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This annual report highlights progress made to advance the wellbeing, protection, and rights of children and young people across our program areas in Ethiopia. It presents key achievements in education, child protection, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, livelihoods, youth development, humanitarian assistance, and environmental sustainability and resilience, while reflecting on challenges encountered and lessons learned in a changing operating environment.

This annual report 2025 highlights progress made in 2025 to advance the wellbeing, protection, and rights of children and young people across our program areas in Ethiopia. It presents key achievements in education, child protection, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, livelihoods, youth development, humanitarian assistance, and environmental sustainability and resilience, while reflecting on challenges encountered and lessons learned in a changing operating environment.

This annual report 2025 highlights progress made in 2025 to advance the wellbeing, protection, and rights of children and young people across our program areas in Ethiopia. It presents key achievements in education, child protection, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, livelihoods, youth development, humanitarian assistance, and environmental sustainability and resilience, while reflecting on challenges encountered and lessons learned in a changing operating environment. The report also outlines our partnerships, program approaches, and use of resources, demonstrating how ChildFund worked with communities, government, and partners to deliver accountable, locally led, and sustainable results for children and their families.

ChildFund Ethiopia’s current Country Strategic Plan 2022 – 2026 has an ambitious goal to reach approximately 7 million children, their families, and communities annually by the end of 2026. During this period, we will strive to explore more innovative and creative ways to scale up our reach and impact, through embracing technology, adopt digitalization, improving our systems for efficiency, building on our program models, expanding our humanitarian footprint, and diversifying our funding base and scaling up our fundraising. We are cognizant that we cannot do this on our own and expanding our partnerships will be critical to achieving this goal.

ChildFund International is on an exciting journey. With our newest organizational strategy, Growing Connections 2030, we look toward a future where we will not only create impact with more children and families than ever before, but we will do so through expanded partnerships and deeper relationships. As the world changes, the people and institutions focused on child well-being must rise to its new challenges and help more children connect with what they need to thrive. It is more urgent than ever that we rise to those challenges together — so that children can rise to theirs. We hope our vision for the future of our work inspires you to join us on this path. Because, to reach our ambitious goals, we need each other.

At ChildFund, we characterize our impact in Africa, Asia, and the Americas using four key dimensions: (1) the positive change we see in our core outcomes as measured by performance data — our global monitoring of key indicators and our programming evidence; (2) by the feedback we receive from children, families, sponsors, partners, and stakeholders on how our work with them has made a positive difference in their lives — and in their communities; (3) how we apply learning about what works well and does not work well in our programs and strategies to improve outcomes; and (4) how we contribute to global, collective outcomes for children and their families — the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This brief reflects input from across ChildFund Alliance members on the climate crisis. Case studies within the brief offer insights into this complex issue, in addition to recommendations for potential development of joint projects among Alliance members and country offices.

This report summarizes findings from the ChildFund Alliance Program Committee’s Climate and Environment Working Group’s online workshop, The Participation of Children and Youth as Transformation Champions: A Youth Practitioner Workshop, held in October 2023. The workshop aimed to shed light on the challenges faced by youth and children in the context of mental health, resource access, capacity building, and policy influencing, within the changing climate landscape.