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Children's Climate Cards Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Plan International These children’s climate cards provide a series of inspiring and interactive activities to engage children on the climate change agenda and call for climate action. 
[Synthesis Report] Climate Change and Girls' Education: Barriers, Gender Norms and Pathways to Resilience Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Plan International This research explores the relationship between climate change and girls' education: what are the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on girls' access to school and completion of their education? How do these impacts intersect with existing gender barriers to education? And how does your education help girls respond and adapt to climate change in their communities? A synthesis report and summary are also available, along with the technical report for more details on the conclusions and the research itself. 
[Technical Report] Climate Change and Girls' Education: Barriers, Gender Norms and Pathways to Resilience Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Plan International This is the technical report of the Climate Change and Girls' Education: Barriers, Gender Norms and Pathways to Resilience for further detail on the findings and research itself. 
[Executive Summary] Climate Change and Girls' Education: Barriers, Gender Norms and Pathways to Resilience Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Plan International This is the Executive Summary for the report: Climate Change and Girls’ Education: Barriers, Gender Norms and Pathways to Resilience. The full technical report and accompanying synthesis report are also available. 
Gender Inequality and Early Childhood Development: A Review of the Linkages Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Plan International This paper aims to respond to the fact that Early Childhood Development initiatives and programmes, both internal and external, often appear to give limited attention to gender inequality and discrimination. Furthermore, initiatives to promote girls’ rights and gender equality often pay little attention to early childhood, instead focusing on older girls and adolescents. 
Reimagining Climate Education and Youth Leadership: Survey Report Year of publication: 2021 Author: Lucia Rost | Jessica Cooke | Isobel Fergus Corporate author: Plan International Climate change is a social, intergenerational, gender, and racial injustice. Plan International aims to support children and youth to meaningfully and safely engage in climate policy processes and to reduce the barriers preventing them from engaging in and influencing climate policy and advocacy.With this in mind, Plan International conducted a global online survey to capture the opinions and experiences of young people on climate change education and their participation in climate policy processes. The survey was available in seven languages and was open to 15 to 24-year- olds in all 77 countries where Plan International operates. Over 1,800 adolescents and youth, between the ages of 15 to 24, from 37 countries, participated: more than half (54 per cent) were 15 to 18 years old and 72 per cent were girls. 
Digital Empowerment of Girls Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Plan International This briefing paper provides recommendations for closing the digital gender gap that will enable girls to participate in and contribute to our increasingly digital future. 
Speak Out – Be Protected!: Your Guide to Reporting All Forms of Violence Against Children Year of publication: 2016 Author: Raša Sekulović | Stephanie Delaney Corporate author: Plan International The Child-Sensitive Reporting Mechanisms toolkit “Speak Out –Be Protected!” identifies simple and user-friendly processes through which children and their peers (and families) can raise child protection concerns and report to the respective mandatory child protective agencies, services or trusted community groups/institutions.Violence can mean many different things. Physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse and neglect are the main types of violence covered in this manual. 
Engaging Girls, Boys and Youth as Active Citizens: Plan International’s Position Paper Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Plan International This paper provides Plan International’s position on the right to participate in public life, as well as analysis of: the legal and political framework; the impact of social and gender norms on participation; and specific issues in relation to political empowerment and active citizenship. This paper supports 100 Million Reasons, Plan International’s 2017-2022 Global Strategy, in which supporting girls, boys and youth as active drivers of change is a main priority. It upholds our work in relation to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals – in particular Goals 5, 10 and 16. A number of high-level recommendations are included to guide advocacy. 
Because We Matter: Addressing COVID-19 and Violence Against Girls in Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Save the Children | Plan International This thematic policy brief aims to seek and secure commitment from regional and national leaders to urgently prioritize and invest consistently in the protection of girls, who are disproportionately exposed to multitude forms of violence and their devastating consequences. It provides evidence and raises concerns of girls’ vulnerability to combined and complex risks that are further intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.This brief is primarily intended for regional policy-makers and duty-bearers responsible for regulating, planning and resourcing protection of There is no definition of what it means to be a girl. It offers a set of recommendations to guide policy and investments across the Asia Pacific region to ensure gender-responsive, effective and well-resourced measures to protect all children, and particularly girls.