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Because I am a Girl

THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S GIRLS 2010

Digital and Urban Frontiers: Girls in a Changing Landscape

MARK HENLEY / PANOS PICTURES

Because I am a Girl

THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S GIRLS 2010

Digital and Urban Frontiers: Girls in a Changing Landscape

Acknowledgements

This report was made possible with the advice and contributions of many people and organisations.

Global Advisory Panel: Anja Stuckert Annabel Webb Ann-Kristin Vervik Carolyn Rose-Avila Cheryl G. Faye Claudia Mitchell

Cynthia Steele Deepali Sood Diana Rivington Elkin Velasquez Francisco Cos-Montiel

Kathryn Travers Kathy Hall Kemi Williams Linda Raftree Lisa MacCallum Lesley Bulman-Lever Lucero Quiroga Lucia Kiwala Nazneen Damji Noreen Khan Nigel Chapman Rosemary McCarney Ruth Pearson

Marie Staunton Mayra Gomez Meg Greene Mima Perisic

Seodi White Simon Heap Suzanne Williams Trine Lunde

Program Gender Advisor, Plan Germany Director, Justice for Girls Senior Child Rights Advisor, Plan Geneva Deputy Vice President, Plan USA Head of UNGEI Secreteriat, UNICEF James McGill Professor of Visual Arts-based Methodologies, HIV&AIDS and Social Change, McGill University Executive Vice-President, EMPower Head of Global Because I am a Girl Campaign, Plan International Director of Equality Between Men and Women, CIDA Coordinator ? Safe Cities Unit, UN-Habitat Senior Program Specialist, Women's Rights and Citizenship International Development Research Centre, (IDRC) Analyst and Project Officer, Women in Cities International Senior Program Officer, Summit Foundation Senior Gender and Rights Advisor, Department for International Development (DFID) Advisor, Social Media and New Technology, Plan West Africa Regional Office Managing Director, Nike Foundation Formerly of World Association of Girl Guides and Girls Scouts Consultant, Gender Expert Chief, Gender Mainstreaming Unit, UN-Habitat Programme Manager Gender equality and HIV/AIDS, UNIFEM Gender Unit, UNICEF CEO, Plan International CEO, Plan Canada Professor of International Development, School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Leeds University CEO, Plan UK Senior Expert ? Women & Housing Rights Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, COHRE Consultant UNICEF Advisor, Adolescent Development, Adolescent Development and Participation Unit Division of Policy & Planning National Coordinator of Women and the Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust, Malawi Head of Research, Plan International International Institute for Child Rights and Development Economist, Gender and Development Group, PREM World Bank

Input was also received from, among others: Lynn Renken and Nythia Gopu (Nike Foundation), Savina Greenickx (StreetChild Africa), Louise Meincke (Consortium for Street Children), Dr Graham Ritchie, Helen Penn and Gabrielle Shaw (CEOP), Susan Schor (ITU), Kulsoom Ali and Michael Quesnell (Nokia Corporation), Kreeta Ryodi and Emma Bluck (Cisco), Akhtar Badshah (Microsoft), Kanwal Ahluwalia (Plan UK).

Steering Group ? Plan International: Alistair Clay, Alexander Munive, Aimee Suchard, Belinda Portillo, Brad Henderson, Chitra Iyer, Don McPhee, Fadimata Alainchar, Hellen Tombo, Jeanette McKenna, Jon Martin Forland, Kate Fehlenberg, Lydia M Domingo, Ndungu Kahihu, Patrick van Ahee, Rebecca Lake, Rosanna Viteri, Silje Bundeng, Stuart Coles, Stefanie Conrad, Terence McCaughan.

Legal input received from: Kristen Anderson, Ruth Barnes and Erica Hall, Essex Children's Legal Centre.

Thank you to: Emily Lundell (Plan USA), Michael Diamond and Lydia Domingo (Plan Philippines), Hellen Tombo (Plan East and South Africa) and everyone in Plan Egypt, Plan Brazil, Plan Netherlands and Plan Sudan.

Special thank you to: Amos Trust and the Consortium for Street Children for inviting Plan to hold a girl-only session at the Street Child World Cup (2010), to Savina Greenickx from Street Child Africa for coordinating a comprehensive survey of street girls in Ghana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to Suzanne Williams and Michael Montgomery (IICRD) and the Child Protection Partnership for the research on girls' online protection from Brazil, and to Justice for Girls for the research on adolescent girls and their experience of detention and rehabilitation in the Philippines.

ALEX ANDRE MENEGHINI / AP/PA

Girls skipping on a roof in the ruined Haitian city of Port-au-Prince.

Principal writer: Report team:

Nikki van der Gaag Feyi Rodway ? cohort coordinator Keshet Bachan ? project coordinator Sarah Hendriks ? gender advisor Sharon Goulds ? project lead Simone Schneider ? picture research

Research: Helen Barley, Jo Holmes, Keren Simons, Laura Margarita Gomez, Rachel McManus

Special thank you to the families taking part in the `Real Choices, Real Lives' cohort study and to the Plan staff involved.

All maps in Section 3 courtesy of Maplecroft and .

Printed by Graphicom, Italy on recycled paper.

ISBN: 978-0-9565219-0-3

Design and production: New Internationalist Publications Ltd

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this publication is accurate at the time of going to press, Plan cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies.

The commentary and opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the official policy of Plan.

Parts of this publication may be copied for use in research, advocacy and education, providing the source is acknowledged. This publication may not be reproduced for other purposes without the prior permission of Plan UK.

Unless otherwise indicated, names have been changed in case studies to protect identities. Unless otherwise indicated, dollar values expressed are US dollars.

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