What we do

Plan International taps into the preserving optimism of the children we work with, especially girls, as well as our partners and supporters worldwide, to provide proven and powerful ways to positively change lives in more than 80 countries around the world.

Together, we won’t stop until we are all equal.

We center our work around seven key impact areas: Youth empowerment; Inclusive, quality education; Early childhood development; Skills and work; Emergencies; Protection from violence; and Sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Our impact

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Youth empowerment

We enable children and young people to understand and defend their rights.

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Inclusive, quality education

We promote free, equal access to quality education for all children.

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Early childhood development

We help vulnerable and excluded children, particularly girls, grow up equally valued and cared for, free from discrimination.

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Skills and work

We increase young people’s access to financial services, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship and employment skills training.

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Emergencies

We build communities’ resilience and support children’s rights to dignity and protection before, during and after disasters and conflicts.

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Plan International USA Impact Areas: Protection

Protection from violence

We work with communities, families, schools and governments to protect children from harm.

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights

We increase access to quality sexual health services and eliminate harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and early child marriage.

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The GirlEngage approach

Plan’s evidence indicates that girls are best placed to drive program content and ensure its applicability to the local context. GirlEngage shifts the focus of girls from passive beneficiaries to active participants, amplifying their voices in all stages of the project cycle, from setting goals to program evaluation. By engaging girls and young women as partners and co-designers, we co-create innovative, sustainable solutions that reflect their priorities, needs and vision.

The best way to identify the challenges girls and young women face is by asking the experts: the girls themselves.

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Your gift to Plan International USA will be used where needed most, to help create sustainable change and address the root causes of poverty and inequality. Donations can support programs, innovation, and infrastructure required to deliver our programs to girls and children worldwide, in areas such as protection, education, health, sanitation, disaster relief and economic empowerment.