Global Annual Results Report 2025: Goal Area 3
Every child is protected from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices.
Highlights
The Global Annual Results Report 2025 on Goal Area 3 of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022–2025 presents results on the child protection programme, policy and advocacy efforts supported by UNICEF and its partners around the world to protect and fulfil every child's right to live free from violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect and harmful practices. This programme covers three result areas: 1) Protection from violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect; 2) Promotion of care, mental health and psychosocial well-being and justice for children; and 3) Prevention of harmful practices.
Child protection is a right enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and underpins progress across the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 5.3 on eliminating harmful practices, SDG 8.7 on ending child labour, and SDG 16.2 on ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence against children. In 2025, UNICEF achieved significant progress across Goal Area 3 result areas, at output level averaging 97 per cent for Results Area 1, 88 per cent for Results Area 2 and 45 per cent for Results Area 3.
Headline results
- Nearly 61 million children were enabled to be birth registered.
- Over 18 million parents and caregivers were reached through parenting programmes.
- Over 8 million children on the move were reached with integrated protection and basic services, including 100,000+ unaccompanied and separated children.
- Nearly 47 million people received mental health and psychosocial support services.
- Over 10 million girls were engaged in efforts to eliminate harmful practices, and 74 million people gained access to safe, community-based sexual exploitation and abuse reporting channels.
