Girls at a Plan-supported youth media children's club

Plan Zambia implements 4 programmes that provide children, families and their communities with the skills, knowledge and opportunities they need to make meaningful choices in their lives.

Plan aims to ensure that the rights of children, as outlined by the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Children, are realised.

Child protection and child participation

Working collaboratively with families, communities, and law enforcement personnel, traditional leaders and government, Plan promotes and protects children’s rights by increasing knowledge on all forms of violence including corporal punishment, bullying in schools, sexual abuse, and child labour.

Through the implementation of Plan’s global Learn Without Fear campaign to end violence in schools, and Because I am a Girl campaign to ensure girls’ rights, we advocate for effective implementation of policies. Plan facilitates child rights and gender training, including training community paralegal volunteers.  

Education

As a pioneer and leading organisation in early childhood care and development (ECCD) in Zambia, Plan aims to ensure that children are given opportunities for quality ECCD and primary education. 

Plan supports and works with communities to establish ECCD centres, and advocates to ensure that primary schools have a safe, healthy, learning environment. 

Health

Plan promotes active community engagement in health programmes, focusing on evidence based approaches in nutrition and safe motherhood, as well as Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), which educates communities about the importance of sanitation and helps them to construct and maintain their own latrines.

Plan collaborates with the Ministry of Health, other non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations to provide quality health services to children across Zambia.  

We also advocate for community integrated management of childhood illnesses, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and AIDS projects, and integrated sexual reproductive health services for children and youth.

Economic empowerment

Through innovative and sustainable approaches, Plan Zambia’s empowerment programme includes helping youth and communities to gain life skills in agriculture, establishing savings and loan schemes, and providing business training - including food processing and preservation. 

This has resulted in increased agricultural productivity and more job opportunities in the formal and non-formal sectors. 

Read more about Plan’s work in Zambia.