Our Partners
World Vision engages with a number of external partners working in urban poverty reduction and community development, including the UN's General Assembly of Partners for Habitat III, UN-Habitat, Cities Alliance, UNICEF, ILO, UNDP and several academic institutions.
World Vision is Co-Chair of the General Assembly of Partners' Children and Youth Stakeholder Group for Habitat III - an officially recognised UN platform for major stakeholder engagement in the formulation, implementation, monitoring, review and implementation of The New Urban Agenda. As part of this role, World Vision advocates for the needs of children and youth and their critical role as key contributors in local, national and global policies and processes that shape our future cities.
In 2013, World Vision signed a global memorandum of understanding with UN-Habitat, establishing a global partnership. We are a standing committee member and lead partner of UN-Habitat's World Urban Campaign – a global advocacy and partnership platform raising awareness on sustainable urban development. In this role, World Vision provides the child wellbeing lens to how city stakeholders should plan, build and manage 'The City We Need’ in order to achieve a sustainable urban future.
Since 2011, World Vision partnered with RMIT's Global Cities Research Institute who host the Global Compact - Cities Programme, the urban arm of the UN Global Compact. World Vision is a global advisor to the Institute to support its research priorities and strengthen its evidence based impact for programming effectiveness in urban environments.
In February 2016, World Vision International and the UN Global Compact – Cities Programme co-hosted the first Australian Urban Thinkers Campus, themed “Ethical Cities: Locking in Liveability”, at RMIT University in Melbourne. Read the report.