Contribution to the reduction of unintended adolescent pregnancy

By 2025, Plan International will contribute to the reduction of unintended adolescent pregnancy through consistent advocacy targeted at governments, donors, humanitarian and development actors, and community and religious leaders to ensure the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all. This will include:
• implementing multi-million, multi-year, gender-responsive, SRHR programmes in all regions in which we work, with particular focus on improving access to sexual and reproductive health information and services and protection from violence. Our programmes will work to challenge stigma related to adolescent sexuality, and target norms that control female sexuality;
• advocating for governments to ensure that comprehensive sexuality education and adolescent-responsive sexual and reproductive health services are ensured for all, and influencing key stakeholders to change harmful policies and practices preventing girls who are pregnant and mothers from enjoying their right to education
• advocating for girls aged 10-14 years to be recognised to be of reproductive age within the World Health Organisation definition and calling for governments and data bodies to improve disaggregated data collection so that targeted programmes and services can be provided to meet the needs of this younger demographic.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
  Governments take action to reduce unintended adolescent pregnancy by ensuring CSE and access to adolescent-responsive SRH services for all children, adolescents and young people, in particular 10-14 year old girls.
• Programmatic action
  Implementing multi-million, multi-year SRHR programmes in all regions in which we work, with particular focus on improving access to sexual and reproductive health information and services and protection from violence.