Section 3
Reference Plan’s Because I am a Girl campaign ........................................... 154
Introduction ..................................................................................... 155
Where does the money go?.......................................................... 156
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
PLAN
About Plan International ............................................................... 220
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