Publications

Real Choices, Real Lives Final Report: Fin...

Explore findings from an 18 year global study following girls from birth to adulthood. See how poverty, gender expectations, education, health, violence and climate pressures have shaped their lives.

Worldwide Annual Review 2025

A summary of our global impact for children, particularly girls, in 2025.

State of the World’s Girls 2025: Let...

Hear the voices of 251 girls and young women from 15 countries as they share their personal stories of child marriage and its lasting impact.

Education Investments in Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa…

Plan International in Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa commissioned a study to assess the extent to which the Education Sector budget is adequate, gender-responsive and inclusive.

Gender Transformative Change in Emergencies

Plan International’s Global Disaster Risk Management Technical Team's FAQs for Gender Transformative Change in Emergencies.

Young People and Green Skills

Young people are concerned by the climate crisis but feel ill-equipped for jobs that will pave the way for a sustainable future.

Urban Research Series: Tackling Urban Fragility

This report gives an overview of the theory of change in our Safe and Inclusive Cities programme in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda.

Girls Challenging the Gender Rules: Benin, Togo, and Uganda…

All 37 cohort girls have shown resistance to gendered norms that determine what is expected of them as girls in their contexts.

Girls Challenging the Gender Rules: Cambodia, the Philippines…

All 46 cohort girls across Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippines are challenging expectations of girls in their communities.

Girls Challenging the Gender Rules: Brazil, Dominican Republic,…

All 35 Cohort girls across Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador are challenging expectations of girls in their communities. Find out how!

Girls Challenging the Gender Rules (2019)

In this Synthesis Report, we summarise findings from across a set of three regional reports, which were compiled in 2019.

Regional Update: Africa (2022)

This report gives unique insights into what it means to grow up as a girl in Benin, Togo and Uganda.

Regional Update: Asia (2022)

This report gives unique insights into what it means to grow up as a girl in Cambodia, Philippines and Vietnam.

Regional Update: Latin America (2022)

This report gives unique insights into what it means to grow up as a girl in Brazil, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador.

World Hunger and its Impact on Girls (2022)

This brief investigates the effect hunger crisis has on girls and young women whose experiences often go unacknowledged and unaddressed.

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