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- The Solomon Islands is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to rising sea levels and extreme weather events, like cyclones.
- Save the Children and Green Climate Fund launched a $31.8 million, six-year climate resilience project in the Solomon Islands, targeting a quarter of the population.
- The project will be locally-led, community-based and address climate crisis impacts through increasing school resilience to climate change impacts, youth entrepreneurship, and improved food and water security.
- In 2023 we grew our presence in the Pacific, with 94,000+ printed books sent to Papua New Guinea and 300 Te-Kiribati titles officially launched, free on the Library For All app and distributed to every school across Kiribati.
- 15,000 more Library For All app users joined across Ukraine. Many expressed delight and gratitude for the support of people so far away in Australia, our campaign featured koalas with viburnum – a national flower of Ukraine.
- We supported children’s wellbeing and emotional development while growing literacy, with our Social and Emotional Learning books so far available in six collections including Ukrainian and Swahili.
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- We guided better investment in Asia’s children, delivering a first-of-its-kind landscape study of parenting and early childhood programs and interventions, informing funding and policy. Partners: Asia Philanthropy Circle and National University of Singapore CHILD centre.
- Changing the game for NSW child protection, our evaluation of a major reform found significant implementation challenges and recommended substantial overhaul, now underway. Partners: Monash University, Melbourne Institute and CIRCA.
- Guiding better youth employment policy and practice in the UK, we delivered “the world’s first Youth Employment Toolkit” – a free, online resource based on robust, high-quality evidence. Partners: Youth Futures Foundation, IES and Monash University.
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This year, Fund I provided follow on funding to two Australian portfolio companies to support Oho to reach more children and Ngutu College to extend the school campus.
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Fund II was launched. This Fund will focus on improving access to health, education, safety and resilience for children in Asia, the Pacific and Australia.
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Save the Children was recognised as a leading child-centred investment Fund in UNICEF’s Child Lens Investing Framework.
(Photo: Farasi Lane Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya, where Zeraki Learning is being used to strengthen the capacity of teachers - credit photographer: Georgina Goodwin)
- We won a 2023 Engagement Australia Award for Industry Engagement, in recognition of the ongoing collaboration between Save the Children Australia and Deakin University and its contribution to enhancing the quality and impact of higher education.
- The Crisis Leadership Program expanded its offering, with courses in English, French, Ukrainian and Polish and more diverse intensive locations including Asia and the Middle East.
- The Centre was awarded a new grant from USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance to deliver Francophone education, including the Diplôme d’Études Supérieures en Leadership Humanitaire and the short courses of the Programme de Leadership en situations de Crise.
- Our book sale turned 60! Over the years our book sale with the University of Western Australia has raised more than $5.5 million dollars.
- National Australia Bank volunteering offered incredible support. 600 NAB staff volunteered over 1,700 hours across Australia in our Op Shops and warehouses. One volunteer said 'it’s a privilege that we get the opportunity to [volunteer], we can use it to have an impact on the community beyond the normal scope of our jobs.'
- Save the Children Op Shops celebrated three years in partnership textile recovery and recycling leaders, UPPAREL. Together we saved 67,396 items from landfill.
In 2023, Save the Children Australia was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) to implement programs in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka and PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tonga; and through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) to implement programs in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Turkiye, PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tonga.
