2023 Plan International Canada Annual Report Donor Digest

With your support, girls like Natsumi are making

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SPECIAL DONOR DIGEST

Until we are all equal

Thank You! D oom and gloom. It’s easy to be swept up in the news about the latest crisis. But while the global landscape presents ongoing complexities, it also brings opportunities for innovation and positive change – and you’re a significant driver of that meaningful change. Last May we had the opportunity to join the board on a trip to Ghana to witness how the work you support is experienced by participants. It felt like every young person we encountered was, in their own way, an activist, pushing to secure their family’s future or make a change in their community. One moment that stood out was when a young man confidently spoke to a roomful of delegates and youth activists. He fielded questions effortlessly, never breaking a sweat. The topic: the need for girls to have access to menstrual supplies. It was a dramatic reminder that getting boys and men involved in creating and benefiting from a world where girls are equal is a game changer. In this special Annual Report digest, we’ve highlighted some of the life-changing projects you have supported. For a more in-depth read, we encourage you to click the link below. We are privileged to have your support, and together we won’t stop, until we are all equal.

The collective impact of Plan International’s 1,610 active projects in 83 countries last year

Plan International GLOBAL

Education 10.5 million

41.6 million children, including 22.2 million girls, were reached by Plan International’s work. Health 30 million children and adults were reached by our sexual and reproductive health and rights work. Humanitarian Response 22.4 million children and adults, including 5.2 million girls, were helped through our work with communities experiencing crises. Protection From Violence 13.8 million children and adults were reached through gender-sensitive child-protection programs.

children and adults received inclusive quality education. Economic Empowerment 3.9 million children and adults gained skills and had opportunities for youth employment and entrepreneurship. Child Sponsorship 1 million s ponsors supported 1.1 million children in 15,670 communities around the world.

Hon. Rona Ambrose Board Chair Plan International Canada

Lindsay Glassco President & CEO Plan International Canada

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Darline, who is from Bolivia, is one of the 147,110 children who were sponsored by 108,760 sponsors in Canada last year.

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Health

Humanitarian Response & Resilience 951,490 people were reached by 60 projects with $50.5 million invested. 245,200 metric tons of food were distributed to fight hunger. 320,730 children and adults accessed life-saving or critical services and facilities in a humanitarian context.

Education

Youth Leadership & Economic Empowerment 7,050 people were reached by eight projects with $22.6 million invested. 15,980 youths and adults participated in savings groups or other microfinance programs. 37,040 adolescents and adults were trained in financial literacy and entrepreneurship. 500 training graduates in Ghana formally registered their businesses.

Protection From Violence 272,360 people were reached by four projects with $16.1 million invested. 156,870 adults received training and info on how to prevent and respond to violence, including gender- based violence. 1,950 child-protection personnel were trained. 9,000 marriages were prevented for girls under the age of 15 in Ethiopia.

Our program expenditures

7,195,720 people were reached by 39 projects with $111.9 million invested. 354,790 children, adolescents and adults accessed improved health services. 106,770 people received SRHR* education with a focus on gender equality. 6,780 lives of children under age five were saved after 3.3 million mosquito nets were distributed, preventing malaria.

1,059,090 people were reached by 21 projects with $39.5 million invested. 343,590 young people received improved education or vocational training. 4,890 girls in Burkina Faso each received $111 in financial support to continue their education. 460 women in Sierra Leone are working as teachers after completing our training program.

46.5%

HEALTH

21%

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE & RESILIENCE

498,200 children and adults received emergency cash, vouchers and food.

16.4%

EDUCATION

9.4%

YOUTH LEADERSHIP & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

6.7%

Results and reach listed are for projects in fiscal year 2023 (July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023) with available data. Some projects are still in early stages and do not yet have measurable results to report or are in close-out phase. See the full Annual Report for more details. * SRHR: sexual and reproductive health and rights

PROTECTION FROM VIOLENCE

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Wave Makers Discover some of the sustainable impact you helped achieve this year.

> HEALTH Half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health services, often due to poverty. For women, children and minorities, the barriers to health are even greater. Thank you for standing with these communities to advance everyone’s right to health, including Natsumi’s . In her community in the Amazon region of Peru, one in five girls is pregnant. Natsumi became a peer-to-peer educator in our $12.6 million We Decide project. Here’s the impact you helped:

> HUMANITARIAN RELIEF & RESILIENCE Crises, whether from conflict or a natural disaster, displace families like Loko’s , strain resources and expose vulnerable populations to even more suffering. With your support, we strive to offer hope and assistance, particularly for children and girls.

> EDUCATION More than 250 million children and young adults are missing out on education – that’s a quarter of a billion dreams put on hold. With your partnership, we’re getting children back in class. In Nigeria, an estimated 18.5 million children aren’t in school, and more than half of them are girls. Salma is beating those odds: The 11-year-old lost her hearing as a child and was out of school, but she participated in our $10.4 million Education in Crisis project and now dreams of becoming a teacher.

> YOUTH LEADERSHIP & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT Together, we’re working with young people in Canada and around the world on projects that advance equality for girls and children’s rights. We have entrepreneurship, employment and financial-inclusion programs in more than 25 countries. Ayisha participated in a job-training program in Ghana and broke free from cultural sterotypes to launch her own tile-laying business.

> PROTECTION FROM VIOLENCE Last year, a staggering 1.7 billion children endured emotional, physical and sexual violence. One profound challenge is child, early and forced marriage, with a shocking 12 million girls every year becoming brides before age 18. Useaking is a mentor in our $7.6 million Lifting Healthy, Empowered and Protected Girls and Women (LEAP) project in Bangladesh. As a LEAP mentor, Useaking helps adolescents advocate for their sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Ethiopia has been facing its worst drought in 40 years. Loko’s family lost 69 cows — and, with that, their livelihood. We provided cash transfers (CAD$110) to 2,500 families like Loko’s.

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The rate of teen girls becoming pregnant dropped by 21 percentage points.

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Financials

Revenue Where did our support come from?

Program Expenditures What areas of work did this funding support? 46.5% Health

1% Investments & other income

10.1% Gifts in kind

6.7% Protection From Violence $16.2 million

14.2% Contributions, gifts & bequests

9.4% Youth Leadership and Economic Empowerment $22.6 million

$111.9 million

53.4% Government & other institutional grants

21% Humanitarian Response and Resilience $50.5 million 16.4% Education $39.4 million

21.3% Child Sponsorship

REVENUE INCREASE: We received $289 million in support in fiscal year 2023, up from $274 million in fiscal year 2022.

Expenditures What percentage of

82.9% Program expenditures

83 cents of every dollar went toward programming for children and their communities worldwide. We focused on improving education, health, protection from violence, humanitarian response and resilience, and youth leadership and economic empowerment. This also includes Canadian-based youth and advocacy programs.

17 cents of every dollar went toward fundraising and operations to ensure that our programs are run efficiently and effectively. These funds go toward marketing, developing and administrating our program-related services and fundraising initiatives. We also invest in rigorous child-safeguarding- and risk-management-protocols training.

Total FY23 expenditures: $290 million

donations went to Plan International Canada programs?

Our fiscal year ran from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023. This number includes the purchase and amortization of capital or intangible assets.

6.5% Operations

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10.6% Fundraising

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Team Girl Plan International is the global leader in championing equality for girls.

WHY GIRLS? We know that the most

powerful way to increase the rights of all children and create healthier, more resilient and just communities is to champion girls’ equality. You know it too!

This is the next generation of determined optimists your gifts support.

Like you, we also believe in the power of girls Plan International places a specific

focus on the challenges and rights of girls and young women, because we recognize the distinct barriers they face. Plan strives to adopt gender-transformative approaches, working with girls and women as well as boys and men to promote positive changes in gender norms and power relations.

When girls thrive in an equal world,

we are all stronger for it. Girls are at the heart of our global five-year strategy, All Girls Standing Strong (AGSS), which launched in 2023. Plan International wants to help 200 million girls improve their lives by 2027. Plan International Canada’s AGSS goal is to reach 30 million children, 15 million of them girls. Thanks for joining us in achieving that goal.

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From Hunger to Hope Your support for the Integrated School Feeding Program keeps children in school in Sierra Leone.

Availa (left) is a long-time sponsorship volunteer. Gabby (above) launched her chicken business with support from Plan Canada’s Gifts of Hope program.

magine waking up hungry. Imagine going to bed hungry. Imagine this happening every hour, every day, with no end in sight. According to the World Food Programme, this is a reality for 783 million people around the globe. And 45 million children under the age of five are dangerously malnourished. Unlike many other crises, hunger isn’t isolated to one country, one region or even one continent. It is widespread, from Sudan to Haiti to Myanmar, and it’s getting worse. “But hunger is a solvable problem,” says Dr. Unni Krishnan, global humanitarian director at Plan International. “The world is just not doing enough about it.” Here’s how you’re helping tackle hunger We launched an ambitious campaign to fund our school-meals programs in Sierra Leone, one of the highest-rated countries in the world for poverty, where food insecurity is growing. School meals not only ensure that girls have food but also encourage families to keep girls in the classroom – because parents know

This year, 299,630 children across 1,340 schools were fed over 31 million meals. they will be fed at school. Canadian supporters like you generously donated $601,600 in response to this call to action. “This program isn’t just about

The Plan Effect Your support for sponsorship creates a ripple effect of progress.

T he heart of our sponsorship program is the one-to-one connection that sponsors have with children. This support also leads to significant community-wide impact, and we call this the “ Plan Effect .” “The trusting relationships we have with sponsorship staff, volunteers and community members attract additional funding from local governments and organizations as well as global partners,” explains Hayley Riolo, director of sponsorship at Plan International Canada. This means there is additional sustainable, life-changing programming for more children and communities. It’s a strategic approach that is unique to Plan International, and its impact has been tried and tested and is exponential.

The Plan Effect in action One of the key learnings at the close of our six-year Achieving Reproductive Rights in Bolivian Adolescents (ARRIBA) project in Bolivia was that teens and young pregnant women were more willing to participate in the Government of Canada–supported project because they already knew about the sponsorship programs in their communities. ARRIBA was tackling sensitive issues related to teen pregnancy, sexual and reproductive health and rights and child, early and forced marriage. Without that built-in trust, we would not have been able to reach as many women and teens and help them improve their futures.

food,” says Andrew Iraguha, team leader for the Integrated

School Feeding program with Plan International in Sierra Leone. “It’s about giving children the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty through education. Their health is improving. There is excitement now from having food every day.”

Click to read more about this $11.2 million project.

Some students who receive lunch through Plan’s Integrated School Feeding Program in Sierra Leone

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Natsumi walks her little brothers to school and helps them with their studies. Her goal is for them to grow up believing in equality for girls.

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