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ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence Against Children, UNICEF and World Vision
In 2015, the world’s leaders listed violence against children as one of the top priorities in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, thus acknowledging its serious impact on the health, education and long-term wellbeing of children and societies. Since then, an increasing number of countries have committed to accelerate progress in ending violence against children. More than 30 nations have become pathfinding countries under the auspices of the End Violence Partnership, committing to scale-up investment and efforts towards achieving ending-violence-related SDG targets. INSPIRE – a technical package of seven evidence-based strategies to end violence against children – was developed to support national investments and actions to fulfil this commitment. Despite these developments, progress has been insufficient. Last Global Status Report on Preventing Violence against Children indicates, much is left to be done – especially in investment in proven solutions in ending violence against children, such as those highlighted in INSPIRE.
The outbreak of COVID-19 and crisis posed new challenges increasing the number of children need of protection from violence. Two years since the outbreak and economic crisis looming across the globe, the threat of violence is not likely to disappear. A primary concern remains of policymakers and practitioners remains the significant gap in investment to end violence against children by donors and national governments.
Over the past few years, a group of partner organizations came together to explore the issue of financing for ending violence against children given the critically low investment in this sector . The group has started its work focusing on the ODA investment and has progressed to focus more on the development of the economic case and the need to prioritise investment in ending violence against children against the increasing fiscal austerity.
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