Our Strategy
Our Key Priorities for 2025-30
Children's Human Rights
We focus on protecting, respecting, and fulfilling children’s human rights by identifying and advancing human rights-based approaches and mechanisms that promote accountability, and apply international learning to local and national contexts where children’s human rights are most at risk.
Well-Being
We work collaboratively to ensure governments prioritise children, with a distinct focus on building and securing the case for children’s well-being, amplifying the importance of families’ economic context, and effective policy development and resourcing of essential services for children and families.
Justice
We work to ensure children are at the heart of an emerging global movement for people-centred justice, advancing a new, holistic notion of child-centred justice. We are working to ensure the recognition of children’s essential role in the global movement to achieve SDG 16: peaceful, just and inclusive societies, and in national-level justice reforms.
Our Commitment
We are committed to making a tangible difference in the lives of children. Our strategy is not just a plan but a call to action. Together with our partners, we will work tirelessly to close the gap between our collective ambitions and the lived realities faced by children every day.
We invite you to join us on this 5-year journey to foster a brighter future where every child has what they need to fulfil their potential, particularly those facing the greatest adversity.
We’d love to hear from you!
Mail: iicf-hello@strath.ac.uk
Bluesky: @IICFStrath.bluesky.social
Linkedin: institute-for-inspiring-childrens-futures
Our Inspiring Children’s Futures Strategy for 2025-2030 is a bold and ambitious plan that aligns with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the University of Strathclyde's 2030 Strategy.
We believe that every child deserves to thrive. And so, our new Strategy focuses on creating multidisciplinary and cross-sector partnerships to address both long-standing and newly emerging challenges. By working closely with governments, societies, and in intergenerational partnerships, we aim to ensure that children's human rights, well-being and access to justice are at the forefront of decision-making processes.