Despite significant efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that have been made since 2015, progress for children in recent years has stalled, been reversed, or has been insufficient in many countries and for millions of children. This UNICEF policy solutions report presents the evidence for a set of policies that have shown to generate important results across multiple children’s outcomes. These include child benefits, immunization, quality secondary education for girls, and early childhood nutrition and development programmes. 

Shifting Norms and Values to Prevent Violence Against Children

Case studies from Peru, Cambodia and DRC provide lessons on how income support can contribute to keeping children safe.

These guidelines have been written to guide donors and partners through the process of gathering information, making the decision to divest, securing buy-in internally for divestment, engaging with partners and stakeholders, developing a divestment plan, communicating that plan, and addressing any child safety concerns.

ISPCAN SWEDEN2024 brings together the brightest minds in child protection from every sector to innovate and share best practices.  Join us to keep pushing the boundaries of research and practice to ensure that all children have the chance to thrive no matter what their experience.

This commentary discusses the limitations of the current Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research and the need to also consider social and methodological aspects of adversity. The importance of considering protective factors is also discussed.

This article explores the opportunities social workers have to involve care-experienced individuals in participatory training and academic opportunities by sharing the stories of two young women with care experience who were attending the University of Rome.

This webinar showcases global approaches to creating safe environments and communities. Speakers focused on the lessons learned, challenges, adaptations and key ingredients of successful interventions.

This seminar unpacks lessons learnt from successful interventions that build safe environments for children.

The recent WHO/UNICEF Global Report on Children with Developmental Disabilities provides new impetus for transforming policies, programs, and services to better meet the needs and rights of young children with developmental disabilities and their families. Country exemplars of inclusive early childhood development (IECD) will be presented to promote these transformations and foster donor commitments to young children with developmental disabilities as we strive to reach SDG goals and leave no one behind.