More than 520 million children worldwide are affected by conflict. While proven approaches exist to help children recover, learn and thrive, millions remain unable to access the support they need.
Laura Miller, CEO of the War Child Alliance Foundation, said:
“One in every five children alive today is affected by conflict. We know more than ever about what helps children recover, learn and thrive, yet far too many children are still unable to access that support.
Childhood Beyond Conflict is our response to this challenge. By bringing together funding, partnerships, evidence and innovation, we aim to help proven solutions reach millions more children and ensure they have the opportunity not only to survive conflict, but to build a future beyond it.”
Childhood Beyond Conflict is founded on a simple premise: the challenge is not just a lack of solutions, but a lack of access to them. Effective approaches that support children's mental health and wellbeing have demonstrated impact, yet too few children benefit from them due to fragmented financing, insufficient investment and limited pathways to scale.
Over the next ten years, the fund will mobilise $100 million in seed funding, partnerships and evidence to help expand access to proven approaches that support children's mental health and wellbeing. By investing in the capabilities, partnerships and conditions needed for sustainable growth, Childhood Beyond Conflict aims to help more children access effective support through the systems and communities that serve them.
This fund brings together governments, philanthropies, implementing organisations, researchers, multilateral institutions and private-sector partners around a shared ambition: ensuring that children affected by conflict have access to the support they need to recover, learn and thrive.
Greg Milne, CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative, said:
“Too many children affected by conflict are growing up without access to the mental health and psychosocial support they need to recover, learn and thrive. Childhood Beyond Conflict brings together the funding, partnerships and evidence needed to help close that gap and scale approaches that are already showing what’s possible.”
War Child Alliance Founding Global Ambassador Carey Mulligan formally launched Childhood Beyond Conflict at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting as part of War Child Alliance's Commitment to Action.
Contact: Jessica Timings
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