Publications
Adolescent Girls Creating Safer Cities: Harnessing the Potential of Communication for Development (C4D)
This report looks at how Communication for Development (C4D) gives girls a voice with which they can take an active role in the development of safe urban environments.
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Plan's policy on Gender Equality
This policy outlines Plan's vision and commitments to gender equality.
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Because I am a Girl: So, what about boys?
The fifth in a series of annual reports examining the rights of girls, focuses on why working for gender equality must involve boys and men.
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Because You're a Girl: Growing up in the Commonwealth
This report by Plan UK and the Royal Commonwealth Society reveals the best and worst places in the Commonwealth to be born a girl.
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Because they are girls
This publication is the report of a desk study looking at the difference Plan projects and programmes have made to girls' lives.
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Because I am a Girl: Digital and Urban Frontiers 2010
Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2010 - Digital and Urban Frontiers is the fourth in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.
Real Choices, Real Lives 2010
The 'Real Choices, Real Lives' study was set up in 2007 to follow 142 girls from birth until their 9th birthday in 2015. It is featured every year in Plan's Because I am a Girl annual report on the state of the world's girls.
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Because I am a girl: Girls in the global economy 2009
The third in a series of annual reports examining the rights of girls, focuses on the global economy and warns that failing to send girls to school is costing developing countries billions of pounds each year.
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Because I am a girl: In the shadow of war 2008
This is the second in a series of eight reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.
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Because I am a girl: the state of the world's girls 2007
The first in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.
Paying the price: The economic cost of failing to educate girls
This report shows that failure to offer girls the same educational opportunities as boys costs developing countries almost $100 billion each year in lost economic growth.
Behind the screen
An inside look at gender inequality in Asia. Revised edition.
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