National governance and infrastructures supporting children and young people’s collective participation in public decision-making.

This Guidance Note provides specific recommendations to Member States on how to include children’s rights, including children’s participation, in VNRs at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). It follows the general structure of the Secretary-General’s updated voluntary common reporting guidelines for VNRs2 (the Guidelines), which were most recently updated in November 2019. It also provides examples of good practices from other VNRs from 2017-2019. In line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this paper defines “children” as people below the age of 18.

Salome, a 17-year-old advocate with World Vision’s ENOUGH campaign, urges leaders at the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris to urgently transform food systems to end child hunger and malnutrition, with children and young people as the driving force for change.

The National Director's speech highlights the launch of Lesotho's child-friendly courts, a milestone in ensuring justice and protection for every child.

Table Blessing, by Rosie Hilditch

World Vision's social accountability approach, Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), equips communities to hold their own governments accountable for the promises they make. CVA works by educating citizens about their rights and equipping them to advocate for improvements to basic services. World Vision Malawi celebrates impact through the booklet.

This article highlights some of the advocacy activities carried out by children in Kasaï Central during the Global School Feeding Week. Despite being affected by malnutrition, the province benefits from a large-scale school feeding program by World Vision that helps reduce malnutrition cases and ensures food security for students in the beneficiary schools.

Sunischita, a young advocate with World Vision’s ENOUGH campaign urged leaders at the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris to listen to the concerns of children and young people and act now to end child hunger and malnutrition.

Empowered Worldview has led to statistically significant improvements in measures of hope, self-efficacy and self-reliance. It has also led to statistically significant improvements in rates of child well-being as measured by stunting. Empowered Worldview is likely to have a significant multiplier effect on child well-being as measured by stunting. The impact of EWV is greater in households where other indicators, addressed by other World Vision programs, are more positive. Factors that increase the positive impact of EWV on child well-being include the availability of food, access to health services, mothers’ own health and good child feeding practices.

World Vision’s climate action policy, response, and recommendations to support vulnerable children, families, and communities globally.