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EU Office

Working to ensure the promotion and protection of children's rights is a priority for the EU’s external action
What we do
Our priorities in EU Office
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Girls' rights and gender equality

Challenging social norms and attitudes to achieve transformative change for girls and their communities
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Protecting children from harm

Realising the EU’s commitment to promote, protect and fulfil children’s rights in external action
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Youth economic empowerment

Supporting young people to develop the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the world of work
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Sustainable Development Goals

Working to ensure the Sustainable Development Goals enable all children to reach their full potential
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Humanitarian Aid

Putting children’s rights and wellbeing at the centre of disaster preparedness and response
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Girls' Voices

Connecting girls’ lived realities with the policy changes we need so that girls everywhere can learn, lead, decide and thrive.
Girls' Voices
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Timor-Leste: Helping Youth Raise their Voices

In the Aileu disctrict of Timor Leste, Plan International makes sure that young people can make their voices heard and participate in local decision-making through an EC-funded empowerment project.  

Interview: Closing the skills gap to address youth unemployment

On International Youth Day, Deputy Director-General of DG DevCo Klaus Rudischhauser answered a few questions about the role of the EU in addressing the ever increasing rates of youth unemployment in the world. 

#GirlsVoices: Dreaming of equal opportunities

Flavia, 15, from Brazil, shares her views and ideas on girls' economic empowerment in a guest blog for Girls' Voices. 
Our results to date
  • 85 projects
    funded by the EC running in 2015-16
  • 48 countries
    implementing EC-funded projects
  • 15 million
    people benefiting from EC-funded projects

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EC-funded project combating violence against children in Haiti
EC-funded project combating female infanticide in India
EC-funded project combating violence against children in Kenya
Students celebrate their graduation
Fadi was saved from a forced marriage
Youth economic empowerment Timor Leste
Early Childhood Care and Development in Cambodia
Plan International EC-funded projects
Egypt
EuropeAid: Building an Inclusive Living Environment for Children and Young People with Disabilities
Plan International Egypt
El Salvador
EuropeAid: Youth Economic Empowerment
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Haiti
EuropeAid: Fighting violence against children together
Plan International Haiti
India
EuropeAid: Promoting gender wage parity and non-discrimination in the work environment
Plan International India
India
EuropeAid: Combating the worst forms of discrimination against girls: female infanticide
Plan International India
Indonesia
EuropeAid: Young Women's Economic Empowerment
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Kenya
EuropeAid: Improving Access to Water and Sanitation in Matungulu and Masinga Districts
Plan International Kenya
Kenya
EuropeAid: Child Protection against Violence in Kenya
Plan International Kenya
Mozambique
EuropeAid: Poverty Reduction through Youth Empowerment, Technical Training and Employability
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Niger
EuropeAid: Eradicating early and forced marriage in Dosso Region
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Timor Leste
EuropeAid: Empowerment and inclusion of marginalised youth in the economic and political development of Timor-Leste
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South Sudan
EuropeAid: Empowering NSAs to provide youth with alternative livelihood opportunities for poverty reduction and peace building
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Zambia
EuropeAid: Making law work for girls and boys
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Sri Lanka
EuropeAid: Empowering women through e-governance
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Tanzania
EuropeAid: Preventing and Responding to Violence against Children in Tanzania: Linking community systems to a national model for Child Protection
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Philippines
EuropeAid: Collective Action to Promote Non-violent and Protective Society for Children
Plan International Philippines
Nicaragua
ECHO: Urban Risk Reduction in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
Plan International Nicaragua
Myanmar
ECHO: Safer Coastal and Urban Communities through Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in Myanmar
Plan International Myanmar
Myanmar
ECHO: EU Children of Peace
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Central America
ECHO: Institutionalisation of drought risk management tools and processes in Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras
Plan International Guatemala
South America
ECHO: More education, less risk: Strengthening disaster risk reduction and resilience through education in Paraguay, Ecuador and Colombia
Plan International Ecuador
Nepal
ECHO: Shelter and Non-Food-Items relief to earthquake affected populations of the West and Central Development regions of Nepal
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Nepal
ECHO: Promoting and strengthening school safety in Nepal through operationalizing the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF)
Plan International Nepal
Cameroon
ECHO: Nigerian Refugees WaSH Assistance: meeting life saving needs and preventing disease in Minawao Camp
Plan International Cameroon
Uganda
ECHO: Promoting Education, Protection and Peace for South Sudan refugee boys and girls in Adjumani District
Plan International Uganda
El Salvador
ECHO: A participatory and inclusive approach to resilient communities in La Libertad department
Plan International El Salvador
Bangladesh
ECHO: Enhancing inclusive disaster resilience in Bangladesh
Plan International Bangladesh
Bangladesh
EuropeAid: Creating an enabling environment for young people to claim and access their Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
Plan International Bangladesh
Ethiopia
EuropeAid: Combatting FGM by campaigning and supporting Community-Based Organisations
Plan International Ethiopia
Ethiopia
ECHO: Protection of boys and girls displaced by the South Sudanese conflict and those living in host communities
Plan International Ethiopia
Benin
EuropeAid: Action for the improvement of local governance and citizens' participation in local development
Plan International Benin
Burkina Faso
EuropeAid: Improved acess to water and sanitation services for women and children
Plan International Burkina Faso
Cambodia
EuropeAid: Promoting Child-Friendly Communities through the Development of a National Child Protection System
Plan International Cambodia
Egypt
EuropeAid: Youth engagement and voice
Plan International Egypt
Ghana
EuropeAid: Young voices: Enhancing transformative change, good governance and accountability in maternal health delivery
Plan International Ghana
Guinea Bissau
EuropeAid: Community-Based Action Tackling female genital cutting
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Honduras
EuropeAid: Building citizenship for the rights of children and youth
Plan International Honduras
Kenya
EuropeAid: Youth Action for Open Governance and Accountability at County Level through ICTs and Media
Plan International Kenya
Laos
EuropeAid: Building Civil Society from the village up: participation, rights and gender equity for ethnic group adolescents
Plan International Laos
Liberia
EuropeAid: Light up Our Futures
Plan International Liberia
Malawi
EuropeAid: Peri-Urban Sanitation and Hygiene Project in Mzuzu City
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Mali
EuropeAid: Improved living conditions of children and their families thanks to the access to modern and affordable energy services in 30 poor communities
Plan International Mali
Pakistan
EuropeAid: Provision of access to market-driven training and employment opportunities
Plan International Pakistan
Rwanda
EuropeAid: Empowering Youth through an Inclusive Cooperative Movement in Rwanda
Plan International Rwanda
Sierra Leone
EuropeAid: Food Poverty Reduction Initiative
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Sierra Leone
EuropeAid: Child Survival and Development
Plan International Sierra Leone
Sudan
EuropeAid: Empowering At-Risk Groups to Secure Climate Resilient Livelihoods
Plan International Sudan
Tanzania
EuropeAid: Preventing child marriage and FGM in high risk communities in Tanzania to support girls to realise their rights
Plan International Tanzania
Timor Leste
EuropeAid: Creating a Healthy Environment for Children in Rural Communities
Plan International Timor Leste
Togo
EuropeAid: Promotion of young people's right to sexual and reproductive health
Plan International Togo
Togo
EuropeAid: Promotion of children's right to water and environmental health
Plan International Togo
Uganda
EuropeAid: Empowering youth for sustainable livelihoods
Plan International Uganda
Uganda
EuropeAid: Combatting silent violence against younger children in post-conflict districts of Northern Uganda
Plan International Uganda
Ecuador
ECHO: Support to Public Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Coordination Mechanisms in Ecuador
Plan International Ecuador
Philippines
ECHO: Scaling Up Resilience in Governance (SURGE)
Plan International Philippines
Brazil
EuropeAid: Bridges to the Future: Employment Solutions for vulnerable youth
Plan International Brazil
Cambodia
EuropeAid: Ensuring a brighter future for the most vulnerable children through the promotion of integrated early childhood care and development
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Central America
EuropeAid: Young people and civil society united for the defence of their rights
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El Salvador
EuropeAid: Youth, civil society and the community working together for the full implementation of sexual and reproductive rights
Plan International El Salvador
Tanzania
ECHO: Child protection and hygiene promotion strenghtening for Burundian refugees in Tanzania
Plan International Tanzania
Central America
ECHO: Protecting vulnerable groups in disaster preparedness and response through the incorporation of principles of humanitarian protection in Central America
Plan International Honduras
Philippines
ECHO: Emergency Response to populations affected by Typhoon Haiyan
Plan International Philippines
Philippines
ECHO: Restoring Integrity and Resilience of the Internally Displaced Populations in the Philippines
Plan International Philippines
Vietnam
ECHO: Early recovery assistance to Typhoon and flood affected children and their families in Central Vietnam
Plan International Vietnam
Vietnam
ECHO: Joint Partnership to support the advancement of the National Community-based Disaster Risk Management programme and the action plan on Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change
Plan International Vietnam
Uganda
ECHO: Promoting Education, Protection and Peace for South Sudan (PEPPS) refugee boys and girls in Adjumani District, Uganda
Plan International Uganda
Kenya
EuropeAid: VaC- Integrated approaches to child protection against violence in Kenya
Plan Kenya
Ghana
EuropeAid: Young Voices: enhancing transformative change, good governance and accountability in maternal health delivery
Ghana: Youth take the lead in addressing poor health services
Paraguay
ECHO: Strengthening institutional and community preparedness and coordination capacities for disaster risk reduction
Plan International Paraguay
Dominican Republic
ECHO: Mainstreaming resilience and ensuring a timely response to food and nutrition insecurity related to slow onset crisis via the improvement of absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities, in the Dominican Republic
Plan Dominican Republic
Paraguay
ECHO: Establishment and maintenance of basic living and sanitary conditions for populations and the most vulnerable groups affected by floods in Nanawa and José Falcon
Plan International Paraguay
Tanzania
ECHO: Minimize and mitigate the negative impact of displacement and ensure the protection of vulnerable Burundian refugees in Tanzania
Plan International Tanzania
Dominican Republic
ECHO: Strengthening urban resilience through humanitarian protection, shelter and communication in Santo Domingo
Plan Dominican Republic
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