Breadth of Impact In 2014, World Vision UK projects benefitted over 5 million children across 35 countries. This is 29 percent more children than last year, mainly as a result of a number of large emergency responses and some large grants. 87 percent of those children are located in ‘fragile’ states, those countries failing to provide basic services to poor people because they are unwilling or unable to do so. MAIN IMAGE: Pre-school children enjoy their new classroom and playground, in UK-funded Libo Kemkem Area Development Programme in Ethiopia. © Jolan Rivera/World Vision Breadth of impact (global overview of beneficiaries) In 2014, World Vision UK supported a total of 378 projects19 across 35 countries funded by a combination of institutional and individual donors. Total number of beneficiaries: 8,459,323 Of these, children made up 5,010,998 This total number of beneficiaries is 22 percent up on the 2013 number, and the proportion of children is greater, with a 29 percent increase on the 2013 number of children benefitting20. This is primarily due to both the increase in humanitarian responses (in particular the Syria crisis) and also starting some new large grant-funded projects. Child beneficiaries by sector As a child focused agency, we are particularly interested in the number and breakdown of child beneficiaries. Looking at the numbers by sector, there has been an increase in the number of children benefitting from health programmes21 (now more than half of all child beneficiaries) and emergency responses (nearly a quarter of all child beneficiaries). For 2014, the number of children reached in the child protection sector is down on previous years (21,190), but if we take into account how child protection issues are also addressed under the heading of other sectors (such as emergency response and community empowerment) we can conclude that 51,566 children benefitted from child protection focused programming22. The diagram overleaf breaks down numbers of beneficiaries of emergency response by country. Health, 2,601,461 (51.9%) Livelihoods, 306,297 (6.1%) Protection, 21,190 (0.4%) Education, 425,373 (8.5%) Emergency Response, 1,161,938 (23.2%) Community empowerment, 239,384 (4.8%) Disaster mitigation, 47,198 (0.9%) Other, 208,157 (4.2%) Figure 1: Child Beneficiaries by sector 19 These projects do not include our UK based advocacy initiatives, for which we do not use a ‘direct beneficiary’ approach in assessing impact (see the child protection section for a discussion on our approach). This total is also just the number of projects funded by World Vision UK. For a global overview of our contribution see the World Vision International annual reports at http://www.wvi.org/annualreviews). 20 World Vision UK’s 2011-2015 strategy uses a cumulative beneficiaries total to measure progress – for more details see the World Vision UK 2014 Annual Report located at http://www.worldvision.org.uk/who-we-are/strategy/ 21 Under the health category we also include Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and nutrition projects. 22 This illustrates a wider point that sectors do overlap. To avoid double counting, this chart just reflects the ‘primary sector’ that we allocate to each of our projects. 16 World Vision 2014 Impact Report World Vision Impact Report 2014 17 Child beneficiaries per region Changes in the regional breakdown are largely as a result of the geography of emergency responses in 2014. These have been more in Asia (Philippines), the Middle East (Syria), Southern Africa (DRC23) and West Africa (the regional food crisis) and the decrease in East Africa reflects the completion of the response to the Horn of Africa drought. The following graphic shows the geographical breakdown (by region) of child beneficiaries across the 16 emergencies in 16 countries. 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 ca a fri W es tA Af ut he rn Eu rn te as /E er FY13 FY14 M id dl e Ea st Am ric pe ro ea rib ar /C ica Ea tin La So a ric Af st As n 500,000 ia No. children benefitting 2,500,000 Graph 1: Child Beneficiaries by region 23 Within World Vision’s regional structure, the DRC comes under the Southern Africa region 24 We appreciate that it is more precise to talk about fragile ‘contexts’ since some states have particularly fragile areas within their borders but may as a whole be more resilient. However, operationalising this definition is more challenging, and we as such use the OECD definition of what constitutes a fragile state (http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=7235) and use their list of fragile states from 2013 (http://www.oecd.org/dac/incaf/ FragileStates2013.pdf). We use World Vision’s own fragility index (which is a composite of various indexes) to identify the ten most fragile states in which World Vision operates. 18 World Vision 2014 Impact Report Child beneficiaries by context World Vision UK’s strategy prioritises the most vulnerable children, many of whom live in what are referred to as ‘fragile states’. These are countries failing to provide basic services to poor people because they are unwilling or unable to do so24. In 2014, 87 percent (4.4 million) of child beneficiaries were located in fragile states (up from 78 percent in 2013). Of those, 16 percent were in nine of the ten most fragile states that World Vision operates in, namely and in alphabetical order: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, the DRC, Myanmar, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria. Number of children benefitting from World Vision UK funded projects in fragile states: 4,342,361 In other states: 668,637 Most fragile states Other fragile states Non-fragile states Figure 2: Child Beneficiaries by context BELOW: Naing, 8, enjoys a drink of clean water purified by a bio sand filter. The local well is contaminated with arsenic, so this water is from a river near Naing’s home in Myanmar and is made safe to drink through the filter tank. ©2015 Khaing Min Htoo/World Vision World Vision Impact Report 2014 19