Plan International Sweden framework support 2015-2018, 2018-2019

Outcome 1 - Children and youth have knowledge of their rights to protection against violence andhow to claim them From Plan Sweden's final report: "All countries have reported that children have increased their knowledge on their right to be free from violence as a result of the programmes. Children and youth have also gained capacities to advocate for violence-free environments at home, in communities and at schools". Outcome 2 - Parents and care-givers have knowledge and skills to implement positive non-violencediscipline methods with their children From Plan Sweden's final report: "Under this outcome, 70% of countries reported reaching targets while 15% reached partial targets and 15% reported that targets were not reached. Strategies under this outcome aim to change attitudes and behaviours; which takes time, and can therefore be difficult to measure". Outcome 3 - Communities are actively involved in preventing violence against children as well asreferring cases as needed to the formal child protection system From Plan Sweden's final report: "Under this outcome, over 90% of countries have reported to have reached targets. At the portfolio level, there is evidence that community members have been involved in referrals and actions to prevent and respond to violence, through community dialogues, community mobilisation, community-led initiatives as well as community-based child protection mechanisms (CBCPMs)". Outcome 4 - CSOs are supporting children, families, and communities to prevent violence againstchildren From Plan Sweden's final report: "At the portfolio level, 100% of countries have reported that they have reached targets under this outcome. CSOs, including youth led organisations, played important roles in child protection system strengthening, given the weakness of government child protection services in most target countries.CSOs delivered a range of services and work directly with families and communities as well as service providers to increase access and quality of existing services. In all countries, the strengthening of civil society has taken place on a multitude of levels - community, regional and national - and in a number of ways: awareness raising, referrals and service provision, policy advocacy and reform, and being an agenda setter for improved child protection systems. Stronger collaboration between CSOs has led to collective advocacy for increased state accountability for child protection at different levels across the programme portfolio". Outcome 5 - Effective child protection systems are put in place with strong coordination among allinvolved actors From Plan Sweden's final report: "Effective child protection systems are dependent on a competent workforce, effective coordination and access to quality services. At a portfolio level, around 90% of countries have indicated that they reached the set targets under this outcome". Outcome 6 - Legislation and policies are in place to protect children against violence and necessarybudget provisions have been to support effective child protection systems From Plan Sweden's final report: "On portfolio level 88% of countries have reported that they have reached targets under this result. Plan International and CSO partners have been a part of advocacy efforts towards government, as well as providing technical support for the drafting of policies and legislation. Further, in many countries the child protection sector is often the most underfunded sector, meaning that it is understaffed and there is a lack of services and interventions, especially in remote and rural areas. Programmes have therefore included advocacy efforts to ensure increased budget allocations at the local and national levels". Sida's comments on Plans reporting against the outcomes The six above outcome areas are large and aspirational in nature and the programmes that falls under these 6 outcomes are implemented in 21 countries with different levels of capacity (incl. technical and operational) and resources and in contextual environments that differ to a large degree. These factors should be taken into account when reviewing the results reported by Plan. It is Sidas impression based on the collaboration with Plan Sweden, that the organisation has set a high level of ambition in this programme from the start and that the capacity on Results-Based Management (RBM) has not been as strong as needed. The formulation of the six outcomes illustrates this challenge.  

The overall goal of Plan International Swedens programme during the period 1 January 2015 - 30 June 2019 was: "Together with civil society organisations, children and youth claim their rights from duty bearers, who actively commit to respect, protect and fulfil these rights". The programme has been implemented through 23 different programs in 21 countries together with 150 local CSO's in Africa, Asia and in Latinamerica. The four focus areas for the entire programme: - Childrens and young people's right to protection (Art 19 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) - Young people's right to sexual and reproductive health - Child and youth rights governance and participation - Children's rights in disaster risk reduction and resilience