Plan Nepal: what we do

Plan’s strategy in Nepal covers 5 core areas, all of which are rooted in child rights:

• health, water, sanitation and hygiene
• basic education
• household economic security
• child protection
• child-centered disaster risk management

Plan Nepal works to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates through Pregnant Women's Groups by establishing, equipping and staffing birthing centres and training health workers.
We  work  to establish birthing centres in rural health posts and hospitals. Plan also focuses on supporting the construction of community-managed piped water supply systems, enhancing community capacity, managing services and promoting the treatment of drinking water.
We facilitate sanitation campaigns led by children and the community to keep the environment healthy and clean.

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Plan Sudan: what we do

Plan’s programmes have been designed to address the main issues affecting children in Sudan:

• children’s health
• water, sanitation and hygiene
• learning for life
• sustainable economic security.

We work with children and communities to identify the most pressing health needs, and support them on the management of health interventions – such as immunisation, malaria control and nutrition.

Plan provides basic medical equipment and health training to primary healthcare providers, mothers and community members. From HIV awareness days to malaria action week, we help promote behavioural change through health-focused social events.

We also promote birth registration so that children receive an official identity and access their right to social services, including healthcare.

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Plan Malawi: what we do

Plan’s work in Malawi covers 5 key areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child.  The approach is based on the Human Rights Based Approach to Development (HRBAD) from which Plan’s Child Centred Community Development (CCCD) approach derives its core principles.

The 5 main areas are:

• Sexual Reproduction and Child Health
• Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
• Quality Basic Education
• Child Protection and Participation
• Youth Participation and Empowerment

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Plan Kenya: what we do

Plan Kenya’s work to improve children’s lives covers 7 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• child survival
• child protection
• education
• child participation
• youth economic empowerment
• HIV and AIDS prevention
• sanitation

Plan works with communities to reduce child mortality by preventing diseases and other conditions, such as malnutrition, that lead to poor child development and premature death.

This programme focuses on fighting violence against children in school, at home and in the community.  As part of our Learn Without Fear campaign to end violence aginst children in schools, we have launched an SMS campaign where children who have been violated can receive help. We are also working with teacher organisations to address the issue of corporal punishment in schools.

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Plan Guinea-Bissau: what we do

Plan’s work in Guinea-Bissau covers 4 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• quality basic education
• mother and child health care
• potable water and sanitation
• children’s role in civil society.

Plan Guinea-Bissau works to increase access to quality basic education for all children, and decrease drop-out and repetition rates.

The returns on investment in basic education are very high and there are knock-on benefits: better health and nutrition, reductions in the spread of HIV and other diseases and also new employment opportunities.

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Improving Sanitation – and Health – in Cambodia

In Cambodia, poverty, a lack of infrastructure, and a long standing practice of open defecation all contribute to poor sanitation. In areas where people go to the bathroom in the open, contact with feces can result in illnesses being easily transmitted through what is known as the four “Fs”: food, fingers, flies, and fields. The most common condition is diarrhea, which still causes more deaths in children under the age of 5 than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, combined.

Even when death isn’t an outcome, repeated bouts of diarrhea at a young age can often lead to malnutrition and stunted growth. In addition, when children miss school and adults miss work due to sickness, economic opportunities are often lost.

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Plan's approach to water and environmental sanitation

Safe water and environmental sanitation (WES) services such as solid and liquid waste facilities, vector and pest control as well as food hygiene, are vital for ensuring the healthy development and dignity of children. The lack of such facilities is responsible for over 2,000,000 child deaths each year.

This working paper aims to position Plan’s approach to WES within the context of the broader international development goals and within Plan’s own commitment to Child Centred Community Development (CCCD). It looks at the main challenges linked to WES and details the ways in which Plan staff can put our approach into practice.

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Water Projects Turn Semi-Arid Region into a Green-Belt

Once billed a semi-arid region, Machakos County in Kenya–home to nearly 1 million people–is fast becoming a green-belt, thanks to Plan’s supported projects which are helping to improve food and water availability in the region.

Since 2010, communities in Machakos have been implementing dam construction, borehole drilling and solar powered water projects, which have not only lessened the effects of drought but ushered the community into a cash economy.

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Ensuring a clean water supply after floods

People in Uttarakhand, India, are coping with the aftermath of devastating floods – the worst in the region in the last 20 years. As the flood waters which caused death and destruction recede, water will continue to create life-threatening problems. “Immediate priorities during and after a flood will be minimising risks of outbreaks of waterborne diseases, which will be very high due to anything and everything being washed everywhere – notably into water supplies,” says James Robertson, Plan UK’s water and sanitation expert.

Tragically in Uttarakhand, where hundreds of people were killed in the flooding, (thousands are missing) water supplies are seriously contaminated, “These are the only sources of water the people here have. The water needs to be disinfected or else disease will spread further,” adds Murali Kunduru, Plan’s emergency response manager in India.

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Female Commune Leader is a Sanitation Champion

Mrs. Eng is the leader of the Sokong commune which is situated along the Mekong River in Kong Meas district, Kampong Cham province.

As commune leader, Mrs. Eng promotes and supports good governance in her commune and helps with the management and use of existing resources in a sustainable way while also serving the common interests of the local community. Prior to becoming a commune leader, Mrs. Eng was an active commune council member tending to the women-focused social affairs of the commune.

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