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G7 Scorecard: How we calculate scores
This 2025 #BeBrave G7 Scorecard builds on the first iteration of the analysis conducted in 2022, assessing each G7 country on how they are responding to childhood sexual violence at home and around the world.
Previous G7 Communiqués have made bold commitments to ending sexual violence against children. The scorecard assesses whether the G7 has delivered on these. This is a particularly poignant year in which to undertake this analysis, as the G7 countries meet on the 50th anniversary in Kananaskis, Canada.
The 2025 #BeBrave G7 Scorecard draws on the most up-to-date data available across G7 countries and global reporting bodies, as well as from expert insights into progress being made across key indicators. The indicators have been developed and informed by survivor advocates at the heart of the Brave Movement, who have also co-created the demands enshrined in the Brave G7 Call to Action.
While it is clear that there is momentum building around tackling childhood sexual violence across the G7, the kind of progress that needs to be made to adequately tackle a global crisis of this
scale around the world is still absent.
Methodology
Each G7 country has been ranked according to how they have responded to childhood sexual violence at home and around the world.
The indicators have been developed and informed by survivor advocates at the heart of the Brave Movement, who co-created demands such as the G7 Call to Action.
Indicators:
- Elimination of statutes of limitations in relation to childhood sexual violence across Criminal Law. Many survivors disclose abuse only decades after it occurred due to trauma, fear, or delayed recognition. Removing these time limitations acknowledges the unique nature of these crimes, and respects survivors’ journeys toward disclosure and justice.
- Creating a safe internet free of all online forms of sexual violence. Digital technologies have expanded venues for childhood sexual violence, requiring comprehensive legal frameworks addressing production, reproduction, distribution and dissemination of abuse material.
- Engagement with survivors through a government-supported or endorsed survivor council at a departmental, regional or national level. Formalized, and government-supported councils ensure policies benefit from lived experience, preventing interventions that may unintentionally cause harm while restoring survivors’ agency.
- Implementation of National Action Plans or strategies to address childhood sexual violence. Comprehensive action plans provide frameworks for coordinated responses across government and civil society, preventing fragmented efforts. Effective plans integrate prevention, healing, and justice components with clear accountability mechanisms.
- Financial investment in development aid for childhood protection, based on contributions to Overseas Development Assistance and UNICEF, as well as forward-looking commitments to planned ODA spending. Without adequate funding, prevention programmes, support services, and justice mechanisms cannot function effectively.
Ranking methodology
Each country has been ranked with a grade of 1-10, on the basis of their performance against each indicator, receiving a sum total which determines their overall ranking. For each of the indicators above, the grade has been determined as follows:
• 0-1.9: Statutes of Limitations begin when the crime is committed.
• 2-3.9: Statutes of Limitations end at age 47 or earlier for all CSA crimes.
• 4-5.9: Statutes of Limitations end at age 48 or later for most serious CSA crimes.
• 6-7.9: No Criminal Statute of Limitations for the most serious CSA crimes.
• 8-10: No Criminal Statute of Limitations for most/all CSA crimes.
• 0-1.9: One or fewer protections are in place, prohibiting production55, reproduction, distribution and dissemination of sexually explicit material containing a child (laws are missing for one or more of the four areas).
• 2-3.9: Two or fewer protections are in place, prohibiting production, reproduction, distribution and dissemination of sexually explicit material containing a child (laws are missing for one or more of the four areas).
• 4-5.9: Three or more protections are in place, prohibiting production, reproduction, distribution and dissemination of sexually explicit material containing a child, however they are not effectively implemented or are inadequate.
• 6-7.9: All four protections are in place, prohibiting production, reproduction, distribution and dissemination of sexually explicit material containing a child, however they are not effectively implemented or are inadequate.
• 8-10: A comprehensive framework prohibiting production, reproduction, distribution and dissemination of sexually explicit material containing a child is in place, with demonstrated evidence of implementation through enforcement mechanisms and regular monitoring of
effectiveness.
• 0-1.9: No government engagement with survivor councils at any level.
• 2-3.9: Informal commitment to create a survivor council, but this has not yet been created.
• 4-5.9: Establishment of a Survivors Council at departmental, regional or national level, with limited government support or endorsement.
• 6-7.9: Formal commitment to create a national survivors council, but this has not yet been created.
• 8-10: Establishment of a fully functioning national survivor council with government support or endorsement.
• 0-2: No National Action plan or strategy to address childhood sexual violence.
• 2-4: Informal discussions initiated to create a National Action plan or strategy to address
childhood sexual violence.
• 4-6: Formal commitment to create a National Action plan or strategy to address childhood sexual
violence.
• 6-8: National Action Plan that addresses childhood sexual violence but does not include
adequate programmes and policies that include prevention, healing and justice.
• 8-10: Implementation of National Action Plans or comprehensive strategies to address childhood sexual violence that include adequate programmes and policies for prevention, healing, and justice.
a) Based on contributions to Overseas Development Assistance (adjusted for GNI) & Contributions to UNICEF.
Contribution to Overseas Development Assistance is constructed using the following OECD data: ODA as a percent of GNI (grant equivalent) in 2023.
• 0-1.9 (Dark Red): 0.00 - 0.29: 0.29 or less is considered a very minimal contribution.
• 2-3.9 (Red): 0.30 - 0.39: 0.39 or less is considered a minimal contribution.
• 4-5.9 (Orange): 0.40 - 0.49: 0.40 or more demonstrates some contribution, but it is a vastly inadequate investment compared to the country’s proportionate fair share (based on their GDP) of the billions required to end childhood sexual violence.
• 6-7.9 (Yellow): 0.50 - 0.69: 0.50 or more demonstrates some contribution, but it is an inadequate investment compared to the country’s proportionate fair share (based on their GDP) of the billions required to end childhood sexual violence.
• 8-10 (Green): 0.70+: Proportionate fair share (based on their GDP) of the billions required to end childhood sexual violence.- Contributions to UNICEF: Contributions to UNICEF, per capita in USD, is constructed using the 2023 Funding Compendium.
• 0-1.9 (Dark Red): 0.00 - 1.99: USD 1.99 or less is considered a minimal contribution.
• 2-3.9 (Red): 2.00 - 3.99: USD 3.99 or less is considered a minimal contribution.
• 4-5.9 (Orange): 4.00 - 5.99: USD 4.00 or more demonstrates some contribution, but it is an inadequate investment compared to the country’s proportionate fair share (based on their GDP) of the billions required to end childhood sexual violence.
• 6-7.9 (Yellow): 6.00 - 7.99: USD 6.00 or more demonstrates some contribution, but it is an inadequate investment compared to the country’s proportionate fair share (based on their GDP) of the billions required to end childhood sexual violence.
• 8-10 (Green): 8.00+: Proportionate fair share (based on their GDP) of the billions required to end childhood sexual violence.
b) Based on public commitments made to planned ODA spending in 2025.
• 0-1.9: Public statements made indicating that ODA spending on tackling childhood sexual violence will be cut almost entirely/entirely in coming years.
• 2-4.9: Public statements made indicating that ODA spending on tackling childhood sexual violence will be affected by minor to significant cuts in coming years.
• 5-5.9: Public statements made indicating that ODA spending on tackling childhood sexual violence will remain the same in coming years, despite the growing need for greater investment.
• 6-7.9: Public statements made indicating that ODA spending on tackling childhood sexual violence will increase to some degree in coming years.
• 8-10: Public statements made indicating that ODA spending on tackling childhood sexual violence will increase significantly to meet the growing need for greater investment.
Calculating overall ranking:
We divided the total number of points accrued under each indicator by the number of indicators (5). Note: Each country’s overall score for financial investment is calculated by combining the scores of sub-indicators A (i & ii weighted equally) & B (as above), weighted equally, with points for both indicators averaged to determine the overall score for the indicator.
Each country’s overall grading is thereby determined by adding up the scores across all five indicators and dividing by the number of indicators (5) to get the average score. This produces a final score between 0-10
- To convert the numerical scores into meaningful ranking categories, we applied the following ranking:
a) 0-1.9: Insufficient action across most or all indicators
b) 2.0-3.9: Some progress, but inadequate in most areas
c) 4.0-5.9: Mixed performance, with substantial room for improvement
d) 6.0-7.9: Significant action with some areas for improvement
e) 8.0-10: Exemplary commitment across indicators
