A decade of conflict in Syria has led to a sharp decline in girls’ rights. This research – carried out in Northwest Syria with Women Now for Development – examines the “invisible” toll that years of war, exacerbated by gender inequality, has taken on girls and young women.
Plan International and Arup developed the Child-Centred Urban Resilience Framework to involve vulnerable groups in planning processes. The framework guides organisations to design, plan and implement community resilience activities in urban settings.
Experts say COVID-19 is now spreading rapidly throughout the world’s most vulnerable regions and could soon tear through poor, displaced and conflict-affected communities, pushing more than half a billion people into poverty and food insecurity. These are five of the biggest challenges the world’s most vulnerable communities are facing because of the virus.
Understanding the ways in which refugee and vulnerable adolescent girls experience insecurity and demonstrate resilience in Beirut provides a foundation for the humanitarian sector to partner with them in both addressing their concerns and enhancing their capacities.
Conflict in South Sudan has displaced four million people and left girls in particular at risk. This report explores how adolescent girls understand and respond to the unique impact their country’s crisis has upon them. It draws on research conducted with girls and members of their families and communities in South Sudan and Uganda.
