Publications

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.

Our Voices for our Tomorrow

This report presents young people’s thoughts, worries, ideas, vision, and recommendations for a gender-equal future.

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.

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…

Becoming an Adult in Internal Displacement

Raising awareness on the need to include young internally displaced persons in plans to prevent and respond to displacement, to ensure adequate support for all and to make the most of the resilience…

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. …

COVID-19 and Child Marriage in West and Central Africa

This joint brief from Girls Not Brides and Plan International outlines the impacts of the pandemic on child marriage. It provides recommendations and an urgent call for action for governments,…

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…

Impact of COVID-19 on Girls in Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and added yet another layer of vulnerability to girls in the African continent.

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…

African Girls in the COVID-19 Pandemic

As countries across Africa experience the impact of COVID-19 across health systems, economies and communities, progress made in the last decade in achieving the rights of adolescent girls’…

Girls call for a revolutionary reset

This report is for power holders everywhere, including governments and policy makers: we ask you to hear our calls for change and engage with us to co-create this better normal. It is also for…

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