Financing the Future: Innovative Approaches to Investing in Child Protection
This session explores how governments can use innovative financing mechanisms — drawing on lessons from health, education, and social protection — to expand fiscal space and accelerate investment in child protection, while keeping these approaches firmly grounded in domestic public financial management and government ownership.
Through a scene-setting overview of six financing mechanisms and interactive engagement, participants will move beyond simply learning what these instruments are to actually applying them to their own country contexts — weighing opportunities against limitations and reflecting on those that might best work for financing child protection.
The session's core message is that real innovation lies not in finding new money, but in financing child protection more strategically: innovative financing should complement, not replace, strong domestic investment, sound public financial management, and evidence-based costing.
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Purpose
To explore practical and scalable innovative financing approaches that governments can use to complement domestic investment and strengthen child protection systems.
Drawing on examples from health, education and social protection, the session will demonstrate how innovative financing mechanisms can expand fiscal space, improve efficiency, mobilize new partners and accelerate investment in children, while remaining firmly anchored within public financial management systems and government ownership.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the session participants will:
