--- description: Find out why UNICEF Child-Lens Investing Framework is one of the best inventions of 2024 title: UNICEF Child-Lens Investing Framework: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49cfe8b10d8940ed/698a8a1d18689277686cd345/UNI623762.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # Funding Kids by [Jeff Wilser](/author/jeff-wilser/) ## Jeff Wilser Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  On 4 August 2024, a girl washes her hands and face from a UNICEF-supported water system, powered by a solar pump and reservoir on the nearby hill, providing safe drinking water at Afghanistan's eastern Torkham border with Pakistan in Nangarhar province. On 4 August 2024, a girl washes her hands and face from a UNICEF-supported water system, powered by a solar pump and reservoir on the nearby hill, providing safe drinking water at Afghanistan's eastern Torkham border with Pakistan in Nangarhar province.Karimi–UNICEF Across the globe, nearly [six out of ten](https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/education/commitment-to-action-on-foundational-learning-lac#:~:text=Nearly%20six%2Dout%2Dof%2D,out%2Dof%2Dten%20children "undefined") children are unable to read before the age of 10\. And more than 47 million children have been [displaced](https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-migration-and-displacement/displacement/#data "undefined") due to conflict. Grim statistics like these are why UNICEF created the first-ever “child lens” for impact investing, a tool for potential funders to analyze how companies might benefit (or impede) the well-being of children. The framework—which includes toolkits, due diligence questionnaires, and metrics to track—is freely available online and already being used by investing firms like Calvert Impact. “Our goal is to steward and to ensure that the multi-trillion dollar capital markets are considering children’s well-being, and optimizing for those outcomes,” says Cristina Shapiro, Chief Strategy Officer and President of UNICEF’s Impact Fund for Children. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094781/unicef-child-lens-investing-framework/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094781/unicef-child-lens-investing-framework/"},"headline":"UNICEF Child-Lens Investing Framework: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:24:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:31.244Z","description":"Find out why UNICEF Child-Lens Investing Framework is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094781/unicef-child-lens-investing-framework/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49cfe8b10d8940ed/698a8a1d18689277686cd345/UNI623762.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeff Wilser","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeff-wilser/"}],"creator":"Jeff Wilser","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49cfe8b10d8940ed/698a8a1d18689277686cd345/UNI623762.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094781/unicef-child-lens-investing-framework/","name":"UNICEF Child-Lens Investing Framework: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```