Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) play a pivotal role in advancing UNICEF's mission to uphold children's rights across global, regional, and local levels. Collaborating with CSOs is essential for UNICEF to enhance its efforts and achieve impactful results for children. These partnerships enrich UNICEF's programs in both development and humanitarian contexts, ensuring that child-related issues are deeply rooted in the communities, networks, groups, and causes championed by civil society.
This publication, Guidance for Civil Society Organizations on Partnership with UNICEF, has been developed to promote understanding of UNICEF’s partnership principles, processes and practices among both current and prospective civil society partners. It is aligned with UNICEF’s internal procedure that applies to all UNICEF offices when partnering with and transferring resources to CSOs, and it is an update of the previous CSO Facing Handbook following the release of the new programme implementation procedures in 2022.
The handbook describes each step of the partnership and the relevant tools to use. It is hoped that it supports the timely establishment of high-quality, results-focused partnerships that, in turn, deliver high-quality, results-focused development and humanitarian programmes.