Plan India Girls Advocacy Alliance

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Plan India Girls Advocacy Alliance

• A gradual change is being witnessed in ensuring
  equal rights and opportunities for girls in the
  states of Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Telangana state
  (TS). Governments of AP and TS have taken
  official cognisance of the burgeoning child
  rights problem. Work has begun to amend and plug
  the loopholes in the law that allows child
  marriages. Religious leaders are spearheading
  awareness drives about the economic, health and
  legal repercussions of child marriages within
  their communities. Village-level Child Protection
  Committees (CPCs) are being formed and
  strengthened based on the guidelines created by
  Plan India in collaboration with the state
  governments. A strategy paper examining corporate
  social responsibility spending beyond primary
  education of girls and identifying the lacunae in
  support for secondary and higher education which
  accounts for the highest dropout rates, has been
  published. All these initiatives are a part of
  Plan Indias biggest global advocacy programme,
  Girls Advocacy Alliance (GAA). GAA is an
  initiative of Plan InternationalPlan
  Netherlands, Terre des Hommes Netherlands and
  Defence for ChildrenECPAT Netherlands and funded
  by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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• The projects goal is to create an environment
  where girls can build a life of self-reliance,
  dignity and financial independence. GAA focuses
  on systemic and attitudinal changes to stop child
  marriages and child trafficking by promoting
  secondary education for girls and job oriented
  vocational training (JOVT) for young women.
• Plan Indias innovative strategies for changing
  social norms, networking, influencing, and
  gathering evidence are beginning to bear fruit.
  Youth advocates of GAA are actively raising their
  voices to demand their rights. Work is in
  progress with the private sector to promote
  focused spending and establishing infrastructure
  to create opportunities for continued secondary
  education and JOVT for young women. Plan is
  successfully breaking siloes and creating
  synergies between the judiciary and the
  government departments of state legal services,
  education, and women and child welfare to protect
  girls rights. The project also sensitises other
  CSOs to incorporate the GAA themes into their
  core operations and advocacy.

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• Highlights
• 26,08,393 potential people reached through
  policy-level changes on Girls Advocacy Alliance
  focus themes of child marriages, child
  trafficking, and secondary education.
• 194,13,478 potential girls reached through
  policy-level changes on Girls Advocacy Alliance
  focus themes of child marriages, child
  trafficking, and secondary education.
• 334 religious leaders engaged in ending child
  marriages.
• Collaboration with 108 Civil Society
  Organizations for influencing and advocacy
  actions on gender-based violence and girls
  education.
• 394 youth advocates empowered to raise voice
  against gender-based violence and girls
  education.
• Together with the state government 49,70,198
  girls and 36,17,533 boys reached out with
  messaging on combating child marriages and
  trafficking as well as on the importance of
  secondary education and skilling.

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• https//www.planindia.org/get-involved/make-a-dona
  tion/because-i-am-a-girl-2/