Plan International is a non-profit organization that works to promote children's rights and equality in 68 countries worldwide. It works with over 58,000 communities with a population of over 56 million children, including 1 million individually sponsored children. In India, Plan works in 11 states across 80 districts and 5400 communities, reaching over 68,000 sponsored children and 9 lakh children under 18 years old. The document discusses Plan's strategy in India to use sports as a medium to promote child participation, health, education, and empowerment.

1. BUILDING BETTER
FUTURE FOR
CHILDREN through
Sports….The Plan Story
There’s a plan for every
child.
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2. Plan Worldwide
(Celebrating 75 Years of commitment towards children -2012)
• Plan works with children, families and communities in 68
countries across the world.
• Plan International works with more than 58,053 communities,
covering a population of 56.50 million children.
• 1 million individual-sponsored children worldwide
• Holds a consultative status in United Nations
Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
• Rights based organization
• Raising awareness of development issues
• Campaigning on behalf of children worldwide.
Children are at the heart of the everything that we do
Children are at the heart of the everything that we do
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3. COVERAGE
• 11 states
• 80 districts
• 15 Program Units
• 5400 communities
REACH
• 68,932 sponsored
children
• 29 lakh plus population
• 9 lakh plus children
below 18 years
There’s a plan for every child.
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4. COUNTRY STRATEGIC PLAN: 2011-2015
Protection from
Abuse and
Disaster Risk Exploitation Early Childhood
Reduction Development and
Quality Education
CHILD CENTERED
Adequate
COMMUNITY
Standards of Optimal Health
DEVELOPMENT
Living
Child Participation Drinking Water and
Clean Environment
Cross Cutting Components
1. Inclusion
2. Gender Equity and Engagement
3. Advocacy
There’s a plan for every child.
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5. Child Centred Community Development
With Plan’s Child Centred Community
Development approach, which is a rights-based
approach, children, families and communities
are active and leading participants in their own
development. It enhances their capacity and
opportunity to work together with others to
address structural causes and consequences
of child poverty at all levels.
Plan focuses on long-term sustainable positive
change rather than short-term interventions.
There’s a plan for every child.
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6. Learning from the field
• We have seen in our past intervention in other parts of
the country and world that good environment of sports in
the school affected positively in the retention of children
and student-teacher relationship.
• Sports can also be used to break Gender Stereotypes.
• Our experiment with children groups proves that sports
promotes equal participation and increase the decision
making skills among children and youth.
• Through Sports we are successful in popularizing good
health behavior among children/youth.
There’s a plan for every child.

7. Learning from the field
• Sports is an important medium through which positive
change in the behavior can be achieved.
• It is an age old tradition…thus it can also be used as
mass mobilization tool.
• There is always spontaneous participation of Children,
Youth as well as the whole community in any sports
activity.
• Sports can also be taken up as career and there is no
dearth of talented sports person to excel in
state/regional/national/international arena.
• What is required is the change in our attitude towards
sports.
There’s a plan for every child.

8. Way Ahead from here--
• Plan is working in 56 villages across three districts –
Hazaribag, West Singhbhum and Khunti in an long term
approach where we have already incorporated Sports as
a medium for child participation.
• We have organized Children Club in each TOLA of these
56 villages and supplied playing kit to each and every
villages. This will ensure a sports culture in the village
• We are on the process of developing Children Resource
Center in each villages-a physical space dedicated for
the children.
• We are also actively working on the development of
playing field in each of the targeted villages in
consultation with the Gram Panchayet.
There’s a plan for every child.

9. Way Ahead from here--
• We are at the final stage of initiating sports tournament in each of the
targeted districts where we are taking up football and hokey as the focused
sports. (this was finalized in discussion with the children groups)
• There will be two teams one boys and girls from each villages and there will
be inter-village competition among the targeted villages of each district.
• In the semi-final and final match we are planning to invite eminent sports
personalities of the state from SAI, TFA etc to select some talent who can
be linked to further training for their skill up-gradation.
• We are using sports as medium for both breaking gender stereotypes and
sports as a medium for future career in addition to sports as a medium of
organizing children groups.
• We are thankful to the Maidan Summit organizer who has given us (both
Plan and its network partners) the opportunity to understand the intricacies
of the approach.
• We assure you to take this momentum forward by collaborating with
Panchayat Yuva Krida Aur Khel Abhiyan (PYKKA).
There’s a plan for every child.

10. Immediate need
• There is an immediate requirement of establishing a
functional network of institution and individuals who are
willing to integrate sports as a medium to bring effective
social change in their regular operation.
• Plan will extend its full support in the establishment and
nurturing of this network.
• Plan is an ardent supporter of collaborative effort and it
will continue to do so in the arena of sports for
development.
There’s a plan for every child.

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