Influencing the decisions that shape children's lives and futures.
We want children across the globe to reach their full potential. That’s why we work closely with decision-makers to amplify children’s voices, influence policies and improve the systems that affect children’s rights through our research, campaigns and mobilising supporter actions.
Embedding children as a principle across UK policy
Making the economic case for child-focused spending
Ensuring children’s voices shape decisions
World Vision has worked alongside children and communities in the world's most fragile and forgotten places for decades. That experience has given us something valuable: not just evidence of what works, but a clear and honest test of whether any development model is actually doing its job.
Children are that test. Not because they are the only people who matter, but because they are the most honest measure we have.
When a financing framework works, children are safer and healthier. When resilience is built at household level, children don’t go to bed hungry after the next shock. And when a development model fails - when resources stop at the national level, when accountability is weak, when the most excluded are designed out of the solution - it is children who show us this first.
Scroll below for links to our latest reports, briefings and blogs.
Many of the countries most vulnerable to climate change have contributed least to the emissions driving it. Yet they face some of the greatest constraints on their ability to respond.
Our Inheritance Trap report examines the relationship between climate vulnerability, debt pressure and childhood development, and shows how their convergence can erode the systems children rely on to survive, learn and thrive.
This briefing begins from a simple truth: climate policy that leaves children out is a failed policy. If we are serious about tackling the climate emergency, we must embed child-specific goals into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).
Young leaders from 12 countries came together in a virtual dialogue on school meals ahead of the 2nd Global Summit of the School Meals Coalition. Find out their demands to all those shaping school meals programmes in their Call to Action.
At the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G) in March 2025, we made recommendations to the FCDO as part of the International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition (ICAN). These highlight the urgent need for the government to put nutrition at the heart of international development.
Every child deserves the chance to grow, learn and thrive. Yet in 2026, that promise is slipping further from reach.
As donor governments retreat from global responsibility, children are paying the highest price. Explore the most recent trends in global aid and why prioritising children is the right and most transformative investment.
Our research reveals that every $1 invested in child-related Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) yields a staggering $10 return – yet, only 5% of global aid targets children. Our Putting Children First for Sustainable Development report explores trends in child-related aid spending and the extraordinary impact when we invest in children.
benefitted from interventions to improve safe water supply, sanitation and hygiene
benefitted from interventions to eliminate malnutrition
participated in clubs, parliaments and advocacy on child rights in 2025
*Statistics from World Vision UK 2025 Impact Report
We work with young activists around the world to create change and campaign for a more sustainable future. By raising children’s voices, we can listen to children on global issues that affect their lives and ensure they are empowered to participate in global discussions.
Our Youth Advocacy Network brings together young people from different contexts, both from the UK and beyond, providing opportunities for members to share their experiences, needs, and solutions with key decision-makers in the UK, and with World Vision UK internally.
