Global Annual Results Report 2023: Goal Area 5
Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty
Highlights
As part of the broader Global Annual Results Report, the Goal Area 5 Chapter presents results of its social policy and social protection programme, covering two result areas: reducing child poverty and ensuring access to inclusive social protection.
Goal Area 5 is intended to ensure that every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty. UNICEF’s commitments under Goal Area 5 contribute to furthering realization of the right to social security and to an adequate standard of living, as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting acceleration of progress across child-specific SDGs, particularly 1 and 10, and also 2-5, 8, 11, 16 and 17. In the Strategic Plan period 2022-2025,
In the second year of its Strategic Plan 2022–2025, UNICEF has surpassed or is close to its targets across Goal Area 5. This testifies to organizational commitment at all levels, and the impact of critical partnerships leveraged.
Headline results:
- A total 79 countries had moderately strong or strong social protection systems in 2023, representing more than half of reporting countries, while 22 had strong systems that can effectively and rapidly respond to humanitarian crises.
- 165 million children were reached with cash transfer programmes, a more than 25 per cent increase from 2022.
