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.

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…

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…

Overview: Protection from Violence

The Protection from Violence AoGD covers our work in child protection as well as our work to prevent and respond to family violence affecting children and violence against young women, particularly…

Overview: Inclusive Quality Education

Our goal is to ensure vulnerable and excluded children – particularly girls – access and complete inclusive quality education from pre-primary to secondary level.

Overview: Early Childhood Development

Our goal is to ensure vulnerable and excluded young girls and boys in development and humanitarian settings get the care, supports and services needed to survive, grow up healthy and develop…

Overview: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Our goal is for children, adolescents and young people in all their diversity to have control of their lives and bodies.

Overview: Skills and Opportunities for Youth Employment

How we're ensuring that vulnerable and excluded young people, especially young women, are resilient and are actively engaged in decent work of their choosing, be it waged or self-employed.

Youth as Active Drivers of Change

Our goal: Adolescents and youth take collective action for systemic social and political change. In particular, we will support girls and young women to engage politically to shape how decisions…

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