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Work during 2012 towards our strategy<br />
1 Tackling exclusion<br />
Reaching marginalised children<br />
<strong>and</strong> communities<br />
We aim to focus our work on children <strong>and</strong><br />
families who have been excluded from<br />
development because of poverty, ethnicity,<br />
gender, disability or other factors. Reaching<br />
excluded groups <strong>and</strong> individuals within<br />
communities requires dedication, persistence,<br />
time, money <strong>and</strong> cultural sensitivity. <strong>Plan</strong> has many<br />
programmes targeted at excluded groups, however,<br />
ensuring all our programmes <strong>and</strong> processes engage<br />
with the most vulnerable <strong>and</strong> excluded people is<br />
very challenging <strong>and</strong> complex.<br />
With the help of expert external consultants<br />
we have reviewed our current practice <strong>and</strong><br />
developed a comprehensive approach to<br />
tackling exclusion, <strong>and</strong> a plan for addressing<br />
the implications of this commitment for <strong>Plan</strong>.<br />
This will be a long-term process, requiring<br />
sustained management commitment.<br />
Many of our programme countries are exploring<br />
issues around exclusion in their local context.<br />
They are looking critically at which children <strong>and</strong><br />
youth are reached by our work – <strong>and</strong> which are<br />
left out – <strong>and</strong> are developing new ways to tackle<br />
both the causes <strong>and</strong> consequences of exclusion.<br />
Promoting gender equality<br />
One of our priorities in tackling exclusion is<br />
promoting gender equality. In 2012, we rolled out<br />
our gender policy globally. We are also developing<br />
a gender audit tool for our programme work.<br />
See the section on Assessing <strong>and</strong> increasing our<br />
effectiveness on page 10 to read about more<br />
about the work we have done in this key area.<br />
2 Improving programme quality<br />
This commitment does not only involve<br />
keeping track of the impact that our<br />
programmes have on individuals <strong>and</strong><br />
communities. It also means making sure<br />
that each element of programming –<br />
including identifying communities, designing<br />
<strong>and</strong> agreeing programmes with communities,<br />
providing training <strong>and</strong> assessing <strong>and</strong> reporting<br />
on outcomes – is of the highest possible quality.<br />
Our performance agenda<br />
We have been working to define further our<br />
child-centred community development approach<br />
to ensure field staff consistently provide high<br />
quality assistance to the people they work with.<br />
To read more, see the section on Assessing <strong>and</strong><br />
increasing our effectiveness on page 10.<br />
Developing an academy for continuous<br />
staff learning<br />
This centre of excellence will make sure <strong>Plan</strong>’s<br />
staff reflect <strong>and</strong> learn on our core principles<br />
of child-centred community development.<br />
The academy will improve our staff’s<br />
knowledge, skills <strong>and</strong> practices in community<br />
development <strong>and</strong> emergencies. We have<br />
recruited a team to manage this project.<br />
Our academy should be operational by<br />
the end of 2013.<br />
Boosting technical knowledge in<br />
thematic areas<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> is putting in place global teams of technical<br />
advisors, who will work to improve the quality<br />
<strong>and</strong> effectiveness of our programmes within<br />
thematic areas such as gender, child protection<br />
<strong>and</strong> education.<br />
3 Exp<strong>and</strong>ing successful programmes<br />
Replicating effective projects to reach<br />
more children <strong>and</strong> young people<br />
We want to ensure that our programmes achieve<br />
maximum impact. This may mean identifying<br />
interventions that can be implemented on a larger<br />
scale to reach more children. It may also mean<br />
improving programmes to reach the most difficult<br />
to reach; or working with others to adopt <strong>and</strong><br />
replicate good practice.<br />
We are working to develop a broader<br />
underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the concept of scaling up<br />
because looking from a rights-based perspective,<br />
bigger is not always better. A review conducted<br />
in 2012 (see <strong>Review</strong>ing our work to scale up<br />
programmes on page 11) proposed a new<br />
definition <strong>and</strong> encouraged us to always ask the<br />
critical question: “What is the best way to scale<br />
up this programme?”<br />
We have also established a research <strong>and</strong> a<br />
knowledge management group to improve the<br />
quality of research <strong>and</strong> ensure that <strong>Plan</strong> teams<br />
share <strong>and</strong> learn effectively from our experiences.<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> in five years’ time<br />
4 Extending our influence<br />
Strengthening our global advocacy on<br />
behalf of children <strong>and</strong> young people<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> seeks to become a leader of global<br />
thinking <strong>and</strong> advocacy, particularly in the<br />
areas of education <strong>and</strong> child protection.<br />
Significant work took place during 2012<br />
to build our internal capacity <strong>and</strong> skills so<br />
we can launch our global Because I am a Girl<br />
campaign in October 2012. Our overarching<br />
campaign goal, to ensure girls transition to<br />
post primary education, is led by advocacy<br />
goals, supported with programme efforts<br />
<strong>and</strong> communications messaging.<br />
We have opened offices in New York <strong>and</strong><br />
Addis Ababa, adding to our current teams<br />
in Brussels <strong>and</strong> Geneva, to enable closer links<br />
with the UN <strong>and</strong> the NGO community.<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> will be an organisation known for quality, rights-based programmes for children,<br />
especially those who are most marginalised – our programmes will make significant<br />
impacts on the lives of children <strong>and</strong> their families. Above all, we will be an organisation<br />
that listens to its stakeholders <strong>and</strong> supports them to have a voice <strong>and</strong> be heard.<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> will also be recognised for its sound, collaborative processes, including a strong,<br />
modern, shared monitoring <strong>and</strong> evaluation system.<br />
For further information <strong>and</strong> updates on our strategic progress, please visit<br />
plan-international.org/strategy<br />
OUR STRATEGY<br />
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