4 education for increased resilience:
involving adolescent girls in disaster
risk reduction in schools . . . . . . 101
5 conclusion: ‘It is the duty
of the nation to protect
girls’ education’. . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Special features: 1 ‘Hidden in plain sight: young girls
in disasters’ – elaine enarson. . 104
2 Primary research from east and
southern Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Case studies and features education and emergencies and
adolescent girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Hard choices – boys rather
than girls? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Haymanot’s story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Because I was a girl… a bushfire
in Australia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
changing perceptions on
educating girls in Pakistan . . . . . . . 99
Girls access education for the first
time in Darfur refugee camps . . . 100
radio on: the rights of girls
in el salvador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
the G.I.r.r.l Project (girls in
risk reduction leadership) . . . . . . 107
Case studies and features
Case studies and features
Defining child participation . . . . . 113
schools – safe spaces for girls? . . 142
Keeping the snakes away
– shapla’s story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
‘We would feel safer’ – building latrines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
‘We could do that here’ –
involving girls in reducing
the risk of disasters. . . . . . . . . . . . 117
real choices, real lives: research from Philippines, el salvador and Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Kazol’s story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Because We are Girls: ‘real choices, real lives’ cohort study map . . . 150
Chapter 6 translating ambition
into action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Plan’s Because I am a Girl
campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
evidence: understanding the needs
and rights of adolescent
girls in disasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Where does the money go?. . . . . 156
resources: Providing targeted
services for adolescent girls. . . . . 133
Prevention, Participation and
Integration: Building girls’
resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Case studies and features
Keeping girls safe in a disaster . . 131 Promising Practice: International rescue committee . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 online survey: top Priorities. . . . 133
1 Part of the solution – adolescent girls
and participation in disasters . . 111
a) resilience and
adolescent girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Section 2 –
Practice: Violence Part of the solution: adolescent Promising against Women and Girls girls’ participation . . . . . . . . . 110 Innovation Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
3 ‘A way to be heard’ – exercising
power to support girls . . . . . . . 124
Special feature: 1 Primary research: Growing up fast – young women reflect on their
sexual and gender identities after
Hurricane Katrina . . . . . . . . . . . 122
2 real choices, real lives . . . . . . 126
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reference
Girls’ rights in emergencies:
Key Action Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Chapter 5
2 no voice for the most
marginalised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
a) the right to a full and decent life –
adolescent girls with disabilities. 119
b) ‘they told my parents they didn’t
need to feed me’ – discrimination on
the basis of sexual orientation. . . 121
Section 3 –
Because We are Girls: ‘real
Choices, real lives’ cohort
study update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
risk factors for girls . . . . . . . . . . . 138
coping with financial and
environmental stress . . . . . . . . . . 139
Girls’ education – ‘she’s only six and
she can write her own name’. . . . 141
reducing risk by
‘protecting’ girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Girls’ health – reducing the
burden of illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
legal Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
map A: Female youth illiteracy
and girls as heads of
households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
map B: Girls married before age
18 and girls who give birth
by the age of 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
case studies – promising practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
1 Haiti Adolescent Girls
network: ‘espas Pa mwen’
(my space). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
2 Plan Indonesia: child
centered Drr Project . . . . . . . 174
3 unHcr ethiopia: Advancing
the education of somali
refugee girls in ethiopia . . . . . . 177
4 Women’s refugee commission:
‘Protecting and empowering
Displaced Adolescent Girls
Initiative: ethiopia, tanzania
and uganda’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
references. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Girls online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Where Plan works . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
About Plan International . . . . . . . 220