Publications

Still We Dream

This year’s State of the World’s Girls Report focuses on the experiences of young people whose lives are dominated by conflict.

The Girls’ Pact for the Future

Girls from around the world have developed the Girls’ Pact for the Future to share their vision for a better world with gender equality at its heart.

Real Choices, Real Lives: Research Series

We're following the lives of 118 girls from birth until they turn 18 in 2024 to understand the real experiences of girls in a gendered world.

Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programme Standards

A suite of materials outlining Plan International's comprehensive sexuality education programme standards. These standards comprise a comprehensive, human rights-based, sex-positive, gender…

Impact of COVID-19 on Youth in the Lake Chad Region

The crisis affecting the Lake Chad Basin is one of the most severe humanitarian emergencies in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic will further impact people living in humanitarian contexts with…

The Case for Holistic Investment in Girls

In this report, Citi Global Insights and Plan International argue that a comprehensive and fully-costed series of interventions allowing economies to attain 100% upper secondary school completion…

Cash and Voucher Assistance for Adolescents

During crises, the institutions, systems and community cohesion that normally support adolescent development break down. This report documents evidence and effective practices related to adolescent-focused…

Cash Transfer and Child Protection

Cash Transfer and Child Protection: An integrated approach to address the needs of unaccompanied and separated adolescents in the Central African Republic

Cash Transfer and Education

This report assesses Plan International's Tawasol: Learning for Coexistence Project in Egypt to understand its strengths and weaknesses, including implementation challenges and successes, risks…

Halting Lives: The Impact of COVID-19 on Girls

This research report looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on girls and young women, with insights from over 7,000 girls across 14 countries.

Mainstreaming Gender Equality in COVID-19 Response

This guidance note sets out minimal and practical standards to be applied through all Plan International Canada programming to mitigate and address the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Young LGBTIQ+ People and COVID-19

Suggestions for understanding the unique needs, vulnerabilities and capabilities of young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Questioning/queer people during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Girls’ back to school guide

This guide provides targeted inputs to ensure continuity of learning during school closures, and comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive…

Laughter and Play Manual

The Laughter and Play manual has been developed for adolescent girls and boys between the ages of 10 and 19 years, who are living in emergency and protracted crisis settings.

Girls’ Platform for Action

To support girl’s engagement in the Beijing+25 process, Plan International has undertaken consultations with girls across 12 countries to understand their views and priorities and to create…

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