We surveyed and interviewed more than 1000 young women aged 18-24 – most of them voting for the first time – and asked them about the key barriers to entering politics. You can review the full findings and insights from young people in the report below.
Mapping Youth Movements for Climate Resilience in Ethiopia, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Mozambique, Myanmar, Solomon Islands, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
This summary report highlights the key findings and recommendations from Plan International Australia’s technical report Mapping the financing for Climate and Girls’ Education in SE Asia and the Pacific, which provides the policy overlay to supporting young people’s calls to action as outlined in Plan International’s Reimaging Climate Education and Youth Leadership survey report.
Climate change is a social, intergenerational, gender, and racial injustice. Plan International aims to support children and youth to meaningfully and safely engage in climate policy processes and to reduce the barriers preventing them from engaging in and influencing climate policy and advocacy.
Girls in Australia should be growing up believing anything is possible – that they have choices and opportunities in their lives to shape the world they want to see. Instead, many are forced to abandon their leadership aspirations out of concern for their own safety in Parliament.
This isn’t good enough. In new polling we conducted this month of 507 young women aged 18-25, that figure has increased dramatically.
In our latest research, we asked girls and young women around Australia to share their hopes, dreams and concerns for the future, along with the people who inspire them the most. We found that they are overwhelmingly eager to lead change on the big social issues facing their generation and they look up to fierce, determined and unapologetic female leaders for inspiration.
Girls are redefining what it means to be a leader and projecting powerful self-assurance about their own potential. Almost two thirds of the girls and young women who participated in this research told us they are confident in their ability to lead and three-quarters actively want to become leaders in their careers, communities or countries.
This report builds on Plan International’s evidence base from Half A Billion Reasons and It’s Our Time. Having painted a picture of the lives of adolescent girls globally and in our region, this report highlights the national context in one of our nearest neighbours, the Solomon Islands.
