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Save the Children is the world’s leading independent children’s organisation. We’ve been standing side by side with children for over 100 years, helping every child get the chance of a future they deserve. In more than 100 countries, we help the most vulnerable children stay safe, healthy and learning. We're a global network of local experts, delivering change that lasts a lifetime.
Partnering with governments and international organisations
We work in partnership with governments and multilateral organisations to catalyse our respective expertise and strengths. Together, we create lasting, systemic change to fulfil and advance children’s rights and keep them safe, healthy and learning.
We focus on creating sustainable approaches that support transformative systems and programmes around the world, amplifying the voices of children most affected by inequality, and prioritising locally led implementation. Working in partnership helps us deliver much greater impact by supporting the priorities of the countries we work in. We work equitably with local partners to build evidence and share knowledge for long term sustainable change.
Our Partners
The challenges facing children are increasingly connected and developing faster than ever. Conflict, climate disasters, displacement, hunger, and economic instability are stealing childhoods, threatening lives and deepening inequalities. We need partners who understand the scale of the challenge and share our ambition to make lasting change for children.
Partnerships are central to our work delivering meaningful impact. We ensure strong coordination between humanitarian actors, including local and national authorities, to drive forward evidence-based change within our programmes and the wider humanitarian sector.
Together with our partners, we’re creating lasting change in children’s lives.
FCDO
GAVI
GPE
Irish Aid
UNICEF
UN OCHA
World Bank
Our Impact
Elizabeth and her daughter Chefuniro, three, at their family garden in Balaka district, Malawi.
Tackling climate-induced health risks in Malawi
Malawi’s vulnerability to climate change hazards adversely impacts on the health and livelihoods of rural communities, with disproportionate impacts on women and children.
Working with the Government of Malawi and the Green Climate Fund, this programme transforms how communities prepare for the health impacts of climate change. We will reach an estimated 1.7 million people through the delivery of essential community healthcare and investing in climate‑resilient health infrastructure.
This partnership utilises the GCF’s match funding mechanism to catalyse funding from public and private sector organisations, demonstrating how collective action can drive lasting change for children.
Best friends Marcel, 14, and God’s Gift, 13, walking home from school in Benue State, Nigeria.
Improving education for refugee children
Cameroonian refugee children arriving at schools in Nigeria faced overcrowded classrooms, a shortage of teachers and a lack of basic supplies—making learning difficult.
We have partnered with Global Partnership for Education and the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education to transform schools, supporting both refugee and host community students.
Together, we are addressing immediate needs as well as laying the groundwork for a stronger, more inclusive education system.
Amina* 18 and her friends pose for a picture as they walk to college in Barishal, Bangladesh
Investing in Children's futures
Save the Children has a long-standing and strong partnership with the World Bank, since the signature of our first Partnership Agreement together in 2015. Programmatically, we have worked together across over thirty countries on three continents, to deliver outcomes for children across sectors such as education, health, social protection and nutrition.
We have created an immersive story to demonstrate how targeted, community-driven investments in nutrition, education, and social protection are creating building blocks for future resilience, prosperity, and leadership.
Partner with us
We believe every child deserves safety, dignity, and hope for the future. That is why we are standing alongside children and their families in the hardest places, delivering lifesaving support, and fighting with them for the policies and protections they need and deserve.
Please get in touch if you would like to learn more about our work.