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.

Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship

This annotated bibliography seeks to update the knowledge base on youth employment and entrepreneurship through compiling and reviewing evidence and recent literature on this important topic.…

Digital Empowerment of Girls

Our new report gives recommendations on opening up digital career paths to girls and young women. It's vital girls participate in and contribute to our shared digital future if we are to achieve…

Policy Position: The Right to Inclusive, Quality Education

Education should be available and accessible to all girls and boys.

Planning for Inclusion

This report summarises findings from a review of available budget and planning documents from 12 low-income countries. The review assesses the extent to which education systems plan to address…

Girls’ rights are human rights

In-depth study into the status of girls in international law, shedding light on gaps and trends related to girls’ rights prompting the question: does the international human rights framework…

Real Choices, Real Lives: Girls’ Burden of Unpaid Care (2017)…

This report forms part of Plan International’s ongoing research, Real Choices, Real Lives, and explores the gendered social rules and structures in girls’ home lives, relationships, and…

Let Me Decide and Thrive

Girls with disabilities are kept in the dark about their sexual and reproductive health and often don’t know how to protect themselves against abuse, pregnancy and disease. This report…

Disability Awareness Toolkit

This toolkit aims to equip field staff and volunteers with a resource that can assist in introducing disability to the community and challenging negative perceptions.

Menstrual Hygiene Management in Emergencies Toolkit

The Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in Emergencies toolkit aims to provide streamlined guidance to support organisations and agencies seeking to rapidly integrate MHM into existing programming…

Innovations in Birth Registration

Innovations in Birth Registration provides guidelines and activities to help define solutions to the most challenging birth registration contexts.

State of the World’s Girls 2017: Unlock the Power of Girls…

Why gender equality is THE social and political issue of our time.

Disaster Risk Management Framework

This document will enable our country and national strategies to be complementary and aligned on disaster risk management.

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