Meet the girl keeping her community safe from disasters in Nepal…
Although Nirmala is from a marginalised community, she has learned leadership skills and is taking the lead on preparing her community for disasters.
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Emerging female leaders for safe schools in Nepal
By supporting their schools to prepare for and respond to disasters, women are growing in confidence and taking leading roles in their community.
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Emergencies, Youth empowerment
Tags: Disaster risk management, girls' leadership
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Categories: Emergencies, Youth empowerment
Tags: Disaster risk management, girls' leadership
Stopping child marriage through poetry in Bangladesh
Girls from Bangladesh are convincing their parents to stop arranging child marriages for them through poetry.
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Education, Emergencies, Protection from violence
Tags: child marriage, COVID-19, Disaster risk management
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Categories: Education, Emergencies, Protection from violence
Tags: child marriage, COVID-19, Disaster risk management
Student task force identifies local disaster risks
Shadona, 14, from Bangladesh, is leading a student task force to identify and mitigate risks caused by disasters in her school and community.
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Emergencies, Youth empowerment
Tags: Climate change activism, Disaster risk management, girls' leadership
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Categories: Emergencies, Youth empowerment
Tags: Climate change activism, Disaster risk management, girls' leadership
Engaging young people in accelerating efforts to eliminate child…
This thematic brief focuses on young people's ideas, solutions, and actions to eliminate CEFM.
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Campaigns, Protection from violence, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, Gender-based violence
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Categories: Campaigns, Protection from violence, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, Gender-based violence
Their Time is Now – Time to Act
This analysis aims to systematise the information from 10 Asian countries where young people are supported by Plan International in preventing, reducing, and eliminating CEFM.
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Campaigns, Protection from violence, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, girls' leadership
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Categories: Campaigns, Protection from violence, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, girls' leadership
Inclusive Community Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
This is a series of knowledge management products from the Inclusive Community Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (ICDRM) project.
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Emergencies
Tags: Disaster risk management
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Categories: Emergencies
Tags: Disaster risk management
Youth Activism against Child, Early, and Forced Marriage
This collection of testimonies highlight Plan International’s regional work in Asia-Pacific to eliminate CEFM, as well as to prevent and reduce adolescent pregnancies through focusing on strengthening…
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Campaigns, Education, Protection from violence, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, Comprehensive sexuality education, Gender-based violence, girls' leadership, Teenage pregnancy
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Categories: Campaigns, Education, Protection from violence, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, Comprehensive sexuality education, Gender-based violence, girls' leadership, Teenage pregnancy
Louder than Words is Youth Activism to Eliminate Child Marriage…
“Louder than Words”, a collection of testimonies reflecting girls’ and boys’ activism in collaboration with Plan International in tackling and challenging root-causes of Child, Early,…
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Campaigns, Protection from violence, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Comprehensive sexuality education, girls' leadership, Teenage pregnancy, Youth in media
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Categories: Campaigns, Protection from violence, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Comprehensive sexuality education, girls' leadership, Teenage pregnancy, Youth in media
The Future Is Not Written: The Young Husband and Wife Committee…
Pressured into early marriage, Mai and Lua still actively advocate for girls' rights in their local community
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Campaigns, Protection from violence, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, girls' leadership, Teenage pregnancy
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Categories: Campaigns, Protection from violence, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, girls' leadership, Teenage pregnancy
Taking Down Teenage Taboos: Talking about Sex to Prevent and…
Teenagers in northern Thailand are talking openly about the myths of sex, the dangers and risks of early pregnancy, marrying too young and how to put a condom on
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Campaigns, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, Comprehensive sexuality education, girls' leadership, Menstruation, Teenage pregnancy
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Categories: Campaigns, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Youth empowerment
Tags: Activism, child marriage, Civic engagement, Comprehensive sexuality education, girls' leadership, Menstruation, Teenage pregnancy
From Child Bride to Budding Entrepreneur: The young woman determined…
Being a mother at 16, Kate manages to be a successful entrepreneur
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Plan International Asia-Pacific
Categories: Campaigns, Education, Emergencies, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Skills and work
Tags: Cash and voucher assistance, child marriage, COVID-19, Financial literacy, Livelihoods, Teenage pregnancy, Vocational training, Youth economic empowerment in emergencies
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Categories: Campaigns, Education, Emergencies, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Skills and work
Tags: Cash and voucher assistance, child marriage, COVID-19, Financial literacy, Livelihoods, Teenage pregnancy, Vocational training, Youth economic empowerment in emergencies