4.1.3 Plan International
4.1.3.1 Background
Plan International was founded over 75 years ago and is one of
the world's largest children development organisations. The organisation
focusses on ensuring that children are not excluded from decision making and
that they receive the education and protection they have a right to. Plan
International is active in 50 developing countries to promote children rights
and alienate poverty and as of 2013, the organisation has worked with over 78
million children in 90, 229 communities worldwide. Plan International's work to
promote children's right is based around the following 8 core areas (Plan
International, 2013): education, water and sanitation, health, protection,
economic security, emergencies, child participation and sexual and reproductive
health.
4.1.3.2 Goals and Strategy
Plan International's work worldwide supports the following
strategic goals:
- Tackling exclusion by improving the lives of children who are
marginalised for reasons such as language, ethnicity, disability and gender
- Improving programme quality by helping them adhere to global
policies and standards
- Expanding successful programmes by adapting and duplicating
them wherever they can benefit children
- Extending Plan International's influence worldwide
4.1.3.3 Sector of Activity
Plan International's work worldwide focuses on the following
sectors: Education, Health, Water and Sanitation, Health and Children
Protection.
4.1.3.4 Project Selection and Management
Plan's programmes are built around their Children Centred
Community Development (CCCD) initiative and their Programme Accountability and
Learning System (PALS). The Programme Accountability and Learning System cycle
consist of the following four stages (Plan International, 2009):
- Participatory Situation Analysis from a Child's rights
perspective: this stages consist of a general analysis of children's right with
a focus on what
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is being done and what is not currently being done in regards to
those rights with the aim of finding areas where Plan's work can fit.
- Strategic and Programme Planning: during this stage two types
of plans are developed; a Country Strategic Plan (CSP) which describes the way
Plan will respond to a situation and a Programme Unit (PU) Long-Term Plan which
describes how each programme unit will implement programmes. The Country
Strategic Plan helps in the identification of a country's goals and the
different levels of strategic responses needed in order to achieve them while
the Programme Unit Long-Term Plan sets specific objectives for the programmes
that will be individually implemented.
- Programme Implementation through Projects: different projects
funded through sponsorships and grants enable Plan to manage the implementation
of initiatives that are implemented continuously over the life span of a
programme.
- Programme Monitoring, Evaluation and Research: the framework
used for monitoring, evaluation and research is part of the Country Strategic
Plan and is used to track and capture changes within the programme environment.
This stage enables Plan to assess program progress, strengthen programme
accountability and improve learning.
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