World Vision: Nourishing Children’s Futures Policy Brief

De-Escalating Border Conflict: World Vision Urges Continued Protection for Children

Despite ongoing efforts, there remains a critical need to enhance collaboration between civil society organisations and government institutions to effectively address child well-being in Zambia. Specifically, ensuring that policies, budgets, and programs related to child nutrition, health, education, and protection are adequately prioritised, monitored, and evaluated remains a challenge. This gap hampers the country’s progress toward sustainable development goals for children.

World Vision Malawi has joined the Government and other stakeholders in the launch of the National Multi-sector Nutrition Policy and Strategic plan, as World Vision implements the Enough Campaign.

A dire humanitarian crisis is unfolding in South Sudan as revealed by the recent analysis of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The IPC recently released a report that indicate 7.7m people, including 2.3m children under five facing acute malnutrition, with some areas facing famine-level situations. Amidst this bleak situation, the Government of South Sudan passed the first National Nutrition Policy, which offers a ray of light.

At the African Union–UNICEF workshop focused on Scalable Foundational Learning and Numeracy (FLN) to End Learning Poverty in Africa held on July 22 to 23, 2025, World Vision Zambia’s impactful partnership with the government of Zambia received notable recognition.