Diversity, equity and inclusion

Every child deserves a healthy, safe life with opportunities to flourish. At CIFF, we are committed to ensuring that children have access to the health, education and protection they need, regardless of their background. And, as we work together to achieve this goal, we aim to ensure that all our staff and partners are treated and treat each other with respect and dignity.

As a UK-registered charity, we comply with the UK Equality Act 2010, which protects people from discrimination, harassment and victimisation based on nine protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation. In line with this, we embed diversity, equity and inclusion in our work and operations. Across all the geographies we operate in, we aim to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that values individual differences, supports people with different needs, and enables everyone to do their best work.

We want to ensure our grant-making helps reduce the inequalities that allow child poverty and hunger to exist, create barriers to health, education and other fundamental rights, such as protection from violence and environmental harms, including climate change. We know that there is a power imbalance in philanthropy and the development sector; we therefore ensure our work is driven by the priorities of the countries and communities we work with, and we invest in teams based in the locations where we grant the most. We also embed an equity lens within our grant-making strategies, which means ensuring our programmes reach and support groups and communities who are otherwise left behind, working with our grantee partners to co-create solutions that will best serve this objective.

This work is complex and takes time. We are therefore committed to learning from our philanthropic and programmatic partners, as well as sharing our own insights.

This is not just the right thing to do, it also makes our programmes more relevant, impactful and sustainable for the individuals and communities we work with.