Tools and services

Improve your business by making children’s rights part of your sustainability strategy

Increase your social impact

Global Child Forum calls on businesses to be heroes.

In protecting and respecting children’s rights, companies can help lift us into a world where our youth can thrive.

We offer the resources to support corporates and investors on this journey.

Our tools and services are designed to help you improve your business – safeguarding children’s rights by placing them at the core of your sustainability strategy.

What do we offer?

Take a look below!

Guides & Other Resources

Global Child Forum Business Academy

Collaborate with peers and boost your company’s approach to children’s rights.

Child Labour Policy Guide

Find out how to apply a child-centered approach within operations and supply chains.

Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence

A learning paper for businesses and investors in increasingly regulated supply chains.

Children’s Participation Guide

Advice on including children in your business decision-making processes.

The Magnifier – Child Rights Knowledge Test

Learn your knowledge gaps, risks and opportunities – in only ten minutes.

Children’s Rights Self-Assessment

Analyse your strengths, weaknesses and improvement areas on child rights issues.

Benchmark Scorecard Feedback Service

Our experts guide you through your company scorecard.

Sustainable Investment

Working together with the financial industry

Our tools and services can help investors understand and mitigate child rights risks.

Interested in accessing special data sets curated for the financial industry?

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Talk to our experts

Our team is ready to help

Nina Vollmer

Director Child Rights and Sustainability

As the organisation’s senior expert, Nina conducts research and supports companies on how to improve their understanding of, and impact on children’s lives. She develops and works with the tools and services that Global Child Forum offers, including the Business Academy, Scorecard Feedback service, guidance and best practices. Nina also supports with content creation for events and communications. With responsibility for the methodology behind the Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights Benchmark, Nina is the appointed spokesperson for benchmark activities, and regularly speaks at key events and conferences. Nina holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Lund University (Sweden), and has worked both nationally and internationally with human rights and development within the NGO sector.
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Sara Garmer

Head of Business Development

As Head of Business Development at Global Child Forum, Sara is responsible for identifying and improving tools and services in order to help businesses enhance their efforts to support children’s rights. Sara has over 15 years’ experience from business development, e-com and business transformation within the retail industry, most recently from H&M and Afound. Sara holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Stockholm University and has completed a course in Business Sustainability Management via University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
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Matthew Goodwin

Head of Sustainable Investing

Matthew is pioneering a new role at Global Child Forum as Head of Sustainable Investing, responsible for building Global Child Forum’s relationship with the financial services sector and ensuring that our sustainability data on children’s rights is made available to investors, asset managers and asset owners, helping them integrate children’s rights into their operations and investment decision-making process. Prior to joining Global Child Forum, he spent eight years at Lloyds Banking Group in London. Matthew studied Law and French at Université Paul Cézanne, Aix Marseille III and The University of Sheffield.
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