Reports and Publications

Interoperability and Data Sharing Between Civil Registration, Health Information, Statistics and Associated Systems

The registration of vital events such as births, deaths, marriages, and divorces hinges on extensive data sharing among various governmental and civil entities. Identity verification crucially depends on data exchange, allowing for real-time updates and the prevention of identity fraud. This process involves healthcare providers, vital records offices, public health agencies, funeral directors and court systems. These all need to coordinate in order to maintain accurate legal records and facilitate services like public health surveillance and civil document verification.

Marriage registration: a pathway to protection and empowerment

This study analyses and assesses the current marriage registration system in Bangladesh and identifies recommendations to improve understanding, access and availability of marriage registration services in Bangladesh, including urban, rural, and remote locations.

Time to Act! Let’s Go Digital!

Plan International’s research Time To Act: Let’s Go Digital reveals the benefits of using digital technologies in efforts to eliminate CEFM, particularly in terms of reaching a large number of people at once. The research report also offers key information about more than 40 existing digital technologies and applications with a high potential to prevent and end child marriage.

Online Safety in the Pacific

With cable internet systems rolling out across the Pacific, access to affordable and fast digital connectivity in the region is set to rapidly expand, opening up unprecedented opportunities for children but also potentially exposing them to new risks of harm.

Child-Centred Urban Resilience Framework: a tool for inclusive city planning

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.

How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change and Out-of-Control Fires in Australia

It can be hard to talk to kids about topics like climate change and the destruction of bushfires – especially the impact the fires may be having on them. This helpful guide is designed to help you navigate some of the difficult discussions with children that may come up during natural disasters in the context of climate change.

Girls’ Rights in Climate Strategies

The social and regional impacts of climate change are not distributed equally or evenly. Instead, inequality – whether economic, social, or gender-based – increases vulnerability. This particularly impacts girls. Girls are powerful agents of change, yet their rights and their potential to combat the climate crisis are not being considered by governments in global climate strategies.

Unseen, Unsafe: The Underinvestment in Ending Violence Against Children in the Pacific and Timor-Leste

Violence against children is at endemic levels across Pacific island nations and Timor-Leste. Millions of children experience exceptionally high levels of physical, emotional and sexual violence, as well as neglect. For the vast majority of children, this violence is occurring in a place where they should feel safest: their homes.