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.

Activism in West Africa

This research study provides an insight into the dynamic and vibrant culture of girls’ and young women’s activism in West Africa.

Education Under Attack 2020

This study is published by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), which was formed in 2010 by organisations working in the fields of education in emergencies and conflict-affected…

OPEN Plan: June 2020

This edition of OPENPlan brings to you a selection of eclectic studies that display a breadth of thematic topics to showcase recent and innovative works from Plan International.

Adolescent Programming Toolkit

The Adolescent Programming Toolkit has been designed to support frontline teams to work with and for adolescents in emergencies and protracted crises. It is based on programme evidence, numerous…

Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Voices from the Sahel

This research was conducted with adolescent girls in the Sahel region where people struggle with a long, complex and violent crisis.

Beijing +25 Toolkit

A guide to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) and how girl and youth-led groups can use it for advocacy.

Periods in a Pandemic

How the current implications of COVID-19 is exacerbating challenges for people who menstruate around the world, plus recommendations on how to include menstrual hygiene management within COVID-19…

Close to Contagion

Evidence shows that the impact of COVID-19 on displaced and refugee girls and women – on their health, safety and opportunities for education and decent jobs – is making already difficult…

Asia and COVID-19

How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting girls in Asia? Hear from them in their own voices as girls and young women share some of their important needs and priorities while experiencing social…

Living up to our Commitment

Girls and women are likely to be worst affected by the secondary impacts of COVID-19. The pandemic has the potential to derail and even reverse the gains made towards gender equality and girls’…

Support for LGBTIQ+ Adolescents

An evaluation of the Swedish Postcode Lottery supported Plan International project ‘Strengthening Plan International’s Support for LGBTIQ+ Adolescents’ (June 2016 – December 2019). The…

COVID-19: Going Hungry

On 21 April 2020, the World Food Programme warned that, unless swift action is taken, some 265 million people worldwide, double the numbers from the previous year, face acute food shortages. …

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