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Achievements and awards in 2012
Plan Germany’s exhibition
about girls draws crowds
in Switzerland
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Plan Europe urges EU:
invest in children
The European Union provides over half of all
development assistance worldwide. When the
first budget proposal for development assistance
(a multi-annual budget for 2014-2020) was released,
it had removed key items relating to children –
particularly health and quality education. Plan
built a Europe-wide campaign to lobby European
governments on behalf of children’s rights and
gender. The new draft position has reinstated
assistance services for children into the budget.
The centrepiece of Plan’s campaign is a short
video spelling out why children must be visible
in the EU development budget. Plan EU will keep
up the pressure until the final budget is released
next year.
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PLAN BRAZIL
HEADS NATIONAL
CHILD RIGHTS
FORUM
Plan Brazil has been
awarded the presidency
of Brazil’s National Forum
on the Rights of Children
and Adolescents for
2012-2013. The forum,
established in 1988,
is a permanent nongovernmental
consortium
of 57 organisations
focused on defending
the rights of children
and adolescents. Its
mission is to ensure that
their rights are realised,
through campaigning,
working in partnerships,
monitoring public policies
and inspiring public
commitment to build
a free, just and caring
society. Plan Brazil
has been a member
since 2005.
At the Political Forum of the Swiss government,
14,000 people visited an interactive exhibition
called ‘Because We Are Girls’, exploring the lives
of adolescent girls in Mali, India and Ecuador.
Produced by Plan Germany in 2006, the
exhibition toured many German cities before
arriving in Bern, Switzerland, where its stay was
extended due to popular demand.
Films formed part of the interactive exhibition
to raise awareness on issues facing girls,
opened by leading Swiss Senator, Anita Fetz
(pictured below). One teacher, visiting with her
class commented, “My students were very
interested and deeply moved – even the
boys! Now they understand how unfair
the world is for girls and that everyone
has to fight to change this.”
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PLAN UGANDA
RECEIVES
COMMONWEALTH
EDUCATION AWARD
Plan Uganda’s Community-Led Action for Children
project (see page 19) won the Commonwealth Education
Good Practice Award. The project demonstrated that
universal primary education can be realised through the
collaborative partnership of everyone who has a stake in
education – at the household, community, district and
national levels. The project works with disadvantaged
children from high-poverty communities and provides
holistic early childhood care and development support
to children under eight. The judges said that the project
addressed significant gaps in the lives of marginal and
excluded children.
The Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards are
held every three years, to celebrate and promote new and
innovative education projects across the Commonwealth.