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