Our 2023 Annual Report is here🆕 Together, with our partners, we continue to help lay the foundations for a world where every child can flourish in a healthy, fair and safe environment🌎 The world is facing intersecting crises which need us to work collaboratively across sectors and geographies. At CIFF we work with our partners to deliver bold and systemic change. Although more action is needed, we are proud of the progress we are making. Read more about the partners featured in this video below. Explore and download the report to learn more about our partners vital work ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ebYCzfRf --------------------------------------------------------------------------- More detail about our partners featured in this video: - MSI Reproductive Choices - a global sexual and reproductive healthcare provider, delivering and advocating for contraception and abortion across 36 countries and six continents. - The Child Nutrition Fund with UNICEF - helps detect, prevent and treat child wasting, a severe form of malnutrition, to help provide life-saving nutrition to children around the world. - Ujamaa Africa - leading the first country-wide scale up of a gender based violence prevention programme across Kenya. - The ARISE programme with The END Fund in Burkina Faso - aims to close out the country-wide hydrocele and lymphedema elimination criteria in support of their 2028 LF elimination target. - Jhpiego - through partnerships in 40 countries, Jhpiego works to ensure mothers and babies receive high quality health care to survive and thrive. - CAMFED - Campaign for Female Education — supports girls in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe to learn, thrive and become change leaders in their communities and beyond. - National Skill Development Corporation - India's first, and world's largest impact bond in skilling, the Skill Impact Bond in Partnership with the National Skill Development Corporation aims to bring transformative change in the skilling ecosystem, especially for women; by shifting the focus from outputs such as enrolment towards outcomes such as long-term job retention - Food4Education – an African led school feeding programme working at scale towards a vision where no child has to learn on an empty stomach.
Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
Philanthropic Fundraising Services
We're working with partners to transform the lives of children and adolescents in developing countries
About us
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is an independent philanthropic organisation, with offices in Addis Ababa, Beijing, London, Nairobi and New Delhi. CIFF works with a wide range of partners seeking to transform and empower the lives of children in developing countries, with the ultimate goal of solving seemingly intractable challenges to ensure all children have the chance to survive and thrive. CIFF aims to play a catalytic role as a funder and influencer to deliver urgent and systemic change at scale. Areas of work include empowering adolescents to control their sexual and reproductive health and to avoid unwanted pregnancies and HIV/AIDS; improving children and mothers’ health and nutrition and increasing deworming efforts to break transmission for good; and seeking an equitable world for girls and young women. CIFF’s climate portfolio is driven by a vision of a climate-safe future for today’s children and future generations that also bears the benefits of cleaner air, energy security and sustainable jobs. CIFF’s child protection work focuses on ending child labour and sexual exploitation by enabling an environment that reduces vulnerability of communities and safeguards children. The Foundation places significant emphasis on quality data and evidence. For most of its grants, CIFF works with partners to measure and evaluate progress to achieve large-scale and sustainable impact. The organisation is committed to sharing as much information as possible about what they and their partners are learning. Founded in 2002, CIFF employs over 130 professionals in China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and the UK. CIFF strives to couple business acumen and principles with development experience and best practices to transform the landscape for children. It seeks to be the gold standard in grant making and foundation operations. For more information please visit www.ciff.org
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http://www.ciff.org
External link for Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
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- Philanthropy, Investment, Measurement and Evaluation, Climate Change, Children's Health, International Development, De-worming, Severe Acute Malnutrition, Adolescent Sexual Health, Policy and Advocacy, Campaigning, Climate Mitigation, Grant Management, Global Health, Programme Management, Early Childhood Development, Child Protection, and Impact investing
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Jon Amouyal
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Bill Gourlay
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Sonia Medina
Chief Ecosystem Development Officer & Executive Director, Climate Program at Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
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Jasper Teulings
Director Strategic Litigation at CIFF Climate
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Protecting our children should be at the top of every government agenda across the world 🌎 Last week CIFF’s CEO, Kate Hampton, spoke at a panel event to launch the 100-day countdown to the first Global Ministerial to End Violence against Children, expressing the need for collective action to address violence against children – particularly on borderless issues such as online harms. Joined by friends and partners; Jon Higham (Policy Director for Online Safety at Ofcom), Baroness Joanna Shields (Board Chair and technology expert for WeProtect Global Alliance ) and Will Gargett (voice of online youth for the NSPCC), the panel was also moderated by Iain Drennan (Executive Director of WeProtect Global Alliance) and Marija Manojlovic (Executive Director of Safe Online). This impassioned discussion gave serious insight into what needs to happen for us to accelerate positive momentum across this space. While many issues are often prioritised over ending violence against children, we may be at the beginning of a wave of progress. This first Ministerial dedicated to Ending Violence Against Children is an extraordinary opportunity. We must make sure the voices of young people and survivors are heard – and we must ensure Governments recognise the urgent need for action. During the event Brave Movement also launched their new film “#BeyondTheScreen: Hidden Voices of Online Abuse,” Watch here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dZKYYcX5
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Announced today at #AIDS2024: CIFF is working with The Global Fund to expand access to PrEP rings through a new $2 million initiative. These rings are designed to help reduce women’s likelihood of acquiring HIV during vaginal sex - and have the potential to have a revolutionary impact. “The PrEP ring gives women and girls a discrete option that is entirely within their control,” said Miles Kemplay, Executive Director, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), CIFF. “For too long price points have made this option inaccessible – this partnership is the first step in making the market more sustainable and increasing access for those who need it.” https://lnkd.in/e7rFdZdi
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This #YouthSkillsDay, we celebrate the Skill Impact Bond’s training partners who are transforming thousands of lives by equipping youth across India with skills needed to enter the workforce! Field visits to training partners Learnet Skills Limited, Magic Bus India Foundation, and PanIIT Alumni India Foundation showed us how the Skill Impact Bond is empowering their teams to be creative and innovative to ensure young people are set up for success not just in the short-term, but for life. Karthik Srinivasan Barbara Bedike Bharath Visweswariah Anushree Parekh Nitya Daryanani Sai Rama Barkat Kamili @Abhishek Singh @Dheeraj Kumar Kalyan T Chakravarthy Chittaranjan Samantaray Jayant Rastogi aarthi singh Shruthi Rajput National Skill Development Corporation Michael & Susan Dell Foundation HSBC India Dubai Cares British Asian Trust USAID - US Agency for International Development Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Oxford Policy Management Dalberg Magic Bus India Foundation Learnet Skills Limited PanIIT Alumni India
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Nikita Srivastav, Manager of SRHR at CIFF, spoke at FP2030 in the Philippines about 'Private Sector Engagement: Galvanising Partnerships to Expand Access and Choice'. She highlighted how CIFF works across sectors to strengthen access to safe and quality family planning services. This effort aligns with the government's #FP2030 vision of fostering an ecosystem that collaboratively enhances access and provides more choices for women. Emphasizing the positives of investing in family planning for women, she explained how it can generate a ripple effect in society that empowers them economically, enhances their overall well-being, and contributes to improved outcomes for populations.
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🎯 What did the Skill Impact Bond – India's first and largest impact bond for employment outcomes – set out to achieve when it was launched? 👉🏽 Swipe to learn about how the programme is living up to its promise and bringing transformative change to the skilling ecosystem. #SkillImpactBond #employment #India #impact National Skill Development Corporation, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, India, Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) JSW Foundation, HSBC India, Dubai Cares, USAID, FCDO Services India, Oxford Policy Management, Dalberg, British Asian Trust
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Today marks two years since the launch of the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)! Thanks to all amazing partners who have endorsed helping to mobilise political will, resources and action to #BeatNTDs! Thanks to the Government of Rwanda for their incredible leadership with the Declaration, hosting the Kigali Summit on Malaria and NTDs in 2022, mobilising leaders, and being the first country in Africa to enter its domestic investments into the Commitment Tracker. We continue to welcome endorsements and commitments for the Kigali Declaration from governments, pharmaceutical companies, NGOs and other partners. Find out how to endorse on our website: https://bit.ly/4c99stG By taking action, together we can #UniteActEliminate to #BeatNTDs!
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We’re thrilled that today, Climate Arc has launched #TransitionArc - a one-stop #ClimateFinance tool to assess corporate transitions on climate goals 🌎 The global #ClimateTransition is a collaborative effort, and what companies do or don’t do matters to all of us. Accelerating corporate transition is a goal we share across the climate finance ecosystem. #TransitionArc has been developed to add to the work of the wider climate community, bringing together the best transition analysis available on the market - for the first time in the public domain - showing companies’ relative progress across GHG performance, climate targets, capital allocation, governance and policy engagement. Register here to access the tool: https://lnkd.in/dvgzKGUh
It’s #TransitionArc launch day! We’re excited to introduce TransitionArc: a one-stop tool to assess corporate transitions, and unlock finance at the speed and scale needed to meet global climate goals. For the first time in the public domain, the best available corporate transition analysis has been brought together in one place. This is a game changer for #ClimateFinance, as decision makers no longer need to contend with varying assessment frameworks, multiple ratings and conflicting metrics. Now anyone can see what ‘good’ looks like on the path to transition, and assess companies across five key metrics: ➡️ GHG emissions ➡️ Climate targets ➡️ Capital allocation ➡️ Governance ➡️ Policy engagement TransitionArc will accelerate the #ClimateTransition by empowering decision makers to close the gaps between corporate commitments, disclosure and action: 🔷 Companies can prioritize green solutions and attract investment 🔷 Financial institutions can direct flows of capital to support corporate transitions 🔷 Civil society can advocate for greater and more specific corporate accountability 🔷 Governments and regulators can develop policy and accountability mechanisms Everything we do at Climate Arc is based on collaboration. TransitionArc was created in partnership with world-leading data and analysis providers including Carbon Tracker, Corporate Knights, InfluenceMap, Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) , World Benchmarking Alliance, CDP, Global Canopy, Science Based Targets initiative and The International Council on Clean Transportation. The metrics are consistent with existing climate transition frameworks, including the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT). Register here to access the tool: https://brnw.ch/21wKNgJ We’d love to know what you think!
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Vandana Bahri, Head of Skills and Livelihood and Anindya Dutta Gupta, PhD Manager, Girl Capital at CIFF, shared their insights at the event on 'Education Sector Vision Under Viksit Bharat @ 2047', organised by Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow Aimed at seeking inputs to advance the government’s vision, the discussions brought forth key strategies to transform secondary education and skill development in India. Key recommendations included: ✔ Improving vocational education quality in secondary schools ✔ Increasing focus on technology and online learning to make secondary education more accessible ✔ Leveraging existing ICT infrastructure (Personalised Adaptive Learning) to bridge learning gaps ✔ Strengthening last-mile delivery infrastructure to promote gender inclusion ✔ Fostering closer ties between industry and academia through apprenticeships ✔ Enhancing access to scholarships to reduce school dropouts ✔ Supporting professional development for teachers ✔ Implementing result-based financing for job-skilling programmes with a focus on placement and retention.
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Yesterday at the India Global Forum, our CEO Kate Hampton and Sanjeev Sanyal, Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, discussed critical global issues including challenges in energy transition and the need for a financial architecture to support developing countries. She spotlighted India's initiative on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure and how Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure is providing a space for South-South collaborations, playing a pivotal role in enhancing infrastructure resilience globally. She also highlighted how innovative climate solutions often emerge from developing economies due to shared challenges and emphasized the urgent need for increased public and private investments.
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