Influencing EU policy to uphold children's rights
Positioning child rights at the center of European Union policy and action
UNICEF PPR Europe engages with EU institutions to ensure that children’s rights are prioritized across EU policies, legislation and budgetary decisions, recognizing the EU’s significant influence on child development and wellbeing globally.
Through strategic engagement with EU internal, development and humanitarian frameworks, UNICEF PPR Europe works to keep children at the center of EU action by systematically integrating child rights across legislation, policies and funding instruments, including in health and nutrition, social protection, child protection and education, so that EU interventions consistently deliver for children in all contexts.
UNICEF PPR Europe works to influence long-term EU investment decisions, such as the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034), ensuring EU financing promotes child rights and supports the most vulnerable children, both within and beyond Europe.
Bringing children's rights to the centre of European Union policy
Through sustained policy engagement and partnerships, UNICEF PPR Europe office supports the EU’s efforts to embed children’s rights across its internal and external action.
This is reflected in decision‑making processes across policy areas, of importance to children, so that EU action consistently advances and safeguards the rights and wellbeing of all children, especially those most at risk.
UNICEF PPR Europe works to influence the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU to support a budgetary and financial governance process, including in the EU’s next long-term budget, in which the EU’s financial instruments are designed, implemented and scrutinized in ways that systematically prioritize children’s rights, strengthening the effectiveness, accountability and targeting of EU spending for children.
UNICEF PPR Europe engages with the EU to support governance processes in which children’s rights are consistently prioritized across policy development, oversight and implementation, and in which children are systematically and meaningfully involved in shaping EU policies that affect their lives.