Impact & insights
Behind every impactful programme, there's a huge amount of insight: what worked and why, and how success can be replicated and scaled.
The impact of initiatives we fund does not belong to us. As a philanthropy, our role is to connect the dots and create the conditions that enable these deep partnerships – each of which is built on government leadership, data, and evidence – and the positive change they deliver.
All of the impact we see is a result of strong partnerships, which accelerate evidence-based solutions for creating large-scale change.
Effective grant making requires a practical approach that’s fundamentally grounded in real-world applications. Investing in credible and representative data and evidence is essential to understanding what truly works and how to deliver the most meaningful outcomes. Without high-quality evidence, we’re unable to identify what drives successes and failures, limiting our collective ability to maximise the potential impact for children.
Impact stories
Read more about how our partners are building a world where all children can flourish.
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News & voices
Read the latest updates from CIFF and our partners.
Backed by the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, the new Clinic will provide countries with practical technical support to strengthen national Water Compacts ahead of the December 2026 UN Water Conference in Abu Dhabi.
21 October 2026
Across Africa, neglected tropical diseases are shifting from a seemingly permanent burden to a set of diseases that countries can realistically eliminate.
20 October 2026
At the World Health Summit 2026 in Berlin, youth leaders, funders, researchers and institutional partners came together to explore how meaningful adolescent and youth engagement can become a practical standard across health governance, financing, programmes and accountability.
12 October 2026
How can funders ensure young people aren't just inheriting the climate crisis, but actively shaping the policies to fix it? We asked Alanya Dhalla, CIFF’s Climate Manager, to share insights from her work in climate action:
1 October 2026
Maternal nutrition supplements and therapeutic foods are proven to reduce child malnutrition, but they are not being distributed at sufficient scale. We asked Abhinav Verma, CIFF’s Senior Nutrition Financing and Partnerships Manager, to explain the blockers and how they can be overcome.
23 September 2026
What would it actually take to end HIV, and how could new breakthroughs finally make this goal a reality? We asked Zack Panos, CIFF’s Senior HIV Integration and Access Manager, to break it down for us.
15 September 2026
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President Cyril Ramaphosa speaking at the lenacapavir rollout launch event
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A major step forward for women’s reproductive health: WHO grants prequalification to first generic self-injectable contraceptive, increasing access to high-quality contraceptive choices.
3 October 2025
Senegal is celebrating the World Health Organisation’s announcement, on the 15th July, that the country has officially eliminated trachoma as a public health problem.
22 July 2025
Reports & resources
Read insights from our annual reports.
2025 marked the first year CIFF’s annual charitable commitments exceeded US$1 billion. We committed US$1.45 billion to solutions, partnerships, governments, organisations, and people working to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and create a world where children can flourish.
6 August 2026
In 2024, CIFF continued to work with partners – from governments and multilaterals to NGOs, academics, the private sector and beyond – to support large-scale change, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, but always locally owned.
19 June 2025
CIFF's Annual Report 2023.
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CIFF's Annual Report 2022.
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CIFF's Annual Report 2021.
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