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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 56,865,516 | 70,328,366 | 75,624,370 | 64,765,143 | 63,049,576 | 330,632,971 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | 0 | |||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | 0 | |||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 56,865,516 | 70,328,366 | 75,624,370 | 64,765,143 | 63,049,576 | 330,632,971 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 6,354,517 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 324,278,454 | |||||
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 56,865,516 | 70,328,366 | 75,624,370 | 64,765,143 | 63,049,576 | 330,632,971 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 518,651 | 336,930 | 407,217 | 585,641 | 523,820 | 2,372,259 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 0 | |||||
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 333,005,230 | |||||
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | 0 | |||||
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 1-1/2% of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by .035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | ||
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Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | ||
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | ||
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required) | ||
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | ||
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | ||
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Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2019 from Section C, line 6 | ||
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | ||
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2019 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2019 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2019 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2019 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2019: | ||||
| a From 2014....... | ||||
| b From 2015....... | ||||
| c From 2016....... | ||||
| d From 2017....... | ||||
| e From 2018....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2019 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
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| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2019 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from 4. | ||||
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Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2019, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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Remaining underdistributions for 2019. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2020. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2015..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2016..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2017..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2018..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2019..... | ||||
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| Other | **** PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA,INC. PURPOSE STATEMENT **** |
| Other | Plan strives for a just world that advances children's rights and equality for girls. We engage people and partners to:(1) Empower children, young people and communities to make vital changes that tackle the root causes of discrimination against girls, exclusion and vulnerability; (2) Drive change in practice and policy at local, national and global levels through reach, experience and knowledge of the realities children face; (3) Work with children and communities to prepare for and respond to crises and to overcome adversity; (4) Support the safe and successful progression of children from birth to adulthood. |
| Pt VI, Line 11b | The Form 990 is provided electronically to each member of the Plan International USA Audit Committee. The Audit Committee then meets with Plan International USA's CEO and CFO to review the Form 990 in detail. Once the 990 has been approved by the Audit Committee, it is sent electronically to the full Board of Directors for review and comment. Once the comment period is over, either the Board approves or delegates the authority to the Executive Committee of the Board to approve the Form 990. Once approved it is filed with the IRS and posted to the Organization's website for public disclosure. |
| Pt VI, Line 12c | On an annual basis, the officers, directors and all employees receive a copy of Plan International USA's Conflict of Interest policy and review the disclosure questionnaire. Each of them signs that questionnaire where they must disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest. All questionnaires with any actual or potential conflicts are then reviewed by the Director of Ethics and Compliance and either General Counsel, Senior Director of Human Resources, the Audit Committee or the Executive Committee depending on the position of the person whose questionnaire has a disclosure. Appropriate action is taken as needed. During the year if potential conflicts arise, they must be disclosed promptly and in writing to the appropriate person (as noted above). |
| Pt VI, Line 12c | If there are any potential conflicts of interest relating |
| Pt VI, Line 12c | to a particular vote that the Board is taking, the |
| Pt VI, Line 12c | Board member(s) must declare the potential conflict and |
| Pt VI, Line 12c | abstain from voting. This is then recorded in the minutes of the Board meeting. |
| Pt VI, Line 15a | Every year (typically in late summer), the Executive Committee of the Board (EXCO)leads the annual CEO performance review process. The EXCO requests and reviews a CEO evaluation feedback form that is received from each Board Member and can also include feedback from members of the Executive Team. |
| Pt VI, Line 15a | Based on that feedback, the EXCO prepares the performance |
| Pt VI, Line 15a | review for Board approval. The discussion with the CEO is conducted by the EXCO. |
| Pt VI, Line 15a | Based on the CEO's performance against objectives, comparisons to external market factors for CEO's in similar locations and of similar sized organizations and availability of funds based on the budget and overall organizational performance, an increase (if applicable based on the aforementioned factors) is recommended by the EXCO and brought to the Board for approval; typically around the time of the September Board meeting. The EXCO retains documentation with respect to the process, deliberations, external data, and the decisions made regarding CEO compensation. The process includes a regular review of the benchmarks with periodic consultation with a compensation specialist to ensure that the CEO salary and those of other positions in the organization are within the market range of comparable positions at similar organizations in similar markets. |
| Pt VI, Line 15b | For current staff, including officers and key employees, but with the exception of the CEO (as described in reference above to Pt VI, line 15a), the annual performance reviews are conducted in the summer/fall following each fiscal year end. |
| Pt VI, Line 15b | At that time, managers determine compensation increases for staff based on merit and the availability of funds based on the budget and corresponding organizational performance. |
| Pt VI, Line 15b | As needed, positions at Plan International USA are market |
| Pt VI, Line 15b | priced with an outside consultant to determine if the pay ranges for each job are in line with those in other like positions in similar geographic locations. When changes to the job descriptions are made, Human Resources staff have a process for determining the grade level and salary. For instances where the compensation for the position is in question, Human Resources consults with an external compensation specialist. |
| Pt VI, Line 15b | Documentation is kept regarding each employee's salary. Officers and key employees are reviewed by the CEO and any salary changes for officers and key employees are approved by the CEO. |
| Pt VI, Line 19 | Plan International USA's audited financial statements are made available publicly on our website at: www.planusa.org and also on other websites such as Guidestar. In addition, financial information as well as governing documents and our Conflict of Interest Policy are available upon request. |
| Pt XI | Other Changes in Net Assets (Part XI, Line 9) |
| Pt XI | Expense from non-operating lease $ (870,196) |
| Pt XI | Change in value of split-interest agreements $(70,619) |
| Pt XI | Change in value of perpetual trusts $ (4,390) |
| Pt XI | Difference in tax treatment of leases $(68,495) |
| Pt XI | ----------- |
| Pt XI | Other Changes in Net Assets(non-operating) $(1,013,700) |
| Other | PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA, INC. |
| Other | PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS |
| Other | Plan International USA, Inc. (Plan) is the U.S. member organization of Plan International Inc. (PII), along with 20 other member offices around the world. Plan implements the vast majority of its international activities through PII, which is also a non-profit organization registered in the U.S. |
| Other | Plan has been working for more than 80 years to break the cycle of poverty. Today, we support children, youth, families and communities in more than 50 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas to strengthen the health, knowledge and resilience of millions of children, which results in lasting change for families, communities and nations. |
| Other | Powered by supporters, we partner with adolescent girls and children around the world to overcome oppression and gender inequality, providing the support and resources that are unique to their needs and the needs of their communities, ensuring they achieve their full potential with dignity, opportunity and safety. Plan works with children, particularly girls - who are often the most marginalized - to make sure they receive the education and protection to which they have a right, and that they are not excluded from services or decision-making. We work closely with communities, local and national governments and civil society organizations. We are independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations. |
| Other | A. PROGRAM AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT |
| Other | Program and Technical Support Funding of $41,098,172 (for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020) represents funds received by Plan from individual donors, corporations, foundations, bi-lateral and multi-lateral entities, $7,388,447 of which was used on programmatic activities conducted directly by Plan, and $33,709,725 of which 98% was transferred to PII and combined with the funding received from the 20-member offices around the world. The combined funds are then used to support programs that benefitted more than 40 million children in over 50 developing countries. Plan's programs are focused on the following five core areas: education, health, disaster and conflict, protection, and youth and economic empowerment. Plan's work is intersectional and each of these core areas have overlapping elements with a goal of holistic achievements. An emphasis on gender is central to all Plan programming. |
| Other | PROGRAM APPROACH |
| Other | GirlEngage is a new approach to development, the first and only approach letting girls become drivers of the change they want and need in their lives. It is a strategy focused on adolescent girls ages 10-18 that allows girls themselves to drive our programs - from designing projects, to leading activities, to measuring success. This approach understands that girls don't live their lives according to program areas; their education may depend on their health, their family or the culture in which they live. Girls know the changes they need in their lives, and Plan is listening and working with them to make those changes happen. |
| Other | Plan strives to incorporate the GirlEngage approach into all of our work. We aim to be girl-centered, girl-driven and girl-led. |
| Other | 1. EDUCATION |
| Other | Plan's goal: Children and youth will realize their right to quality education. |
| Other | Plan offers holistic solutions that help the most vulnerable girls and boys access quality educational opportunities, from the earliest years through secondary school. We work directly with communities to build early childhood centers, ensuring that all children get a head start on their education. We support Ministries of Education to design appropriate teaching and learning materials to ensure all children, regardless of language ability or ethnicity, learn foundational literacy. At primary school, Plan helps families and caregivers effectively support their children's learning at home to improve early grade reading outcomes. Finally, Plan is working with all children, but especially girls, to successfully navigate the transition from primary to secondary school. Plan collaborates across sectors to ensure adolescent girls thrive in school by preventing early marriage, increasing school safety, improving teacher quality and providing additional learning support both in home and at school. |
| Other | In FY20, Plan's expenditures in education totaled approximately $5,057,899 with $4,425,798 transferred to PII for our overseas programs. Examples of Plan's FY20 projects in this area include: The Graduation Project, Lecture Pour Tous and Early Grade Reading Program. |
| Other | The Graduation Project: |
| Other | The Graduation Project is a three-year project funded through Plan's We Are the Girls campaign, which addresses the barriers that keep girls in Zimbabwe from graduating from secondary school and meaningfully contributing to the development of their communities. With an overall budget of $3.3 million, the project seeks to increase access to quality lower secondary education for girls and promote the transition to tertiary education. To achieve this goal, Plan supports high school girls to: 1) have the confidence, tools and self-esteem to succeed and participate in their education; 2) be safe and protected both in school and in the dormitory; and 3) feel supported in and out of school. In the first year of implementation, Plan worked with two priority high schools in the Mwenezi district, located in Southern Zimbabwe, reaching approximately 160 girls and 500 additional students. A major contribution during the first year was designing dormitories with the girls who will be using them once construction is complete. The program tests the GirlEngage model in which girls are driving the program at each step in the process and using the co-designed, co-led process to increase adolescent girls' success in secondary school. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this includes soliciting baseline data through mobile surveys, which will be used to design future program interventions. |
| Other | Lecture Pour Tous: |
| Other | Lecture Pour Tous (All Children Reading) is a five-year early grade reading program funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Chemonics in support of the Ministry-led National Reading Program in Senegal. The program aims to improve reading levels for students in grades 1 through 3. As a lead subcontractor, Plan's $4.43 million initiative is implementing a comprehensive parent and community engagement program in six regions of Senegal that uses innovative social behavior change communication (SBCC) strategies to increase parent demand for quality reading instruction in schools. Targeted training programs and awareness-raising through local radio and school management committees provides parents with the skills to effectively support their children at home as they learn to read. |
| Other | Working through partnerships with local community-based organizations, schools and government partners, Plan supports communities as key drivers of change. Together, these key stakeholders implement interactive, child-centered activities, such as summer reading camps and parent learning circles, designed to complement the program's broader teacher training and curriculum development components. This year, Plan mobilized more than 73,000 community members and parents in 766 schools in the effort to improve early grade reading outcomes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Plan shifted to virtual support through 370 WhatsApp forums that brought together 18,500 parent and caregivers (over half of whom were women) to learn how best to support children's learning during school closures. |
| Other | Early Grade Reading Program: |
| Other | The Early Grade Reading Program (EGRP) in Nepal is a USAID-funded, multi-stakeholder, country-wide education program that is working to directly assist the Government of Nepal, schools, community actors and parents in supporting the education of their children. This takes place through community groups, new tools for engagement and increased support to traditional forms of educational practice. The primary goals of the program are directly aimed at children themselves, as well as the supportive systems that are responsible for their education. The program aims to improve children's reading in grades one through three and strengthen the Government of Nepal's capacity to deliver these services across 16 districts of the country. |
| Other | Plan, as a partner to RTI, carried out a $2.7 million activity plan that strategically engaged, educated and empowered parents around the role they can and should play in their children's education. Understanding the vital importance of creating sustainable interventions, Plan supported strategic partnerships between parents and schools. Plan assisted parents in the creation of supplementary reading materials; hosted after-school reading clubs; improved the home learning environment by creating reading spaces and enhancing the print-rich nature of their houses; increased supportive dialogue among parents through peer-to-peer training; helped guide schools in planning for the allocations under their School Improvement Plans; and ensured further participation of parents and communities in the direction and management of schools. Over the life of the project, Plan's leadership and advocacy workshops, peer education trainings and other school-based initiatives have reached 1,468,569 people (60% women), including district officials, mayors, local NGO staff, school directors, school management committees, teachers and parents. |
| Other | 2. HEALTH |
| Other | Plan's goal: Engaging young people, their peers, families, households and communities so that they have the health knowledge, skills and capacity to thrive. This includes helping adolescents and young people to realize their right to sexual and reproductive health, including HIV prevention, care and treatment. |
| Other | Plan supports a range of programs that reduce morbidity and mortality by strengthening individual families, households and communities. These interventions include initiatives to prevent and combat specific avoidable childhood illnesses, as well as efforts to strengthen community health systems and positively impact health-seeking behavior. |
| Other | Our integrated approach to health intersects with work to promote good nutrition, early child development and early education, while providing support for parents and caregivers. We work with our partners to help mothers, children and young people access quality primary health care and social services. We also support quality, age-appropriate sexuality and reproductive health education and services for adolescents and young people. We challenge the beliefs and attitudes that maintain inequality between genders. We also advocate for more effective policies and actions that respect and protect the rights of children, adolescents and young people who are living with HIV. These include the right to be protected from HIV and, for those affected, to receive care and support. This work includes building the capacity of household members caring for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. |
| Other | In FY20, Plan's expenditures for health totaled approximately $11,298,505, of which $9,248,230 was transferred to PII. Examples of Plan's FY20 projects in this area include: Integrated Health and Education Services for Adolescents in El Salvador, Health Systems Strengthening and Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project. |
| Other | Integrated Health and Education Services for Adolescents in El Salvador: |
| Other | The purpose of the Integrated Health and Education Services for Adolescents in El Salvador(IHES) project is to improve the health and well-being of adolescents and young people in El Salvador by strengthening their capacity and abilities to recognize and exercise their sexual and reproductive rights as well as enable comprehensive youth-friendly health service delivery. Funded by Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, this $2.5 million, three-year (Jan 2019 - Dec 2021) project works in La Libertad, Chalatenango and Cabanas Departments to strengthen and expand the Ministry of Health (MOH) youth-friendly services (YFS); supports the Ministry of Education to implement comprehensive sexuality education (CSE); and facilitates community approaches that improve the acceptance, demand for and use of adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) services. |
| Other | With the advent of the COVID-19 crisis, IHES moved quickly to address the primary and secondary impacts of pandemic in the project, factoring in gender considerations and the need for continued youth engagement. Key actions included a community assessment, a humanitarian response for selected households of adolescents in project communities, personal protective equipment support to health facilities and creating new modalities for implementing activities, such as self-study learning resources and online platforms for the school-based CSE component, as well as for training. |
| Other | Despite the pandemic, the project made progress in FY20. Highlights included: procurement and distribution of equipment, YFS supplies and contraceptive commodities for 12 community family health units; development of architectural drawings for facility renovations; development of educational materials for use at the health units and at six maternity waiting homes; and continued health care provider training in the national YFS curriculum specific to contraceptive methods and respectful maternity care. IHES supported the development of MOH-led, health sector CSE strategies and the virtualization of course content; contributed to updating the MOH's national YFS training curriculum; and graduated the first of two classes of 13 MOH specialists from an online certificate course with the University of Rioja in AYSRH services. |
| Other | At the community level, IHES FY20 highlights include completion of CSE training for teachers for a mid-project total of 223 trained teachers and follow-up school visits to support them. At the close of FY20, 482 adolescent girls and boys were receiving school-based CSE. Community-based "Schools of Sexual and Reproductive Rights" engaged 460 young people, with training initiated for an additional 570. Peer leaders reached 1,189 young people through replica sessions. |
| Other | Health Systems Strengthening: |
| Other | The USAID-funded Health Systems Strengthening project (HSS+) aims to improve the performance of the health system in Senegal by alleviating barriers to quality health services. The project is implemented by Abt Associates and includes World Vision and Plan as community engagement sub-recipients. The project started in 2016 and will last for five years. Plan's budget over this time frame is $2 million. HSS+ involves strengthening local-level governance geared towards reducing maternal morbidity and mortality, and contributes to the USAID/Senegal Health Program (2016-2021) goal to improve the health status of the Senegalese population. |
| Other | Plan focuses on the key expected result of strengthening community involvement in the management of health systems. This includes: 1) increased awareness and community involvement in activities to promote health and enhance the continuity of health care; 2) increased use of community funding mechanisms; and 3) strengthened capacity of the structures of local government to improve health care in response to community needs. In addition, Plan supports implementation at the department, commune and community levels, and the development of community-based health insurance plans. Plan is geographically focused on metropolitan Dakar, Kaolack (Nioro du Rip), Louga and Thies. |
| Other | Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project: |
| Other | The Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project (Z-CHPP) is a six-year USAID-funded project designed to accelerate progress towards Zambia's goal of reducing new HIV infections by increasing adoption of high-impact HIV services and protective behaviors with a key focus on people living with HIV, discordant couples, young women and other high-risk groups, using evidence-based and locally owned solutions. The project is led by PACT with Plan International as key implementing partner. Plan's FY20 budget totaled $649,825. |
| Other | The project is working in 14 districts from five provinces of Zambia. Plan is the lead on social behavior change communications and gender for the project, expanding community-based behavioral interventions by engaging with community leaders. Plan plays a leading role in addressing gender norms, while strengthening community action by promoting positive male role models and raising awareness of young women's vulnerability to HIV and sexual gender-based violence (SGBV). |
| Other | In FY20 the Plan/Z-CHPP team led the facilitation of live interactive radio programming and radio spots on 11 community radio stations. Through community engagement, a total of 4,895 sessions of community dialogues were held on SGBV, gender, cultural norms and HIV prevention. The unit supported the production of information, education and communication materials for COVID-19 and Start Awareness Support Action trainings. In addition, technical support was provided to the Ministry of Health and National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council to review and evaluate HIV and COVID-19 communications materials and activities on social and behavior change. |
| Other | 3. DISASTER & CONFLICT |
| Other | Plan's goal: Children and youth grow up in resilient communities and realize their rights in safety and with dignity before, during and after disasters and conflicts. |
| Other | In times of disaster, children are particularly vulnerable. Separation from families and friends causes uncertainty, anxiety and shock, with a significant impact on children's emotional well-being. Our initial disaster response work focuses on children's urgent needs, such as shelter, food and water. We also prioritize child protection and education to help re-establish a sense of security and normalcy. An important part of our response involves developing child-friendly spaces that help protect children from harm and exploitation, and aid emotional healing. In addition to emergency response work, Plan works with communities to help them prepare for and reduce the risk of emergency events. Across the globe, Plan also works extensively with forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). |
| Other | Our goal is to support children and youth, their communities and their societies to develop resilience, enabling them to better absorb external shocks and continue forward with their personal and community development. Toward that end, we also seek to address the social inequities and governance challenges that marginalize segments of the population and prevent them from developing resilience. |
| Other | Plan's expenditures on disasters in FY20 totaled approximately $9,526,346; $7,014,151 was transferred to PII. Examples of Plan's FY20 projects in this area include: Marawi Response Project; Central African Republic Tracing and Reunification III; and Provision of Integrated Child Protection, Education and Youth Empowerment Services to South Sudanese Refugees in Gambella. |
| Other | Marawi Response Project: |
| Other | This three and a half year, $25 million USAID-funded project is strengthening the self-reliance of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host community members affected by the 2017 Marawi siege in the Philippines. In partnership with two local organizations, the Marawi Response Project (MRP) is working on the inter-related areas of improved economic conditions and strengthened social cohesion of IDPs and host community members. MRP provides direct assistance to businesspersons and communities in the form of in-kind grants to enable them to re-start economic activities and training in technical and life skills that will make both young people and adult IDPs and host community members ready for employment. MRP supplements this with activities that increase access to local and regional markets. In parallel, the project works with locally-formed community solidarity groups to identify community priorities and solutions to receive project funding, forging closer bonds between IDPs and host community members in the process. |
| Other | During FY20, MRP delivered over 320 in-kind grants ranging from business recovery (grocery, textiles, hardware) to community improvement (installation of solar streetlights, multi-purpose pavements, rehabilitation of community facilities) and community engagement (clean-up drives, cultural festivals). MRP also quickly responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a three-pronged approach of risk prevention communication activities, provision of essential commodities such as PPE and disinfectant to frontline workers and technical advice and training to health workers in critical areas such as specimen collection, packaging and transport. MRP is scheduled to run through March 28, 2022. |
| Other | Central African Republic Tracing and Reunification III: |
| Other | Building on two successful previous iterations, this 15-month, $1,935,000 USAID-funded project began in September 2018 and ran through January 2020. It supported the identification, documentation, interim care, tracing, reunification and reintegration of unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), including Children Formerly Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (former CAAFAG), in the Prefectures of Nana-Gribizi and Upper Kotto (Bria). In addition, the project addressed serious malnutrition among children in its implementation areas. Community volunteers were trained in carrying out screening, referral of malnutrition cases for treatment and cooking demonstration activities in the target communities and sites of the displaced. |
| Other | During FY20, the project reached approximately 2,686 beneficiaries, including 1,147 IDPs. Through thrice-weekly visits to communities and IDP sites, the project's mobile clinic reached vulnerable children with sport and recreational activities, as well as individual counseling and psychosocial support activities. During FY20, the project engaged 190 adolescents in vocational training ranging from tailoring to motorcycle repair to food preparation and catering. Upon completion of their training, the project provided each participant with job tool kits and supplies. The project provided life-saving assistance to vulnerable young people, helping break the cycle of violence in the Central African Republic. In order to support continued work in tracing and reunification of cases, Plan trained community child protection networks in project areas and provided training on this process to these entities and local government partners. |
| Other | Provision of Integrated Child Protection, Education and Youth Empowerment Services to South Sudanese Refugees in Gambella: |
| Other | Through this State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration-funded, 12-month, $1.5 million project, Plan provided comprehensive child protection and education support for refugee girls, boys, adolescents and youth in Kule, Pugnido II and Nguenyyiel refugee camps. The funding from PRM supported the construction of one child-friendly space, one youth-friendly space, one early childhood care and development center (ECCD), and one block of schoolrooms. Through these new facilities, as well as 14 existing ECCD centers, Plan reached more than 16,900 children with education, development and psychosocial support services. Complementing these activities, 204 camp teachers received initial or refresher training. In addition, through Plan's child protection in emergencies expertise, the project was able to reunite 334 unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) with their families. |
| Other | In the final months of the project, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Gambella led to specific programmatic adaptations to both continue implementing safely and reduce the risks of transmission. The adaptations approved included awareness raising about COVID-19 and hygiene behaviors to mitigate the risk of transmission, as well as the development of a distance learning program that utilizes recorded lessons and distribution of solar-powered radios to households with school children. |
| Other | 4. PROTECTION |
| Other | Plan's goal: Ensuring children's safety and wellbeing so they can grow to their full potential. |
| Other | Plan works to ensure that all children are protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence, and that children who do experience violence have access to child-friendly services. Plan recognizes that protection needs and challenges may vary according to a child's gender, age and maturity and appropriately tailors programming to address such differences. We provide services designed to prevent abuse, neglect and exploitation of children and to help survivors recover. We campaign for and promote adequate legal protection to strengthen child protection systems and work alongside families and communities to strengthen protective practices and influence harmful social norms that drive violence against children. In addition, we raise public awareness of, and respect for, the right of all children to protection, and we help young people access the skills and knowledge that will enable them to protect themselves. |
| Other | Expenditures from Plan in this area totaled approximately $4,772,256 for FY20, $3,824,105 of which was transferred to PII. Examples of Plan's FY20 work in this area includes two community-level child protection research and engagement projects, as well as the Preventing, Tracking, Education and Transformation project. |
| Other | Improving the Protective Environment for Children, Young People and their Families Affected by Conflict and Disaster through Strengthened Community-based Child Protection Approaches: |
| Other | Plan implemented a 32-month $626,000 USAID-funded project to develop effective, evidence-supported guidance and tools to strengthen the effectiveness of community-level child protection (CCP) programming that are easily used, applied and contextualized across various humanitarian contexts. Plan proposed an approach to strengthen practitioners' understanding of existing CCP structures and their capacity to protect children, rather than prescriptive step-by-step models. On behalf of the CCP Task Force under the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Plan delivered A Reflective Field Guide: Community-level Approaches to Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and an accompanying capacity-building package of face-to-face and online learning. These tools promote sustainable CCP approaches throughout and beyond the humanitarian crisis, linking development and recovery actions. |
| Other | Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Funding Framework for Improved Case Management and Prevention Practices: |
| Other | Plan is implementing a 24-month, $1,056,247 USAID-funded project to improve knowledge and inform practices for child protection in humanitarian actions (CPHA) worldwide. This project seeks to do this through two components. The first seeks to provide a better understanding of the role community volunteers, para-social workers and traditional mechanisms play in the delivery of formalized case management services and to develop effective, evidence-supported guidance and tools that support best practices among community child protection actors. The second component seeks to develop a comprehensive prevention framework to address the root causes of violence (including abuse, neglect and exploitation) against children before it occurs. |
| Other | The two components of this project acknowledge the vital role that community members play in protecting children in emergencies by preventing harm and serving as first responders to their acute needs when violence has occurred. This project will strengthen the CPHA community's collective knowledge in these areas, provide key resources to inform interventions and improve the capacity of practitioners to design and deliver effective community case management and prevention approaches. |
| Other | Prevention, Tracking, Education and Transformation: |
| Other | The Prevention, Tracking, Education and Transformation (PROTECT) project is a $5 million, five-year initiative across Nepal, Bangladesh and India to strengthen prevention mechanisms against child trafficking, improve repatriation processes and support survivors of trafficking to reintegrate safely into their families and communities. PROTECT is working with parents, village protection committees, border agents, governments and children themselves to create awareness and knowledge of trafficking risks, increase economic security for at-risk families and expedite safe repatriation through strengthening cross-border systems. Through PROTECT, all stakeholders will be equipped to act through curricula that address harmful social norms and build job skills to increase economic security. These curricula are tailored to each specific country context and include Choose Your Future, Sticks and Stones, village-level child protection training, village savings and loan programming, and social behavior change campaigns. |
| Other | In combination with building the capacity of key actors, PROTECT is also working to equip governments and non-state actors through technology. The Repatriation Information Management System (RIMS) is a platform designed to reduce the time it takes to repatriate a survivor of trafficking back to their country of origin and improve reintegration services at home. The system, implemented by government approved civil society organizations, ensures key information can be transferred to receiving agencies and the proper procedures, documentation and approvals are implemented and digitized for safer and more expedited repatriation. |
| Other | With the protection of children being the responsibility of all actors - from the child, family and community, to wider protection systems - Plan's program is working with gatekeepers to utilize approaches that strengthen the protective environment around children, prevent trafficking and safely reintegrate survivors. |
| Other | 5. YOUTH AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT |
| Other | Plan's goal: Young adolescents and youth will live in communities that value their participation and provide opportunities for their leadership and economic empowerment. |
| Other | Plan currently works with youth in more than 70 countries around the world. Through Plan's community-based, gender-sensitive approach, our programs engage marginalized youth to build their productive assets and prepare them with appropriate skills to manage their transition to work and adulthood. Our holistic programming targets young adolescents (10-14), adolescents (15-19) and youth (20-29). |
| Other | Plan expended approximately $10,443,166 on youth and economic empowerment in FY20, $8,482,033 of which was transferred to PII. Examples of Plan's FY20 projects in this area include Fostering Accountability in Recruitment for Fishery Workers, Hawassa Workers Wellness Alliance and Connection to Success. |
| Other | Fostering Accountability in Recruitment for Fishery Workers: |
| Other | Fostering Accountability in Recruitment for Fishery Workers (FAIR Fish) is a U.S. Department of Labor-funded program through the Bureau of International Labor Affairs. The project award is for $4 million from 2018-2022 and is implemented in Thailand. |
| Other | Getting a job is fundamental to youth economic empowerment. Equally important is making sure that labor rights are respected once young people are employed. Plan's FAIR Fish project focuses on the reduction of forced labor and human trafficking of women and men in Thailand's seafood processing sector. This project targets labor exploitation that happens during the recruitment of migrant workers by developing a responsible recruitment model that is both affordable and effective for implementation by small and medium-sized seafood processing businesses. A recruitment model tailored for small companies is critical, as most of the companies in the targeted sector employ fewer than 150 people, and 90% of Thai seafood companies are small and medium-sized companies. |
| Other | The model will be tested with two pilot company partners and four third-party recruiters. Lessons learned will be shared and promoted with other small- and medium-sized enterprises. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns and subsequent border closures, the project has moved to online training and awareness-raising platforms to educate employers, recruiters and workers about labor rights. |
| Other | Hawassa Workers Wellness Alliance: |
| Other | This $2.25 million-dollar project is funded by USAID and the Phillips Van Heusen Corporation (PVH) from 2019-2021 in Ethiopia. |
| Other | Large industrial parks employing tens of thousands of workers are a completely new phenomenon for Ethiopia, the host communities and the workers themselves. To help all stakeholders benefit from industrial parks, the Hawassa Workers Wellness Alliance was created as a public-private partnership to provide a platform for worker, community, government and private sector engagement. The Alliance focuses on outside-the-park initiatives aimed at fostering stable, resilient and prosperous communities. The Alliance will introduce a set of interventions with the goals of supporting the smoother arrival and integration of workers into Hawassa Industrial Park and increasing the ability of host communities to economically benefit from the growing population and expanding industrial base. The aim is to increase the ability of local businesses to respond to and financially benefit from the increasing population; reduce worker attrition at the park through the establishment of an assimilation plan and community-driven support structures; and build a holistic, flexible and sustainable program that responds to the changing and often conflicting interests of workers, the community, the Government of Ethiopia and the Hawassa Industrial Park companies. Together, the Alliance seeks solutions to improve the community's services and ultimately reduce new worker turnover at the park. |
| Other | Connection to Success: |
| Other | Connection to Success is a $3 million project in Guatemala funded by individual donors. The project will run from 2019-2022. To address the lack of economic opportunities for youth in key regions of Guatemala and the challenges that young people from the rural areas of Jalapa, El Quiche and Alta Verapaz departments are facing to enter the workforce and generate income, Plan is implementing Connection to Success with the goal of increasing the number of young people, especially young women, with opportunities to access decent work or develop a business that will enable them to attain economic stability, prevent migration and eliminate involvement in gangs or organized crime. |
| Other | The project has an innovative approach through the following strategies: |
| Other | (1)Plan will replicate the current mobile technology lab in Carcha called Nomada, which is a Samsung-equipped portable car, with technology at the community level. |
| Other | (2)Work through technology centers to support the delivery of the training curriculum in three municipalities with the support of the local government. |
| Other | (3)Create new training modules including financial literacy. The project will partner with a business accelerator advisor to link successful entrepreneurs to social impact investing and identify market opportunities. |
| Other | (4)Develop a technological platform to foster networking, access new employment vacancies and enable market research to trade the entrepreneur's products or services based on the Training Employment Support Service Assistant (TESSA), a digital ecosystem designed by Plan International Asia. |
| Other | The project has adopted a number of digital solutions to allow the program to continue despite restrictions on in-person trainings. Program participants have received data-enabled tablets that are connected to a variety of on-line training courses to allow young women and men to continue their engagement in the program while also keeping up with school work. Facilitators are continuing regular mentorship of participants through WhatsApp and phone calls. |
| Other | B. BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS |
| Other | As part of our mission, we promote learning and understanding between people of different countries and cultures. Our child sponsorship program - through which a sponsor in the U.S. is linked with a child in need - encourages children and sponsors to exchange letters, cards and photographs as a way to better understand each other's cultures. Through our website and sponsor communications, we frequently urge sponsors to send email communications and letters to their sponsored children. These cross-cultural exchanges provide the foundation for the sponsor/child relationship. |
| Other | Plan also provides various communications to sponsors throughout the year. Sponsors are introduced to their children through initial materials in their Sponsorship Guide. The "Sponsored Child Introduction" provides information on the child and his or her family. This background information is accompanied by an "Area Overview" that provides information relevant to activities, programs and projects in the sponsored child's program area and country. Our annual "Sponsored Child Update" also details activities, programs and projects within a child's program area and country. This update is accompanied by new photographs of the sponsored child and his or her family members. |
| Other | Building relationships is a reciprocal process, and we frequently encourage two-way communications. We contact all new sponsors to welcome them to Plan and encourage them to write to their sponsored children. To support sponsors in writing to their sponsored children consistently, we provide turn-around stationery several times throughout the year. In addition, we remind sponsors of their children's upcoming birthdays and encourage them to send birthday greetings. |
| Other | When COVID-19 emerged, we were determined to keep sponsors and sponsored children updated about each other's wellbeing. Sponsored children expressed concern for their sponsors and we shared this sentiment via an email communication to all sponsors, encouraging sponsors to respond by sharing photographs and emails of their personal experiences during the pandemic. These photographs and sentiments were utilized to create an update for our country offices to be shared with sponsored children globally. The individual messages of hope were also passed to country offices and on to sponsored children as it was safe to do so. |
| Other | During FY20, there were more than 94,740 instances of communications between sponsors, sponsored children and families, and the child's local Plan office. These communications are processed through a centralized communications and mail area at the Plan office in Warwick, RI. |
| Other | The cost of $909,284 associated with cross-cultural exchanges is known as "Building Relationships." |
| Other | C. DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND ADVOCACY |
| Other | Plan International USA's development education, public engagement and advocacy efforts are focused on contributing to the global Plan federation's goal of enabling 100 million girls to learn, lead, decide and thrive - specifically seeking to positively impact 10 million girls around the world and in the U.S. by supporting their efforts to become effective champions of change and help address dynamics in their communities that keep girls from advancing. We aim to achieve these objectives in part by communicating with our supporters and partners to raise awareness around gender norms and inequalities that prevent girls from achieving their true potential; advocate for increased voice and representation of girls and young people, creating the space for those opinions, ideas and experiences to be shared; ensure that girls feel safe, confident, supported and respected; and celebrate impactful moments and champions of girls' equality. |
| Other | In FY20, Plan identified and executed several youth-focused activations in an effort to build a stronger youth network in the U.S. For example, as a celebratory campaign designed to highlight gender equality change-makers through a social, bracket-style competition, Plan's Vote for the GOAT (VftG) campaign aimed to meet young people on the platforms with which they're currently engaged to build a larger, more socially active youth member base that seeks to make an impact around gender equality issues in the U.S. and globally. Despite the campaign being suspended due to COVID-19, we received significant traffic to our VftG microsite, as well as traffic to our main website from the campaign. Our influencers/partners were responsible for driving much of this traffic, and those who came to the microsite from an influencer post were more engaged overall. We continue to work closely with influential young people, as well as our own network of active youth, to explore additional campaigns highlighting girls' rights and gender equality in the U.S. and around the world. |
| Other | We worked closely with Plan's Youth Advisory Board (YAB) to align our organizational messaging to the issues closest to the concerns of youth. We continued to leverage Plan's comprehensive research findings that examined U.S. adolescents' views, and influences that shape those views, of gender equality. Much of our work shifted with the onset of COVID-19, but we continued to reach out to youth with more relevant messaging aimed at responding and dealing with the pandemic. Plan also began its initial work with the digital advocacy platform Phone2Action. This enabled us to create a call to action around increased foreign aid to respond to COVID-19 and will allow for additional advocacy messages to be sent to Plan's supporters in FY21. |
| Other | Plan's domestic youth engagement programming includes a number of initiatives designed to engage U.S. youth in both the governance of the organization and as advocates for issues affecting youth, particularly girls, around the world. The YAB is a group of high school and college-age youth who serve as a resource to organizational decision-makers, to reinforce our mission of working both for and with girls and young people. Roles and responsibilities include contributing to strategic priorities, budgeting and program design, while also serving as advocates who bring youth perspectives and ideas into influential spaces where decisions are being made. In addition, Plan runs an annual summer leadership and advocacy program called the Youth Leadership Academy (YLA). The YLA aims to build the capacity of high school-age youth in leadership, advocacy and civic engagement, while increasing knowledge about the world's most pressing gender equality and development issues. |
| Other | Additionally, Plan continues to foster policy change in two main focus areas: global gender equality and increasing the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance. As co-chair of the Big Ideas for Women and Girls Coalition and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), Plan is playing a leadership role in civil society coalitions advocating for change on these issues. For example, in FY20, Plan led efforts to prevent negative changes to USAID's gender equality policy. Plan also led efforts to reform USAID through policy papers and dialogues with agency leadership and innovators. Plan also advocated for these changes with the Congressional committees that hold sway over the agency. Plan continues to work through a number of membership groups that span the international development sector, including the Society for International Development (SID), U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) and InterAction. Through a series of policy events and private meetings, Plan has brought the voices and perspectives of young female advocates and other experts to decision-makers and influencers on Capitol Hill, at the National Security Council, the State Department, USAID and the wider development community. |
| Other | Plan's strategic partnerships are another important element of our efforts to increase awareness about challenges in the developing world, especially around gender inequality. By linking Plan's mission with household companies and brands, our reach increases exponentially. Following the success of the #XQNAMUJER (#CAUSEGIRLS) campaign with Viacom's Comedy Central brand in 2018, Plan entered into an agreement with Viacom's MTV Networks Latin America (MTVNLA) in 2019 to launch the same campaign under the MTV brand. This work continued into FY20. Using existing messaging and content from PII's Girls Get Equal campaign, MTV and MTVTres launched its own version of this campaign targeted at young viewers ages 15-24 across Latin America and reaching more than 35 million households in the U.S. The four-month campaign consisted of social media, two MTV News segments and five public service announcements (PSAs) airing on television and on a free mobile application, MTV Play. Valued at $1.8 million, this bold campaign generated awareness around gender equality and featured several games such as "truth or dare," that challenged perceptions of girls in sports. |
| Other | In March 2020, Plan partnered once again with MTVNLA for the #PARA E PENSA (#STOP&THINK) campaign that highlighted how gender inequality and GBV are everyone's problem, not just those who are victims of it. The campaign targeted individuals ages 16-34 and ran on-air and digitally throughout all of Latin America, the Caribbean, Brazil and the U.S., in Spanish and Portuguese. The final phase of this campaign will surround International Day of the Girl (IDG) and finish in November 2020 in FY21. Some aspects of the campaign include "This is Awesome," which featured weekly clippings of good news about gender equality and "I Assume," which gathered testimonials of men and women that assume responsibility for sexist behavior and regret it. As this campaign is taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic, additional messaging is being added around gender-based violence in times of social distancing. Plan has ambitions to expand the campaign into a larger phase with MTV International, with on-air and digital assets, activations and distributions in English and French all across the world. |
| Other | IDG 2019 was a multi-faceted occasion. Plan International launched ground-breaking research with the Geena Davis Institute into how film and media stereotypes affect the lives and leadership ambitions of girls and young women. The research revealed that the world's most popular films are sending the message to girls and young women that leadership is mostly for men. Plan asked the public to help rewrite the story of girls in the media with the IDG theme #RewriteHerStory. Globally, the hashtag garnered more than 2,100 posts, 145 million impressions and engagement from celebrities such as Reese Witherspoon, Summer Sanders, Emma Watson and Yara Shahidi from September 23-October 18. |
| Other | In the U.S., Plan's youth ambassadors took this message directly to powerful content creators and storytellers in the media industry through our annual Takeovers. Girls "took over" roles at ABC Network, NBC Universal, The Female Quotient (TFQ), Viacom, MSNBC, Creative Artists Agency, Hulu, YouTube and, for the first time ever, Congress. Several YAB members also participated in TFQ events in New York City during AdWeek, including through podcasts and panels. There were also events on Capitol Hill. At one such event with Save the Children, two of Plan's Youth Advisory Board members spoke alongside Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI). At another event with Procter & Gamble (P&G) on period poverty in the U.S., Plan's President and CEO spoke on a panel. Both events were well attended by Hill staffers and thought leaders in the gender space. |
| Other | In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, total Public Engagement and Advocacy expenses were $1,985,187. During FY20, Plan International USA initiated more than 354,000 mailed or emailed communications to educate our donors and partners; and also participated in dozens of presentations, activities and forums. |
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