A Technical Report on research data from Cambodia and Mongolia, measuring the enabling environment of children's groups.

With a new borehole, healthy habits are fostered among children at school. With access to clean water, children not only wash their hands properly but also have more time to focus on their lessons. World Vision Mozambique, with support from World Vision Hong Kong, installed five boreholes and 10 handwashing stations in the provinces of Zambézia and Nampula.

A Global Learning Brief on measuring how the enabling environments of children's groups enhances child well-being and programme outcomes.

The overarching objective for this report was to review alignment to the World Vision strategic imperative in Our Promise 2030 of deepening our commitment to the most vulnerable children (MVC) specifically to; identify the MVC in World Vision Uganda Area Programmes, determine where the MVC are concentrated, examine changes in MVC status in the communities, determine whether World Vision Uganda geographical footprint is in areas with higher concentrations of MVC, identify the most common vulnerability markers affecting MVC and their families, and guide the identification and prioritization of MVC and their families in beneficiary selection and targeting.

Where Water Flows, Equality Grows

Nokuthula S. Khumalo, Technical Director Global Humanitarian Surge, highlights that in prolonged crises like Syria, it is not organisational charts that protect children, but trust. As humanitarian systems shift under funding pressure and political change, Thula reflects on how internal instability shows up in delayed care, weakened safeguarding, and broken continuity for children. Opening offices is quick; earning staff confidence after years of uncertainty is not. Thula emphasises that listening, presence and honest communication matter more than procedural fixes when certainty is impossible. Fourteen years into the Syria crisis, if children are to experience continuity, safety, and care during humanitarian transitions, then staff stability and trust must be funded as deliberately as security, supply chains or monitoring systems. Trusted frontline teams are the backbone of safe, child-focused action.

This year, we continued to empower vulnerable children, youth, and families, witnessing how they thrive with education, protection, and community support,

World Vision Afghanistan delivers emergency and development aid in four western provinces; see the FY25 country profile for details.