Title:
Putting children at the heart of budgets: How UNICEF is pioneering child-focused budgeting
Putting children at the heart of budgets: How UNICEF is pioneering child-focused budgeting
Paper Type:
Briefing Notes
Briefing Notes
Date:
August 2012
August 2012
Summary:
UNICEF is best known for its grassroots programmes to improve children’s lives but now it’s working with government ministries to ensure that children’s issues are put at the heart of governments’ national budgets. UNICEF has been training ministries in Central and Eastern Europe to align their budgets with child-focused outcomes. The big advantage of this approach is that it ensures that programmes targeted at children have the full weight of national resources behind them, enabling UNICEF to have a potentially bigger impact than if it operated on its own. This Briefing Note explains the concept behind child-focused budgeting and how UNICEF is bringing it to life.
UNICEF is best known for its grassroots programmes to improve children’s lives but now it’s working with government ministries to ensure that children’s issues are put at the heart of governments’ national budgets. UNICEF has been training ministries in Central and Eastern Europe to align their budgets with child-focused outcomes. The big advantage of this approach is that it ensures that programmes targeted at children have the full weight of national resources behind them, enabling UNICEF to have a potentially bigger impact than if it operated on its own. This Briefing Note explains the concept behind child-focused budgeting and how UNICEF is bringing it to life.
