What we do in the Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa Region
Learn more about Plan International’s key technical areas of work in the Region of the Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa.
Our key technical areas of work
Protection
We recognise that girls face distinct and heightened risks of violence throughout their life course, shaped by intersecting factors such as age, gender, disability, ethnicity, and displacement. Our protection work engages families, communities, service providers, and duty bearers
to prevent and respond to both online and offline violence.
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Our goal is to ensure children, adolescents and young people in all their diversity have control of their lives and bodies, and can make decisions about their sexuality, free from discrimination, coercion or violence.
Economic empowerment
Our focus is on empowering young women by facilitating their economic opportunities, addressing barriers to economic participation (such as negative gender norms that disproportionately place the burden of care and domestic work on women and girls) and strengthening their knowledge, skills, agency, and informed decision-making.
Education and Early Childhood Development
Our goal is to ensure vulnerable and excluded children access and complete inclusive quality education from pre-primary to secondary level.
Health, Nutrition, Water and Sanitation
Our focus is on strengthening systems, removing barriers to access and ensuring that services are inclusive, age-appropriate, and responsive to the diverse needs of those we support.
Our cross-cutting interventions
These cross-cutting areas are what make our work unique.
They are the foundation of our programming and influencing efforts, enabling us to deliver children’s rights, girl-centred, and gender-transformative impact across all thematic areas and in every context.
We work across different types of humanitarian crises, such as climate-related disasters, armed conflicts, displacement and refugee crisis, complex and protracted crisis and epidemics.
By working across sectors and in equitable internal and external partnership with communities, young people and humanitarian partners, we ensure that our support is not only lifesaving, but life-changing, protecting rights and promoting safeguarding and accountability to affected communities.