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Achievements <strong>and</strong> awards in 2012<br />
Paraguay bank launches products for<br />
village women<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> has convinced a leading commercial bank, Financiera El Comercio, to add new<br />
financial services <strong>and</strong> products for clients never before reached by a mainstream bank:<br />
poor, often illiterate village women. The new products will be based on <strong>Plan</strong>’s village<br />
banking methodology. The project has been so successful that the bank’s new services<br />
now extend to clients in areas beyond <strong>Plan</strong>’s project communities. “This is the type<br />
of influence <strong>and</strong> advocacy we encourage,” says Delores McLaughlin, <strong>Plan</strong>’s Senior<br />
Policy Advisor for Economic Security.<br />
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PLAN’S CAMPAIGN WINS<br />
SUPPORT OF THAI PREMIER<br />
In Thail<strong>and</strong>, the launch of <strong>Plan</strong>’s Because I am a<br />
Girl report had a very special guest of honour:<br />
the first female prime minister, Yingluck<br />
Shinawatra. Addressing the gathering,<br />
Ms Shinawatra declared that gender equality<br />
is a key priority for her government <strong>and</strong> said<br />
that Thail<strong>and</strong> will be a strong supporter of<br />
better welfare <strong>and</strong> well-being for girls <strong>and</strong><br />
women <strong>and</strong> a good partner to organisations<br />
such as <strong>Plan</strong>.<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> sets ambitious<br />
goal to reach 325,000<br />
Tanzanian children<br />
<strong>Plan</strong> has partnered with international NGOs,<br />
Jhpiego <strong>and</strong> Africare, to support Tanzania’s<br />
Ministry of Health <strong>and</strong> Social Welfare in<br />
achieving Millennium Development Goals<br />
4 <strong>and</strong> 5, to reduce mortality among children<br />
aged under five <strong>and</strong> maternal mortality in<br />
four districts.<br />
With support from the Canadian International<br />
Development Agency (CIDA), the project will<br />
increase local involvement <strong>and</strong> exp<strong>and</strong> the<br />
use of cost-effective best practices. It will<br />
directly benefit more than 300,000 women<br />
of childbearing age, 80,000 men <strong>and</strong> 325,000<br />
children. It will also build the capacity of more<br />
than 1,000 government health workers in<br />
199 health facilities <strong>and</strong> support around<br />
5,160 community volunteers in 516 villages.<br />
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<strong>Plan</strong> Haiti youth<br />
club member<br />
addresses<br />
United Nations<br />
Rose-Camille, aged 19, a member of one<br />
of <strong>Plan</strong> Haiti’s youth clubs, spoke on<br />
behalf of the Haitian youth delegation<br />
at the United Nations during the High<br />
Level Meeting on Youth in July 2011.<br />
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ADVOCACY AND<br />
INCLUSION IN ACTION<br />
IN TIMOR-LESTE<br />
In Timor-Leste, <strong>Plan</strong> helped establish an NGO Coalition<br />
on Children’s Rights <strong>and</strong> helped develop a national<br />
disability policy, which was formally launched in July<br />
2012. The rights of disabled children <strong>and</strong> children in<br />
general will be strengthened as a result both of the<br />
increased NGO action in this field <strong>and</strong> the new<br />
policy, which these organisations can use to<br />
bolster their initiatives.<br />
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