor and improve local protection systems by building their knowledge, supporting them in identifying protection gaps and facilitating direct action or advocacy with their communities to address these gaps.
Child-Friendly Accountability in the Context of Target 16.2 of the SDGs
- Child-friendly accountability methodology - FULL REPORT, English
- Child-friendly accountability - Executive summary, English
- Hacia un mundo seguro para la ninez_Medodologia
- Hacia un mundo seguro para la ninez_Medodologia - resumen ejecutivo
- 「子どもにやさしいアカウンタビリティ」- Executive summary, Japanese
- 어린이들이 안전 한 세상 : SDG 16.2 맥락에서 보는 아동 - Executive summary, Korean
- Rendición de cuentas adaptada a la infancia - Executive summary, Spanish
Piloting Child-friendly Accountability Infographics
Hidden in Plain Sight
A Statistical Analysis of Violence Against Children
- October 27, 2016
- by UNICEF
A Handbook on Planning Children and Youth’s Protection Through the Area Strategic Planning Process
- November 01, 2017
- by ChildFund International
The following three e-learning modules are designed to help ChildFund staff to strengthen their programs using methods that promote child and youth protection through an approach that is consistent with ChildFund’s Strategy and programming approach
Infographics
INSPIRE
- March 09, 2017
- by World Health Organization
Postcard on SDGs
- May 06, 2016
- by ChildFund International
Research Papers
La Participación Infantil como Pilar Esencial en la Construcción de Sociedades Libres de Violencia contra Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes
- March 28, 2017
- by EDUCO
Este artículo defiende la importancia de proteger a las NNA a través de la participación infantil, y avanza en la operativización de esta propuesta a través de la presentación de un embrión de marco de acción que facilite la integración del concepto de participación infantil en el conjunto de estrategias que persiguen avanzar en la erradicación de la violencia hacia las NNA.
El dinero importa: Seis lecciones de inversión en la protección de la infancia contra la violencia
- June 24, 2015
- by ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund Alliance's advocacy paper on six lessons for investing in the protection of children from violence, ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa, July 13th-16th, 2015).
Money Matters: Six Lessons on Investing in the Protection of Children from Violence
- June 24, 2015
- by ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund Alliance's advocacy paper on six lessons for investing in the protection of children from violence, ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa, July 13th-16th, 2015).
The Costs and Economic Impact of Violence Against Children
- September 02, 2014
- by ODI, ChildFund Alliance
In a study commissioned by ChildFund Alliance, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) estimates the costs of physical, psychological and sexual violence against children at between $3 trillion and US$7 trillion dollars.