Foundations
Looking for a partner to help you create meaningful change in the lives of children across the globe?
Looking to create positive impact for children through donations?
The Child and Youth Friendly Governance Project is looking for foundation partners seeking to invest in children’s healthy development and to ensure that they reach their full potential.
We also support foundations in integrating children’s and young people’s voices into their own decision-making and prioritisation of programs.
We offer
Tailored and collaborative project design and development.
Professional program implementation.
Effective and efficient use of resources.
Why child-friendly governance matters
By ignoring our youth, we are not providing fuel for our democracy.
2,75%
Parliamentarians who are under 30 years old globally
(Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union)
57%
Percentage of young people who do not vote regularly
(Source: International IDEA)
30%
Percentage of children as part of world population
(Source: UNICEF)
Seeking to apply a child-centred approach in the foundation’s decision-making?
We offer
Tailored advisory services to help you integrate children’s voices into the foundation’s decision-making.
Support on developing concepts or strategies for effective, meaningful, and safe consultations with children and young people.
Support on developing child safeguarding procedures and training adults working with children on how to keep children safe.
Training and capacity building on child rights and establishing and facilitating children’s and young people’s participation in an inclusive, safe, and meaningful manner.
You can count on us for
Provision of pictures and supporting informative material for your publications.
Reliable and transparent reporting and financial accounting.
Acknowledgement of our collaboration in our annual report and publications as relevant.
A track record of successful policy, strategy, and program development at scale for children in different socio-economic and political contexts.
Low overhead.