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Child-Lens Investing

UNICEF USA’s Impact Fund for Children, in collaboration with the UNICEF Innovation Hub, and impact investment consultant, Tideline, present the Child Lens – a new way to frame investment strategies and direct capital toward advancing positive child outcomes and minimizing child harm.

Child-Lens Investing Discussion Paper

The Child-Lens Investing Discussion Paper serves as a central guiding document that investors, asset owners, regulators, standard setters, and other stakeholders may use as a starting point in learning about the child lens.

The paper includes a full framework describing the core principles of the child lens, the case for investment, an analysis of the global market landscape in context of the child lens, and a description of the current and continuously evolving child-lens investment ecosystem.

Child-Lens Investing Investor Toolkit

After reading the Child-Lens Investing Discussion Paper, interested investors can learn more about how to identify as a child-lens investor through this Investor Toolkit. This document will provide helpful case studies of child-aligned investment strategies and will give investors a high-level step-by-step guide to evaluate their own strategies against the child-lens investing framework.

Please see two component tools that can be used in conjunction with the Investor Toolkit:

This Executive Summary is excerpted from the Discussion Paper and can serve as a starting point or quick reference document for the child-lens investment framework.

Engage With Us

If you would like more information on Child-Lens Investing or have questions on how to engage further please reach out to:

Cristina Shapiro at cshapiro@unicefusa.org

Erin Egan at eegan@unicefusa.org