Commitment

CASH AND VOUCHER ASSISTANCE: 14 million children and their families supported with cash and voucher assistance to ensure families can invest in their children's wellbeing including by increasing access to nutritious foods, as well as preventative and treatment health and nutrition services

Civil society organisation / United Kingdom

January 2022 — December 2024

Description

With the overarching goal of positioning Save the Children as the leading actor in "Cash Plus for Child Outcomes", our target will be to increase our CVA portfolio as well as influence government led social protection schemes (eg child grants) to be more nutrition and child sensitive and more inclusive of children most affected by inequality and discrimination. Evidence shows that CVA is a powerful instrument to achieve positive child outcome especially when coupled with complementary interventions or access to services.

1. Support children and their families to improve and protect their livelihoods and investments in children, especially those most affected by climate change

2. Global evidence advanced on using cash and voucher assistance and climate resilient livelihoods for child outcomes and anticipatory action; with focus on gender equality

3. Increase global investment in cash-plus assistance, to meet immediate humanitarian needs and/or for shock-responsive and child-sensitive social protection

4. National or international policy, legal and budget decisions made to strengthen child-sensitive social protection systems, including transitioning from humanitarian CVA in fragile and/or conflict affected contexts

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Healthy Start & Resilient Families

Description

In line with Save the Children’s 2022-2024 strategy, our Healthy Start in Life ambition will, by 2024, contribute to 130+ million children having equitable access to and using quality essential health and nutrition services. In addition, by 2024 we will contribute to 14m+ million children annually being lifted out of poverty.

In support of this ambition, with focus on nutrition, we will: deliver the following goals/outcomes

1. CHILD NUTRITION: 105 million children in 40+ countries receive support to prevent and treat under-nutrition

2. ACCOUNTABLE INSTITUTIONS: 40 governments and global actors make policy, legal, system or public investment (towards 5% of GDP) changes to meet children’s right to health and nutrition

3. RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS: 14M+ children and their families receive livelihoods support and/or cash and voucher assistance

GNR assessment

Verification status
Verified
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SMARTness index

Details

Target population characteristic
  • Age or life course stage/status
Global nutrition target(s)
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Policy > Nutrition care services
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Health
  • Resilience

Measurement

Key indicator Number of children supported with livelihood and resilience programming.
Value Measurement date
Baseline 9,500,000 children 2020
Target 14,000,000 children December 2024

Progress

Status:
Reached by end date
Why this status?
The target had been reached on or before the end date.
Value Measurement date
Progress report 17,400,000 children December 2023

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