Research & Reports
Plan's performance and effectiveness
Plan is committed to measuring the effectiveness of our work and demonstrating to our donors where Plan’s money comes from, where it goes, and how it makes a difference in people’s lives. We produce a variety of publications including reports, manuals, and research documents — the most recent of which are listed below:
| Plan Worldwide Publications Plan International USA Publications Publications by Campaign | Publications by Program |
Plan Worldwide Publications
Plan Worldwide Annual Review and Accounts 2011
Read about Plan's work and achievements in 2011.
Full Report: 3.43 mb, 72 pages
Promoting Child Rights to End Child Poverty
A guide to Plan's approach to rights-based programming.
Full Report: 1.9 mb, 79 pages
Plan Worldwide Annual Review and Accounts 2009
Read about Plan's work and achievements in 2009.
Full Report: 3.5 mb, 68 pages
Rights-Based Approach to Development
Research project between Plan Guatemala and the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
Full Report: 503 kb, 99 pages
Plan International USA Publications
Plan International USA Promising Futures Newsletter
Download Plan International USA's Promsing Futures Newsletter: Winter 2012.
Full Report: 1.72 mb, 6 pages
Plan International USA Annual Report 2012
Plan International USA Statements of Financial Position: July 1, 2011 — June 30, 2012.
Full Report: 4.74 mb, 35 pages
Programs in Action: Highlights from 2011
Contains highlights and stories from the Plan world in 2011.
Full Report: 1.42 mb, 20 pages
Plan: Community-Based Development
How your contributions to Plan are put into action.
Full Report: 3.66 mb, 16 pages
Plan Magazine: Fall 2011
In this issue: Ground-Breaking Research on Plan's Program Approach, and more.
Full Report: 5.35 mb, 20 pages
Plan International USA Brochure
Download Plan International USA's organizational brochure.
Full Report: 314 kb, 2 pages
Because I am a Girl
Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2011
So, what about boys? Examines how men and boys play an essential role in creating true gender equality.
Full Report: 10 mb, 207 pages
- Executive Summary: 350 kb, 11 pages
- Youth Summary: 428 kb, 7 pages
Listening to African Voices
Examines female genital mutilation/cutting among African immigrants in Germany.
Full Report: 2.09 mb, 116 pages
Because They Are Girls
Mapping Plan's experience in improving the lives of girls.
Full Report: 846 kb, 27 pages
Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2010
Digital and Urban Frontiers: Girls in a Changing Landscape
Full Report: 7.03 mb, 199 pages
- Executive summary: 488 kb, 6 pages
- Youth summary: 724 kb, 8 pages
- French Version: 7.07mb, 101 pages
Real Choices, Real Lives 2010
This study was set up in 2007 to follow 142 girls from birth until 2015.
Full Report: 2.9 mb, 16 pages
The State of the Girl Child in India 2010
Examines the lives of adolescent girls in the urban and digital environment.
Full Report: 1.78 mb, 72 pages
Paying the Price: The Economic Cost of Failing to Educate Girls
Learn how failure to educate girls costs developing countries almost $100 billion each year.
Full Report: 1.3 mb, 12 pages
Behind the Screen
An inside look at gender inequality in Asia.
Full Report: 1.72 mb, 88 pages
Capacity Statement: Gender Based Programming
Learn Without Fear
Learn Without Fear: Two Year Campaign Progress Report
Two year report on Plan's global campaign to end violence against children in schools.
Full Report: 2.4 mb, 38 pages
Prevention Pays: Economic Benefits of Ending Violence in Schools
Reveals the enormous economic and social cost of violence in schools across the world.
Full Report: 1.3 mb, 11 pages
Too often in silence: A report on school-based violence in West and Central Africa
A joint report by Plan, ActionAid, Save the Children Sweden and UNICEF.
Full Report: 1.3 mb, 68 pages
Universal Birth Registration
Count Every Child
Documents Plan’s ground-breaking work through the Universal Birth Registration campaign.
Full Report: 1.5 mb, 100 pages
Count Every Child 2011 Summary
A summary of the report Count Every Child: The Right to Birth Registration.
Summary Report: 902 kb, 12 pages
Mother to Child
A study about how discrimination prevents women registering the birth of their child.
Full Report: 2.0 mb, 16 pages
Economic Security
Capacity Statement: Microfinance Capacity Statement: Youth Enterprise and Vocational Training
Education
Plan's Education Strategy 2010-2013
This strategy focuses on Plan's 3 education priorities: access, quality and governance.
Full Report: 2.1 mb, 16 pages
Capacity Statement: Early Childhood Care and Development Capacity Statement: Education in Emergencies Capacity Statement: Primary Education
Emergencies
Plan's Disaster Risk Management Strategy 2009-2013
Strategy to protect children from threats of conflicts and natural and human-made disasters.
Full Report: 1.9 mb, 16 pages
Haiti Earthquake: 1 Year Later
This report highlights Plan's activities in the 12 months since the January 2010earthquake.
Full Report: 5.26 mb, 24 pages Capacity Statement: Disaster Risk Management
Health
Sexuality Education in Asia: Are We Delivering?
An assessment on strategies in place regarding sexuality education in 13 Asian countries.
Full Report: 2.0 mb, 87 pages
Capacity Statement: HIV and AIDS Programming Capacity Statement: Control of Infectious Diseases Capacity Statement: Food Aid Capacity Statement: Health and Nutrition of Children Under Age Five Capacity Statement: Reproductive Health Capacity Statement: School Based Health and Nutrition
Protection
Silent Suffering
The psychosocial impact of war, HIV and other high-risk situations on children in Africa.
Full Report: 4.8 mb, 64 pages
Hard Work, Long Hours and Little Pay
Research with children working on tobacco farms in Malawi.
Full Report: 770 kb, 81 pages
Still on the Street - Still Short of Rights
Analysis of policy and programs related to street involved children.
Full Report: 1.3 mb, 44 pages Capacity Statement: Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Water and Sanitation
Global Expenditure Review: Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation
A global review of Plan’s water supply and sanitation expenditures 2005-2007.
Full Report: 2.0 mb, 87 pages Capacity Statement: Water and Sanitation
