Since 2002, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has set out to improve the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries. The foundation has focused on clear returns for children from the outset, with special focus on childhood health and development, climate change, sexual and reproductive health rights, girl capitol, and child protection.

The partnership between UNFPA and CIFF started when Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem met with CIFF Chief Executive Officer Kate Hampton in February 2011. CIFF and UNFPA were coleads for the Gender Equality Forum - Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy and SRHR in Mexico in July 2021, which was a concrete way to follow up the commitments made at the Nairobi Summit. Further information on CIFF’s commitment at the Nairobi Summit can be found here. 

Providing financial support for contraceptives to youth in Kenya met CIFF’s priority of providing more options of sexual and reproductive health that meet the needs and preferences of girls and women. This promise, in addition to many others, was made at the Gender Equality Forum - Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy and SRHR and International Conference on Population and Development (Nairobi Summit) in November 2019.

CIFF provided notable investment for the UNFPA Supplies Challenge Fund launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CIFF, and a private donor to provide emergency modern contraceptives and life saving maternal health medicines to women and adolescents in need. 

With common goals related to gender equity, human rights and empowerment of adolescent girls, particularly in relation to sexual and reproductive health, UNFPA and CIFF continue to collaborate to mobilize resources and support for gender equality and SRH.