Pathfinding Global Alliance on Ending Violence against Children

The Pathfinding Global Alliance brings together countries and all relevant stakeholders committed to accelerating efforts to end all forms of violence against children by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and child rights standards. The Pathfinding Global Alliance provides a platform for partners to share information, promising practices, and lessons learned, as well as to collaborate and demonstrate progress.

Despite advances and efforts made to date, violence against children is still widespread, with at least a billion children being exposed to some form of violence each year. The world is not on track to end violence against children by 2030, as promised under the SDGs. Violence against children and its drivers cut across the whole 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Given the inter-sectoral and transnational dimension of violence against children and its intersectionality with gender-based violence, there is an urgent need to act collectively, better, and faster. Investing in child protection and wellbeing cannot wait, in light of the huge human and economic costs of violence