Investing in children is a smart investment in a safer, prosperous, and stable world for all.

As the EU starts planning the next Multiannual Financial Framework (#MFF) 2028-2034, it has both a big opportunity and a clear responsibility: putting children at the centre of its humanitarian and development efforts.

In a newly launched position paper, Joining Forces – an alliance of the six largest child-focused international NGOs, including Terre des Hommes International Federation – outlines its key recommendations for the next MFF.

🔹Put the most vulnerable children at the centre of the external dimension of the MFF
🔹Keep separate the EU’s external financing instruments, to address children’s specific needs
🔹Ensure ambitious child-focused ODA funding across these three funding instruments
🔹Track and report the levels of child-focused external investment.

Read the complete position paper by Joining Forces members ChildFund Alliance, Plan International EU Office, Save the Children Europe, SOS Children’s Villages International, Terre des Hommes International Federation and World Vision EU Representation here.