Child-aligned Investment Amplifier
Influencing the investment ecosystem to align and accelerate global capital in support of children
Child-lens Investing
Child-lens investing (CLI) equips investors to intentionally consider child-related factors to advance positive outcomes for children, while also minimizing child harm.
Oriented towards a vision and an objective in which all children – regardless of context or circumstance – are healthy, educated, protected, and respected, CLI recognizes that all investor actions ultimately have a bearing on children in this and coming generations. As an intersectional system and context-driven approach, CLI helps investors to holistically enable children’s rights and well-being.
The investor strategies identified for integrating a child-focused approach hinge upon how business practices positively impact children's rights and well-being. These strategies are classified into three categories: Child-screened, Child-inclusive, and Child-centered.
Find out more about the Child Lens Investing Framework here.
Child-Lens Investing Application
Our objective is to apply UNICEF’s Child-Lens Investing Framework to attract additional capital in support of children, including in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) states.
We aim to collaborate with financial institutions such as Development Financial Institutions, International Financial Institutions, and Asset Managers to influence the development sector, businesses, and markets, fostering better alignment with child rights and well-being and improving data and impact measurement practices around child well-being.
The aspiration is for these engagements to facilitate the rigorous, principled, and mainstream adoption of child-lens investing. The Innovative Finance Hub envisions all stakeholders in the responsible investing ecosystem and UNICEF pioneering and shaping a new market. The Hub is open to collaborating on a range of opportunities, from thought leadership to engaging on funds with a child lens and other transformative initiatives.
Key investing stakeholders are invited to join UNICEF in taking a bold step by adopting CLI with a shared purpose of building the field of child-lens investing.
Interested? Contact us at IF-Hub@unicef.org