The Child Partnership is co-chaired by three international organizations: FUTURES, ChildFund International, and First Focus, dedicated to ensuring children and youth around the world are safe, supported, and able to thrive.
The Child Partnership advances a whole-child approach that recognizes children’s needs are interconnected and require coordinated investments across health, education, protection, nutrition, mental health, violence prevention, humanitarian response, and opportunity.
The Problem
Children and youth face growing risks from violence, conflict, exploitation, displacement, online harms, and instability.
- More than 520 million children live in conflict-affected or fragile settings globally
- 108 million children have been displaced by war, violence, and persecution
- Millions of girls remain at risk of violence, exploitation, child marriage, and barriers to education
- Young girls are twice as likely as boys not to attend school
- 1 in 5 women ages 20-24 were married as children
- 1 in 4 have experienced intimate partner violence
Our Approach
Through this partnership, FUTURES advocates for child-centered U.S. foreign policy and global development efforts that prioritize children’s safety, well-being, education, health, protection, and opportunity.
Our Priorities
We are advocating for the creation of an Office of International Children’s Issues to strengthen policies and programs that will:
- Prevent violence against children
- Address child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Combat child trafficking and online harms
- Support girls’ education and leadership
- Protect children affected by conflict, migration, and humanitarian crises
- Promote positive youth development and mental well-being
- Strengthen safe and supportive family and community environment
Get Involved
For more information about the Child Partnership, go to childpartnership.org
FY27 House NSRP Bill Child Impact Analysis
This infographic examines how the FY27 House NSRP Bill affects children globally, highlighting preserved investments in child survival and education alongside reductions to humanitarian assistance and multilateral programs that support vulnerable children.
FY27 NSRP Bill: Impacts on Women & Girls
This infographic summarizes the proposed FY27 National Security Reimbursement Program (NSRP) funding changes affecting global women’s programs. It highlights reductions to women’s economic empowerment, violence prevention, women, peace and security initiatives, and reproductive health services, while outlining anticipated programmatic impacts and regions most affected by the proposed funding cuts.
Nurturing Today’s Children, Shaping Tomorrow’s World
The Child Partnership brought together a bipartisan group of Members of Congress, staff, White House administration, and foundation leaders to help send the message to U.S leaders that children and youth should be at the center of foreign assistance.
