Knowledge Library
The Knowledge Library is a hub for ideas, learning, and practical resources from Global Fund for Children and our community of partners. Explore research, reports, guides, toolkits, stories, and insights that support community-led change and strengthen efforts to advance children's rights around the world.
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Gender justice
What is Gender Equity?
Global Fund for Children's Inclusive Language Guide
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Summer 2026 Impact Report
Discover how community-led organizations and young leaders are driving change across Mexico, West Africa, and beyond. GFC's Summer 2026 Impact Report shares stories of youth leadership, girls' rights, Indigenous communities, and lasting local impact.
Five unforgettable books about child refugees
This World Refugee Week, explore a curated reading list that sheds light on the experiences of refugee and displaced children around the world. From graphic novels and memoirs to powerful works of fiction and nonfiction, these books offer moving insights into resilience, belonging, loss, and hope while highlighting the realities faced by millions of young people forced to flee their homes.
Gender justice
What is Gender Equity?
Explore the meaning of gender equity and how Global Fund for Children partners with community-based organizations to create safer, more inclusive futures for children and young people worldwide.
What are children’s rights?
At Global Fund for Children, protecting children’s rights is central to our mission to help children and young people thrive. We partner with grassroots organizations around the world that are creating safer environments, expanding access to education, and empowering children to shape their own futures.
Global Fund for Children's Inclusive Language Guide
A practical communications guide grounded in dignity, equity, and community leadership – strengthening our practice of inclusive, asset-framed language across storytelling, fundraising, and everyday communications.
The most powerful stories are told by the people who lived them: How Global Fund for Children puts partner voices at the center of our story
A reflection on how Global Fund for Children centers partner and youth voices through inclusive storytelling, asset framing, and partner-led event experiences that shift power and deepen authentic connection.
Spring 2026 Impact Report
Global Fund for Children’s Spring 2026 Impact Report offers a snapshot of partnership in practice. Discover how community-led organizations in Ukraine are sustaining safe spaces for children and families amid ongoing conflict, hear insights from partners on how a trust-based approach supports their growth, and explore how corporate partners are making a difference locally and globally.
Climate resilience
A Practical Fundraising Toolkit for Youth-Led Teams
The gap between youth-led environmental action and access to funding is still huge. The Iris Project shares the Youth Funding Toolkit in response to this reality.
Climate resilience
Meet Huong: An Environmental Changemaker in Children’s Publishing
Thanks to GFC's Spark Fund financial support, knowledge, and network, I successfully founded a social enterprise in children’s publishing on environmental themes and built a creative network of artists dedicated to this cause.
Construir alianzas desde el territorio
Entre abril y junio de 2025, desde Global Fund for Children (GFC) recorrimos territorios de Honduras y Colombia a través de la iniciativa HEEL —palabra maya que significa transformación y que impulsa masculinidades cuidadoras—. No llegamos con recetas ni con diagnósticos definitivos. Llegamos con preguntas, con tiempo y con la disposición de dejarnos transformar por los encuentros.