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
Filmmaker Aimalohi Ojeamiren films the young Salma for their mini-documentary. Filmmaker Aimalohi Ojeamiren films the young Salma for their mini-documentary.

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. 

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Advocacy for Youth by Youth
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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.

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Annual Report

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See all that we accompolished together in our 2023 Annual report.

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Impact Reports

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In our reports you will learn about our global projects and the positive changes taking place in the lives of children, especially girls.

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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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Plan International GLOBAL

41.6 million

children, including 22.2 million girls, were reached by Plan International’s work.

Plan International GLOBAL
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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.


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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.


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Plan International CANADA

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.


Plan International CANADA

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.


Second act

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*

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Programs
expenditures
Health 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.

humanitarian icon Humanitarian Response & Resilience
Programs
expenditures
Humanitarian 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.

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Programs
expenditures
Humanitarian 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.

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Programs
expenditures
youth 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.

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Programs
expenditures
youth 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.

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