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Plan believes that all children and young people should have a say in decisions that affect them and so we support a wide range of work by young people all over the world to do just that. The Programme Partnership Agreement that Plan (PPA) has entered into with the Department for International Development (DfID) is a five-year-programme that provides the core support for Plan UK’s Governance Programme.
The programme provides the resources to create more opportunities for young people to engage in governance processes all over the world. Focusing on ‘young citizens’ the PPA allows Plan to pursue opportunities to:
- Increase the participation and representation of young citizens in governance processes;
- Increase young citizens’ access to better services because of their participation in governance processes;
- Ensure greater inclusion for typically marginalised groups like orphans, other vulnerable children, and women; and
- and share knowledge about addressing the root causes of child poverty.
Objectives: to practise a child-centred approach to community development, to work in partnerships and alliances, and to make long-term commitments to children living in poverty.
During the year, Plan UK:
- Continued to work closely with Plan regional and country offices to develop and manage projects that have been supported by the Governance Programme. The projects include those that are intended to: (a) strengthen young people’s voice and action so that they are able to exercise their right to participate in governance processes; (b) work with local authorities to provide clear roles for and benefits to young people for the services they deliver; (c) strengthen advocacy initiatives around social protection issues especially in contexts where these have direct benefits to children and young people; (d) strengthen the awareness of global development of young people in the UK through various development education, school linking initiatives, and the activities of Plan UK’s Children’s Advisory Panel;
- Developed systems for managing the programme, including developing open and transparent ways for identifying and selecting projects for support; establishing coordination and information sharing mechanisms among those involved in the various aspects of the Governance Programme both with the UK office and in other Plan offices overseas; and generating a framework for institutional learning from the programme;
- Continued to collaborate with Plan offices on a common Global Youth Engagement agenda.
In the future, Plan UK will:
- Continue to work with Plan regional and country offices to deliver the quality of all projects underway, responding to and addressing the challenges that their implementation encounter, and setting up the mechanisms to ensure Plan learns from dealing with these challenges;
- Work with Plan regional and country offices to develop new projects and undertakings that will contribute to the realization of the outcomes that the Governance Programme has set to realise;
- Continue to collaborate with other Plan offices on a common Global Youth Engagement agenda.
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