The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK)

Who we are

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. Across more than 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, to build a better world for everyone.

The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) raises funds for UNICEF’s emergency and development work for children. We also promote and protect children’s rights in the UK and internationally. We are a UK charity, entirely funded by supporters.

Our culture and values

UNICEF is driven by five core values: care, respect, integrity, trust and accountability. A range of initiatives has been established to ensure these values form the basis of UNICEF operations and guide the world’s leading organization for children and young people.

To remain true to our mandate to help children and defend their rights, UNICEF’s internal culture must value and nurture the unique contributions made by our diverse global workforce. How we work – how we deliver results for children – cannot be separated from the results themselves. As an organization that champions the rights of children globally, we as UNICEF must champion the same standards for our own staff. 

Respecting, acknowledging and listening to our people will help us achieve lasting results for every child.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

A diverse and inclusive working culture that empowers and enables all our people to deliver their best work for children. To achieve this vision, Unicef UK will:

Create a safe and open working culture by ensuring there is no statistically significant difference in engagement scores across race, disability or sexual orientation by end 2023 Achieve significantly more diverse representation across each job level in our workforce to better reflect the U.K. population and other organisations within our sector by end 2025

These strategic goals will provide the platform for delivering our ambition of being a truly diverse and inclusive organisation; one that reflects the communities we are in, as well as enabling all our people to feel safe to bring their true selves to work

We are committed to Unicef UK achieving our vision for diversity and inclusion. We recognise the amount of systemic change this will require, and therefore how challenging it will be. As such we are not clear how long it will take us to fully deliver our ambition. But we want to challenge ourselves, we will have clear milestones on our journey, and we will be transparent about our progress.