Public Statement

Over the past few months, several European Council as well as Justice and Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Council meetings have been convened to discuss and develop immediate responses and policies to address the recent increase in migrants and refugees arriving to Europe.

Governments from all over the world gathered in New York recently to adopt the new Global Goals for Sustainable Development and a new Global Partnership to end violence against children was launched.

ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages International, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and World Vision International co-hosted a side-event entitled ‘Building a world that is safer for children,’ where the partnership was announced.

In the past three years, ChildFund Alliance has engaged with over 16,000 children across 50 countries, capturing their aspirations and thoughts about the new global goals. World leaders listened and agreed on a vision of a world which “...invests in its children and in which every child grows up free from violence and exploitation.” This side-event was a celebration of this major breakthrough for millions of children, as well as their role as agents of change in sustainable development.

ChildFund International was among a group of organizations honored at the 2015 Clinton Global Citizen Awards for its tremendous leadership in responding to the Ebola crisis over the past year.

In 2014 ChildFund joined with Airlink, a rapid-response relief organization that links airlines with nonprofits, and other partners in a CGI Commitment to Action to build an Air Bridge to West Africa. Through this collaboration, ChildFund helped to fill three planes with critically needed medical supplies and was one of the first organizations to equip teams on the ground to take action in the hardest-hit areas of Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Joint Communique from Child-focused Agencies at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development held in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, from 13 to 16 July 2015.

The Third International Conference on Financing for Development was held in a critical year for development where global goals are being set. We are convinced and have been striving for children to be at the center of all decisions that are being made as they will impact their future.

ChildFund Alliance Urges Governments to Make Child Protection a Global Priority – Cites evidence that prevention is cost effective.

ChildFund Alliance, a global network of child-centered development organizations, is calling on governments to prioritize the protection of children from violence in the outcome document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), and in the means of implementation for the post-2015 development agenda.

The ChildFund Alliance Board is pleased to announce that Meg Gardinier has been appointed as Secretary General. She takes up this role on Monday July 6, 2015.

Meg Gardinier is an international, not-for-profit advocate specializing in women and children’s issues. She has over 25 years' experience in Non-Governmental Organizational development, advocacy, fundraising, strategic leadership and volunteer management.

ChildFund Alliance welcomes news of Panel to review UN response to child sexual abuse allegations in Central African Republic

ChildFund Alliance welcomes the news that a panel has been established to investigate the UN’s response to allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of children by foreign military forces in the Central African Republic.

BRUSSELS, 25 June 2015 – Child focused aid agencies are calling for the EU to lead by example during negotiations taking place in New York on a new global development framework, and to ensure investments in children are prioritised in a document to be agreed at a UN Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July.

ChildFund Alliance are one of the guest speakers at the “Making Rights a Reality” conference being held in Ireland this week (June 18) to discuss how the post-2015 agenda will shape the lives of children and young people.

ChildFund Ireland is a founding member of the Coalition for Children’s Rights who are hosting the conference at Dublin Castle in partnership with the Children’s Rights Alliance and the National Youth Council of Ireland.