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Children play an innovative board game designed to help Somali children

Innovation Week

Three important lessons in field-driven innovation

Senior Director of Innovation Bagezile Dube unpacks why field-driven innovation is the secret to ensuring World Vision's work stays relevant in an ever...

Children visiting a church in Bosnia and Herzegovinia

Let's have faith in religions' power to protect the planet for children

In the run-up to Earth Day environmental expert, Aaron Tanner, and Faith and Development Advisor, Nikica Lubura-Reljić, call people of faith to lead the...

Salome, Williams and Sunischita at N4G

Nutrition for Growth

Youth expect action, not just sympathy from Nutrition for Growth leaders

The three teenagers from Nepal, Sierra Leone and Colombia want their advocacy to world leaders at #N4GParis to translate into better nutrition for the...

Suldana stands between two orange tents speaking about the struggles of surviving in a displacement camp

Child Protection

Leaders, protect your future: invest in child protection

Brikena Zogaj, warns that countries are risking a strangled future, if children protection is not included in national funding priorities

"We must combat the effects of climate change on nutrition. Children are dying." - Salome, 17, Colombia

Nutrition for Growth Summit

An essential right for the future of our generation and the planet

Salome, an ENOUGH young advocate attending this year’s Nutrition for Growth Summit, calls on world leaders to urgently address the crises related to food...

Women in Asia preparing healthy food

Rethinking Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment

Diane Baik considers how local, food-based approaches empower families and provide sustainable solutions.

Salome from Colombia holding the drawing done by local youth on issues of nutrition

Nutrition for Growth Summit

Why children's participation at the Nutrition for Growth summit matters 

Lisa O’Shea celebrates the French Government’s decision to actively invite young people to have their say at this year’s Nutrition for Growth summit.  

Cash assistance programme aims to help Ukraine’s internally displaced survive the winter season

Centring women in crisis: Strengthening communities through cash assistance

Ghida Krisht shares a new perspective from recent research that resilience is as much about the collective as it is about the individual

Child smiling holding a plate of food

School Meals global report

The Power of School Meals for Children, Livelihoods, and Climate Resilience

Andrea Galante considers what the latest global survey of school meal programmes means for ensuring children's present and future nutrition and success.

A boat washed up on an Indonesian shore after the 2004 tsunami

2004 Tsunami 20th anniversary

The 2004 tsunami taught me many things, but six in particular

Margarettha Siregar shares six things the humanitarian industry should learn from the 2004 tsunami disaster

Matos Inacio with the failed crop in Mozambique

Food shortage in Southern Africa

This Christmas, for Southern Africans the issue of aid is live

Tigana Chileshe writes that as people across Southern Africa approach Christmas, their immediate focus is finding food, after failed crops and drought

Migrant children on the road in East Asia

International Migrants Day

Redefining 'home': The importance of building community for migrants

For International Migrant Day Amy Louise Collins writes that every effort should be made to help migrants find a home away from home.

Zambia NGOs at COP29

COP29 delivers triple climate finance but is it enough for vulnerable children?

Mclarence Mandaza says COP29 decision-makers weren't bold enough, disappointing everyone depending on them for their future

Child points at the damage caused by flooding in Laos

Faith and the climate crisis

COP29: Maybe the rich are blind to climate devastation needs

Jason Garrett wonders whether the Bible could explain why wealthy countries still won't properly support poorer countries devastated by climate change

Child eating pie Alisha Arif / Alamy Stock Photo

Child malnutrition

The UK’s children are malnourished... so let them eat pies?

Lisa O’Shea asks why news headlines are about stolen Michelin-star pies, when millions of malnourished children can't get access to regular, healthy...

A gloved hand taking blood from an ungloved hand

World AIDS Day: A Time to Renew Our Commitment to Ending HIV/AIDS

Eseza Ikedit reminds us on World AIDS Day that eliminating HIV/AIDS is a challenge that requires both science and solidarity

Children in school eating food

School Meals coalition

School meals: South East Asia children must see more action

Terry Ferrari shares the critical takeaways from the Southeast Asia School Meals Coalition Summit

water GIS graph with a map

WASH and GIS Day

World Vision's Water, Sanitation & Hygiene team transitions to digital monitoring

On GIS (Geographic Information System) Day Zach Torres shares guidance on how to unlock the benefits of digital monitoring and elevate performance in any...

Children in Timor Leste launching the It Takes A World to End Violence campaign

Ending violence against children

Last Week, Today, and Tomorrow: A Call to End Violence Against Children

Tamara Tutnjevic says the movement to end violence against children is gathering real pace, but still needs to become mainstream

Islanders visit ancestor's graves ruined by rising sea

COP29: climate action

Climate mobility and climate finance are linked: by survival

As COP29 convenes, Dr Olivia Yates explains how appropriate climate finance would prevent families from being displaced.

World Vision worker explains FMNR to a woman

Regreening/FMNR

From roots to resilience: FMNR is a winning regreening approach

Juliet Bell lays six ways Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration is empowering communities for global impact

Cartoon character from iSmart360

Helping children get iSmart, while protecting their mental and emotional health

Marliz Morales explains how an online platform helps children to build psychosocial skills and be more resilient in their increasingly digital world

Kenyan man looking at tree leaves

COP29 climate conference

COP29 means more climate finance goals: but will there be true ambition?

Jason Garrett hopes the ambition he discovered in Kenya compares to that desperately needed at this year’s COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Mental models map from Impact of Climate Change report

Urban programming

Climate crisis influences children’s and youth’s mental health – why should urban practitioners worry about it?

Aline Rahbany and Kate Kobaidze ask, what does amplifying children's voices on climate change and mental health have to do with World Urban Forum?

Myanmar children with candles

A secret to sustainable recovery: Integrate Peacebuilding into Humanitarian and Development Work

Dr. Kyi Minn explains that in conflict situations, a triple response following humanitarian emergencies is vital.