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