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.

Progress and Obstacles to Girls’ Education in Africa

This report presents the difficulties faced by girls, their families, communities and teachers across Africa, and how their experience of education is impacted and influenced by policies, cultural…

Children’s Participation in Decision Making

This booklet is aimed at showing how to put children’s participation into practice. It is useful for everyone in roles of public leadership and service, answering questions about how and…

The State of the World’s Girls 2008: In the Shadow of…

Examining the state of girls in conflict situations around the world and what happens to them before, during and after war is over.

Strengthening Support to LGBTIQ Adolescents

Policy report on the rationale and scope for strengthening support to adolescents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or questioning.

Are Schools Safe and Equal Places for Girls and Boys in Asia?…

In 2014 Plan International and the International Centre for Research on Women undertook research in 5 countries in Asia, to assess the prevalence, nature, response and reporting of various forms…

Positive Disciplines: A Training Manual

This manual, developed by Plan International Vietnam, is aimed at training parents, teachers and care-givers on positive discipline.

Include us in Education

A qualitative research study from Plan International on barriers and enablers to education for children with disabilities in Nepal. It looks at the experiences of 21 children aged 6 to 16 years…

The State of the World’s Girls 2014: Pathways to Power

What will shift the unequal power relations that bolster gender discrimination, injustice and inequality for girls and women in every country in the world?

Hear Our Voices

Thousands of girls claim they are embarrassed and ashamed to express the everyday injustices and threats of sexual violence they face, in ‘Hear Our Voices’ - one of the largest studies of…

LGBTIQ+ bullying in Thailand’s secondary schools

Bullying targeting secondary school students who are or are perceived to be transgender or same-sex attracted: Types, prevalence, impact, motivation and preventive measures in 5 provinces of…

Gender in ECCD in 6 countries

This report summaries the results of studies undertaken by Plan International into the gender dimensions of early childhood development and of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) programmes…

Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation

This toolkit is intended for use by practitioners and children working in participatory programmes, as well as by governments, NGOs, civil society and children’s organisations seeking to assess…

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