Championing Girls’ Rights Through Action and Impact
Discover the powerful impact of our initiatives in advancing the rights and opportunities for girls worldwide. Our Annual Review and Impact Reports reflect a year of progress and the tangible outcomes we’ve achieved through dedication and partnership.
Dive into our featured project, which highlights innovative solutions to challenges faced by girls in education, health, and leadership. Each report and project underscores our commitment to creating a more just and equal world, where every girl has the chance to succeed.
Featured Projects
Embedded Storytellers Program
Our Embedded Storytellers program works with locally-based filmmakers and photographers around the world to capture stories about girls’ rights and the people who champion them – told in their own words.
Check out our most recent mini-documentaries.
Watch nowAdvocacy for Youth by Youth
Governments aren’t on track to deliver on what the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promised they’d reach by 2030, especially as they affect adolescent health and well-being. That’s why we partnered with young activists in seven countries to help them dial up the pressure and lobby for change. Together, did we make a difference?
In this special report, we’ll tell you about the project, highlight the most pressing issues adolescents face and put a spotlight on why the world is lagging in meeting the SDGs.
Read moreAnnual Report
See all that we accompolished together in our 2023 Annual report.
Impact Reports
In our reports you will learn about our global projects and the positive changes taking place in the lives of children, especially girls.
2023 impact highlights from Plan International and Plan International Canada
Plan International Canada is a member of a global organization dedicated to advancing children’s rights and equality for girls. This is the collective impact of Plan’s 132 active projects in 53 countries.
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41.6 million
children, including 22.2 million girls, were reached by Plan International’s work.
Health
30 million
children and adults reached by our sexual and reproductive health and rights work.
Humanitarian Response & Resilience
22.4 million
children and adults, including 5.2 million girls, were helped through our work with communities experiencing crises.
Protection from Violence
13.8 million
children and adults were reached through gender-sensitive child-protection programs.
Education
10.5 million
children and adults received inclusive quality education.
Economic Empowerment
3.9 million
children and adults gained skills and had opportunities for youth employment and entrepreneurship.
Education
4.3 million
girls received better access to education.
Child Sponsorship
1 million
sponsors supported 1.1 million children in 15,670 communities around the world.
9.3 million
people, including 6.2 million children (3.2 million girls), were reached by Plan International Canada’s work.
Health
7.2 million
people, including 3.6 million women and girls, received health care and information.
Education
1.1 million
children and adults, including 460,290 girls, received inclusive quality education.
Humanitarian Response & Resilience
951,490
children and adults, including 224,000 girls, were reached by Plan International Canada’s humanitarian-response work.
Protection From Violence
272,360
people, including 82,080 girls and 65,910 women, were protected from harm, such as abuse and exploitation.
Child Sponsorship
147,110
children were supported by 108,760 sponsors in Canada.
Youth Leadership
17,850
youths in Canada participated in youth- engagement initiatives.
Generous Supporters
78,350
Gifts of Hope were purchased by ethical gift givers, for a total of $5.6 million.
Kumba stars in our new mini-doc Second Acts. She is one of 900 young women in our teaching training program in Sierra Leone.
Plan International Canada’s Impact Highlights*
expenditures
46.5%
7,195,720
people were reached by 39 projects with $111.9 million invested.
354,790
children, adolescents and adults accessed improved health services.
106,770
people received sexual and reproductive health and rights education with a focus on gender equality.
6,780
lives of children under age 5 were saved after 3.3 million mosquito nets were distributed, preventing malaria.
expenditures
21%
951,490
people were reached by 60 projects with $50.5 million invested.
245,200
metric tons of food were distributed to fight hunger.
320,730
children and adults accessed life-saving/critical services and facilities in a humanitarian context.
498,200
children and adults received emergency cash, vouchers and food distribution.
expenditures
16.4%
1,059,090
people were reached by 21 projects with$39.5 million invested.
343,590
young people received improved formal and informal education training.
4,890
girls in Burkina Faso received financial support to continue their education.
460
women in Sierra Leone are working as teachers after completing our training program.
expenditures
9.4%
7,050
people were reached by eight projects with $22.6 million invested.
15,980
youth and adults participated in savings groups or other microfinance programs.
37,040
adolescents and adults were trained on financial literacy and entrepreneurship.
500
training graduates in Ghana formally registered their businesses.
expenditures
6.7%
272,360
people were reached by four projects with $16.1 million invested.
156,870
adults received training and info on how to prevent and respond to violence, including gender-based violence.
1,950
child-protection personnel were trained.
9,000
marriages were prevented for girls under the age of 15 in Ethiopia.
* Results and reach listed are for projects in fiscal year 2023 (July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023) with available data. Some projects are still in early stages and do not yet have measurable results to report or are in close-out phase. See the appendix for more impact highlights.
How you can help
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