Plan’s programmes have been designed to address the main issues affecting children in Sudan:

• children’s health
• water, sanitation and hygiene
• learning for life
• sustainable economic security.

Children’s health

A child receiving immunisation in a community health unit in Dweim.

We work with children and communities to identify the most pressing health needs, and support them on the management of health interventions – such as immunisation, malaria control and nutrition.

Plan provides basic medical equipment and health training to primary healthcare providers, mothers and community members. From HIV awareness days to malaria action week, we help promote behavioural change through health-focused social events.

We also promote birth registration so that children receive an official identity and access their right to social services, including healthcare.

Water, sanitation and hygiene

Plan works to build up knowledge on hygiene, especially with children.

This programme works with community groups, especially with women and children, to build up local knowledge and strategies on hygiene and environmental sanitation.

We help to improve the availability and quality of water and sanitation services by training community groups to manage schemes.

Plan also helps communities to analyse their vulnerability to disasters and develop community disaster preparedness plans.

Learning for life

Plan works to promote safe, healthy and child-friendly learning environments.

Plan supports communities in developing education plans with an emphasis on girls’ education, children’s participation in education issues and discouraging corporal punishment.

We help develop school improvement plans through training committees and by ensuring the active involvement of children, women, teachers, Parents and Teachers Associations (PTAs) and education authorities in managing the schools and sustaining education quality.

We strive to ensure safe and abuse-free schools, and advocate for free and compulsory education for all children.

Sustainable economic security

A group of farmers in Dweim celebrates after a training by Plan on new farming techniques

This programme helps families to become resilient to economic shocks, learn marketable skills, and plan for the future to ensure they can meet their children’s needs.

Through the farmers field school approach, we work to improve agricultural productivity through training on water harvesting and irrigation techniques, post-harvest produce storage and marketing

Farmers and veterinary workers are trained in animal husbandry and fishing practices, as well as how to address environmental conservation and protection.

Plan trains vulnerable families and youth in vocational skills and business management and also on how to increase access to grassroots financial services and encourage formal financial institutions to expand their coverage.