Report

Core Resources Annual Report 2024

Unrestricted funding. Unlimited impact.

UNICEF is conducting awareness-raising activities on the ground to ensure that young girls like Aissa remain in school as long as possible! — UNICEF/UNI627066/Pouget

Highlights

Core Resources are UNICEF’s most valuable funding: unrestricted, dependable and catalytic. They help us respond fast, go further and stay the course for children everywhere. Core Resources are the ‘power behind our promise’, today and in the future.

The 2024 Core Resources Annual Report shows how this vital funding powered progress across all regions and sectors. From emergency response to long-term systems change, Core Resources helped save lives, scale solutions and strengthen national systems.

Explore the full report and two companion publications:

The Impact Story Companion spotlights real-world results. See how Core Resources supported nutrition gains in Bangladesh, unlocked $68 million in financing in Moldova, mapped groundwater across the Horn of Africa, made the education system in Viet Nam more inclusive for children with disabilities and brought universal birth registration within reach in Cote D’ivore and Cabo Verde.
The Partner Recognition Companion celebrates the governments, businesses, philanthropists, and individuals who made this work possible and shares why they chose to support unrestricted funding for maximum impact.

Download the reports to see what unrestricted funding makes possible and why it matters more than ever.