Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

This #YouthSkillsDay, we celebrate the Skill Impact Bond’s training partners who are transforming thousands of lives by equipping youth across India with skills needed to enter the workforce! Field visits to training partners Learnet Skills Limited, Magic Bus India Foundation, and PanIIT Alumni India Foundation showed us how the Skill Impact Bond is empowering their teams to be creative and innovative to ensure young people are set up for success not just in the short-term, but for life. Karthik Srinivasan Barbara Bedike Bharath Visweswariah Anushree Parekh Nitya Daryanani Sai Rama Barkat Kamili @Abhishek Singh @Dheeraj Kumar Kalyan T Chakravarthy Chittaranjan Samantaray Jayant Rastogi aarthi singh Shruthi Rajput National Skill Development Corporation Michael & Susan Dell Foundation HSBC India Dubai Cares British Asian Trust USAID - US Agency for International Development Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Oxford Policy Management Dalberg Magic Bus India Foundation Learnet Skills Limited PanIIT Alumni India

Nikita Srivastav, Manager of SRHR at CIFF, spoke at FP2030 in the Philippines about 'Private Sector Engagement: Galvanising Partnerships to Expand Access and Choice'. She highlighted how CIFF works across sectors to strengthen access to safe and quality family planning services. This effort aligns with the government's #FP2030 vision of fostering an ecosystem that collaboratively enhances access and provides more choices for women. Emphasizing the positives of investing in family planning for women, she explained how it can generate a ripple effect in society that empowers them economically, enhances their overall well-being, and contributes to improved outcomes for populations.

🎯 What did the Skill Impact Bond – India's first and largest impact bond for employment outcomes – set out to achieve when it was launched?  👉🏽 Swipe to learn about how the programme is living up to its promise and bringing transformative change to the skilling ecosystem.  #SkillImpactBond #employment #India #impact National Skill Development Corporation, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, India, Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) JSW Foundation, HSBC India, Dubai Cares, USAID, FCDO Services India, Oxford Policy Management, Dalberg, British Asian Trust

Today marks two years since the launch of the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)! Thanks to all amazing partners who have endorsed helping to mobilise political will, resources and action to #BeatNTDs! Thanks to the Government of Rwanda for their incredible leadership with the Declaration, hosting the Kigali Summit on Malaria and NTDs in 2022, mobilising leaders, and being the first country in Africa to enter its domestic investments into the Commitment Tracker. We continue to welcome endorsements and commitments for the Kigali Declaration from governments, pharmaceutical companies, NGOs and other partners. Find out how to endorse on our website: https://bit.ly/4c99stG By taking action, together we can #UniteActEliminate to #BeatNTDs!

We’re thrilled that today, Climate Arc has launched #TransitionArc - a one-stop #ClimateFinance tool to assess corporate transitions on climate goals 🌎 The global #ClimateTransition is a collaborative effort, and what companies do or don’t do matters to all of us. Accelerating corporate transition is a goal we share across the climate finance ecosystem. #TransitionArc has been developed to add to the work of the wider climate community, bringing together the best transition analysis available on the market - for the first time in the public domain - showing companies’ relative progress across GHG performance, climate targets, capital allocation, governance and policy engagement. Register here to access the tool: https://lnkd.in/dvgzKGUh

Vandana Bahri, Head of Skills and Livelihood and Anindya Dutta Gupta, PhD Manager, Girl Capital at CIFF, shared their insights at the event on 'Education Sector Vision Under Viksit Bharat @ 2047', organised by Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow   Aimed at seeking inputs to advance the government’s vision, the discussions brought forth key strategies to transform secondary education and skill development in India.   Key recommendations included: ✔ Improving vocational education quality in secondary schools ✔ Increasing focus on technology and online learning to make secondary education more accessible ✔ Leveraging existing ICT infrastructure (Personalised Adaptive Learning) to bridge learning gaps ✔ Strengthening last-mile delivery infrastructure to promote gender inclusion ✔ Fostering closer ties between industry and academia through apprenticeships ✔ Enhancing access to scholarships to reduce school dropouts ✔ Supporting professional development for teachers ✔ Implementing result-based financing for job-skilling programmes with a focus on placement and retention.

Yesterday at the India Global Forum, our CEO Kate Hampton and Sanjeev Sanyal, Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India,  discussed critical global issues including challenges in energy transition and the need for a financial architecture to support developing countries. She spotlighted India's initiative on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure and how Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure is providing a space for South-South collaborations, playing a pivotal role in enhancing infrastructure resilience globally. She also highlighted how innovative climate solutions often emerge from developing economies due to shared challenges and emphasized the urgent need for increased public and private investments.

As a funder focused on creating a better world for children, CIFF knows that adolescents and young people are judicious leaders, effective stewards of resources and the best experts on their own lives.   That’s why we’re delighted to join forces with the Children's Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF) and We Trust You(th) Initiative, along with 11 other child- and youth-focused funders, to move money to youth and to demonstrate What’s Possible when donors follow young people’s lead.   Learn more about What’s Possible here: https://lnkd.in/gZ5msRgY

Aujourd’hui, nous célébrons la Déclaration de Kigali, une déclaration politique historique visant à mettre fin aux souffrances causées par les MTN.  En ce jour, nous voulons célébrer les nombreux pays qui ont fait de grands progrès vers cet objectif.  Au #BurkinaFaso, des progrès remarquables sont en cours  pour contrôler la filariose lymphatique (FL) grâce aux efforts concertés du gouvernement, du Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, et de partenaires tels que Sightsavers. Le projet Arise, en particulier, joue un rôle clé dans l’élimination de la filariose lymphatique. Découvrez l’impact de ces efforts à travers cette vidéo 👇🏾 Unissons-nous et agissons pour éliminer les #MTN! #BeatNTDs #UniteActEliminate Speak Up Africa

We’re celebrating the anniversary of the Kigali Declaration – the landmark political declaration to end suffering caused by NTDs. We want to celebrate the many countries that have made great strides towards this goal. Burkina Faso’s work to control lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one example which shows the dedication it takes, as well as the impact it can have. Neglected tropical diseases remain a group of debilitating diseases that have an incredibly painful impact on over a billion of the global population. Yet many countries have made great strides in eliminating at least one NTD. With support from the ARISE fund and other partners, the government of Burkina Faso has accelerated action to beat lymphatic filariasis (LF), a devastating NTD endemic to the country. Thank you to the Government of Burkina Faso, The National Programme for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, The END Fund - ARISE, Speak Up Africa and Sightsavers for your continued commitment to eliminating NTDs. On the anniversary of the Kigali Declaration, we recognise there is still much more to be done, however, we can also celebrate the progress made towards a world free from NTDs. Produced alongside our partners Speak Up Africa, hear from patients, experts and communities who share their journey towards a LF-free Burkina Faso 👇🏾 #BeatNTDs #UniteActEliminate #NotoNTDs