Committed to transparency

In 2010 World Vision committed itself to spend $1.5 billion over the following five years to promote child health.

I took a place on behalf of civil society alongside United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other world leaders at the launch of his Every Woman Every Child campaign in 2010. The proposal was to save the lives of 16 million pregnant women, mothers and children by 2015. Governments, foundations and NGOs pledged huge resources and new laws.

Promises are easy - but how would we know that money was actually given and properly spent? In a unique move, Secretary General Ban created a special commission to monitor the pledges, and I was pleased to take a seat on that World Health Organisation commission.

It would be hypocritical for World Vision to leave itself out of this monitoring. We commissioned an independent review of our commitment by top international auditors Crowe Clark Whitehill to assess how we are doing, half way through the time commitment. They said:

"The overall assessment is that World Vision has made much progress on its EWEC Commitment and is strongly on track to meet its full commitment."

To read the full results, including our progress in the five key commitments we made, download the full report.