UNICEF recognizes that the financial services industry has a potentially transformative role in advancing the shift towards more sustainable and responsible business practices for children. To support this shift, UNICEF has focused on the integration of children’s rights into investor decision-making processes and the rapidly evolving ESG and sustainable business dialogue.
As all ESG processes are highly reliant on data being available on child rights due diligence and performance by companies, another key area of work has been to provide guidance to companies on reporting on children’s rights impacts, as well as to support the more explicit inclusion of key child rights issues in global and national sustainability reporting frameworks.
Finally, to make children’s rights data more accessible and visible, UNICEF has also conducted a number of country level benchmarking studies, analyzing trends and gaps in business practice on children’s rights.
