Our Funders
Young Lives is a collaborative partnership between research institutes, universities and NGOs in the four study countries and the University of Oxford. Young Lives has been core-funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), with additional funding from the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Irish Aid, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Oak Foundation, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Hanoi, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The views expressed are those of the authors. They are not necessarily those of, or endorsed by, Young Lives, the University of Oxford, DFID or other funders.
Young Lives is core-funded from 2001 to 2018 by UK aid from the Department for International Development (DFID) for the benefit of developing countries.
Further support has been provided by the following:
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation for a research and policy programme on child marriage in India and early education in Ethiopia (2015-18).
Irish Aid for school surveys in Ethiopia and Vietnam (2015-18);
The Oak Foundation for work on violence affecting children in Ethiopia (2015-18), a study on child work/labour in Ethiopia (2012-14), on risk and resilience (orphanhood and parental absence in Ethiopia and child work and migration in India) (2009-12) and support to the Child Research and Practice Forum in Ethiopia (2010-18);
UNICEF Office of Research–Innocenti for a multi country study on the drivers of violence affecting children (2015-16);
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a study on Gender, Poverty and Transitions to Adulthood, funded under its Global Development and Population Programme (2014-16);
The Bernard van Leer Foundation for a resarch stream on early childhood transitions (2007-12);
The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided co-funding from 2010 to 2014 which enabled us to expand our education research; and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Hanoi supported the Vietnam school survey (2015-16).