publication / May 7, 2024
West and Central Africa Newsletter - April 2024
In this issue themed ‘Building Resilience for Future Generations’, we spotlight strategies and initiatives aimed at supporting children and communities to access the resources, skills and tools that they need to adapt and thrive in a complex and ever-changing context.
opinion / March 4, 2024
Securing Our Future: Placing Children at the Center of Global Solutions
As Dana Buzducea leads World Vision’s efforts to place children at the center of global agenda, including as regards to the UN’s “Pact for the Future”, she reflects on the complex global landscape and urgent need for concerted action to counter erosion of hard-won progress and address the disproportionate impact on children, particularly the most vulnerable.
publication / April 30, 2024
West and Central Africa Impact Sheet 2023
Over the course of our last fiscal year (October 2022 - September 2023), we reached more than 14 million people through our transformational development programs across these countries. This publication provides a summary of our impact.
opinion / May 7, 2024
Why social justice and education are vital
Teen advocate Sheyla, from Peru, shares why social justice and quality education are imperative for children and young people, and what she wants world leaders to do to ensure these issues are top of their agendas.
publication / April 5, 2024
2023 Global Report on Child Participation in World Vision Decision-Making Processes
This second annual Global Report on Child Participation in World Vision Decision-Making Processes celebrates the different ways girls and boys across the world have been meaningfully involved in the decisions that World Vision makes to improve child well-being around the world. Field Offices have continued to implement stronger and more innovative ways of listening to children, including them in local and national decision-making spaces to ensure that programming and strategy decisions are informed by children’s experiences, priorities, needs, and perspectives.
This report highlights the extraordinary practices of each region and Field Office, celebrating the ways our staff have shared decision-making power with children. World Vision continues to press in our belief that children’s participation is not only a right, but an essential element of our child-focused agenda.
article / May 7, 2024
Advancing Health Equity through Impactful Integrated Health Screening Initiative in Lesotho
Discover how World Vision is tackling TB and other non-communicable diseases in Lesotho with innovative screenings & community engagement. Transforming lives and fostering hope
video / May 8, 2024
Localisation and Working Together For Peace
Over the years, World Vision and the United Nations have advocated for women to play a more prominent role in politics and other decision-making processes in Sierra Leone. To enhance collaboration with funding from UNPBF, UN Women, and UNDP, World Vision and other female-focused Civil Society Organizations have been implementing the Localization and Working Together for Peace project. The initiative aims to reposition women-focused civil society organizations for sustainable peace in Sierra Leone.
press release / May 11, 2024
World Vision warns that the escalation of the conflict in Gaza will have long-term impacts on children’s physical and mental health and well-being
World Vision is deeply concerned about the reports of intensifying military operations in Rafah, which is likely to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in this ‘city of children’, who will be disproportionally impacted.
article / April 18, 2024
World Vision’s Global Disaster Management awards response team for exemplary implementation of WFP Project in Moldova
Of the 1.6 million people reached by World Vision’s humanitarian response to the Ukraine crisis, a total of 298,054 people, both Ukrainian refugees and host families are in Moldova.