International plan

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International plan
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legal form international association (21 national organizations, in Germany: registered association )
founding 1937
founder John Langdon-Davies and Eric Muggeridge
Seat Woking , UK
main emphasis Children's charity
Action space worldwide
people Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen (CEO Plan International), Maike Röttger (Chairwoman of the Management Board, Germany)
sales 832,803,000 euros (2018)
Employees 8,500 (2019)
Website plan-international.org
Program and donor countries of Plan International (as of 2006)

Plan International is an international children's charity . The children's aid organization is active in over 70 countries, regardless of religion or politics (as of March 2017). As part of development cooperation, Plan International finances sustainable and child - oriented self-help projects mainly through sponsorships , but also through individual donations. The municipalities are directly involved in the planning and implementation of the projects. The organization is recognized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council as a private and independent organization and is on the advisory committee of non-governmental organizations for UNICEF .

history

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The association's roots lie in the Spanish Civil War . There the British journalist John Langdon-Davies experienced the hardship and misery of the refugee and orphaned children up close. In April 1937 he founded Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain in London to help these children on a sponsorship basis. The international children's aid organization Plan developed from this .

After World War II, Plan helped in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Greece and China. In 1952, Plan opened the German office in Munich. Until the early 1960s, thousands of German sponsored children were cared for. In 1956 the Children's Fund decided as the Foster Parents Plan to help needy girls and boys around the world. Work began in Vietnam in 1957, and two years later in Hong Kong.

Until 1973, all activities were still controlled from an office in New York. However, the many aid programs and the growing number of sponsors made the establishment of national plan offices necessary. Plan International's coordination office is located in Woking near London.

Project countries

Plan supports children, their families and communities in the following project countries with sponsorship contributions and individual donations:

Latin America

Asia

West Africa

East Africa

National Organizations

The 21 national organizations have the task of promoting the goals of Plan and using the donations to finance the programs and projects. Private individuals, companies and government institutions are addressed. The national organizations also aim to practice development education work in the donor country itself in order to draw attention to international connections, for example child poverty, and to the work of Plan.

Plan International Germany

Plan Germany office in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord

The Plan International Deutschland e. V., based in Hamburg , was founded in 1989 and supports projects in 52 countries worldwide. The German Central Institute for Social Issues has awarded Plan the DZI donation seal . The children's aid organization has received several awards as a transparent donation organization and in 2012 took first place twice in this area: in the transparency award of the auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers and in an analysis by the business magazine Capital . In 2011, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development awarded Plan International Germany the Walter Scheel Prize for special commitment to development cooperation . Plan International Germany is a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .

Worldwide, 1.2 million child sponsorships are supported, of which the German Plan office looked after 320,124 sponsorships as of June 30, 2016. Plan International Germany's income as of June 30, 2018 was 172.8 million euros.

The day-to-day operations are carried out by the management. The managing directors are Maike Röttger (chairwoman of the management board), Volker Pohl and Wolfgang Porschen . Plan International Germany also has two committees - the board of directors and the board of trustees as well as a presidential committee, which ensures appropriate monitoring of the board, including an examination and control of the use of the association's funds.

Board

The board consists of the following ten members:

Board of Trustees

Members of the Board of Trustees are:

Rudolf Stilcken is co-founder of the German Plan Association and was chairman of the board of trustees until March 2008

Federal President a. D. Walter Scheel was honorary chairman of the board of trustees.

Prominent supporters

Prominent personalities from entertainment, politics, sport and business are committed to Plan in Germany - including

International Switzerland plan

In 2006 the Swiss office was founded in Zurich. It is financed through donations as well as project and child sponsorships. Plan International Switzerland's focus countries are Burkina Faso, Mali, El Salvador, Haiti, Nepal and Vietnam.

Strategy and goal setting

Plan has set itself the goal that all children worldwide can develop and develop freely. The aim is to create a society in which human dignity and rights are respected. To this end, Plan works in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN).

Child-oriented community development

Plan works together with the children in care. This approach to child-centered community development aims to put children, their perspectives, needs and rights at the center of all efforts. The children have a say in this and, along with the adults, are involved in the planning and implementation of the projects.

The active and equal participation of all groups in the community in its development is seen as the key to child-oriented community development.

Sustainable development

The municipalities should integrate themselves into local, national and international structures in order to influence the design of their living environment and thus to escape poverty in the long term. Plan supports this process with development-related education and lobbying in the countries of the North and in the partner countries.

Sponsorship principle

The work of the organization is based on the support and development of entire communities, which should then benefit many children. Sums of money are not paid to individual sponsored children or their families. The child-oriented community development should be supported and strengthened by the concept of sponsorships, as this should promote intercultural exchange with individual children and families. The sponsorship contributions provide financial security for the long-term projects.

In addition, additional funds from one-time donations, inheritances and bequests as well as public funds support the implementation of further projects.

Focus on children's rights

Plan Germany implements the international strategic guidelines mainly in the areas of development education and advocacy for children's rights. Children's and human rights are the foundation of child-oriented community development.

In order to raise or raise awareness of the situation of girls around the world, Plan Germany launched a girls' campaign through an alliance with editors-in-chief of women's magazines. With the campaign Because I am a Girl , Plan in Germany has been campaigning for girls' rights worldwide since 2003. The campaign is under the patronage of Senta Berger and is supported by prominent Plan sponsors . In the international alliance at the UN, she achieved the recognition of the World Girls' Day on October 11th.

criticism

In connection with criticism according to which Plan sponsored girls were left to the violence of female genital cutting (genital mutilation), Plan International points out that, like other organizations in these countries, they are pursuing a goal-oriented “policy of enlightenment”. The organization is based on theses according to which a change in behavior can be achieved through extensive education, removing taboos from topics such as sexuality and genital mutilation, as well as a broad social discussion.

Plan International is criticized (in addition to WorldVision , Kindernothilfe and Childfund ) mainly by the TaskForce for effective prevention of genital mutilation , which initiated the sponsored girl campaign in 2009, supported by rapper and activist SisterFa , among others . Specifically, it is criticized that Plan International is not ready to include the renouncement of genital mutilation in its funding criteria and to demand from the recipient communities, as well as to integrate an integrity check of the children into the annual medical examinations. The world over said Claudia Ulferts of plan to "if it were so easy to work with pressure and prohibitions, we would do it - but it causes the opposite."

Volunteer work for Plan

In many cities in Germany people have come together to form action groups in order to get involved privately and voluntarily for Plan International. The first Plan Action Group was founded in Frankfurt in 1993, four years after Plan Germany was founded. Most of the plan action groups in Germany are mainly composed of sponsors, but non-sponsors are also involved in these groups. Most groups formulate the goals of making the plan known locally, providing ideal and financial support for certain plan projects and gaining sponsors. These goals are pursued through campaigns such as information stands, flea market stands, Christmas market sales or charity events. In January 2009 there were 142 action groups throughout Germany. Today, one voluntary action group member is represented in the general assembly of Plan Germany from each federal state.

Further support for the work of Plan comes from school classes and schools.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d story. plan-international.org, accessed October 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Directors' report and Combined Financial Statements for the year ended June 30, 2018. (pdf) Plan International, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ International association. plan-international.de, accessed on November 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ https://plan-international.org/where-we-work Where we work . Plan international, accessed on March 18, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Tom Buchanan: The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain: War, Loss and Memory - "My Country Right or Left: John Langdon-Davies and Catalonia" . Sussex Academic Press, 2007, ISBN 1-84519-127-7 , pp. 141-157 (English).
  6. ↑ Contact us / Headquater . In: Plan International . ( plan-international.org [accessed May 21, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Plan is active worldwide. plan.de, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  8. ^ Plan Germany eV: International Association | International plan. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Plan Germany eV: Children's Fund Plan: Children's aid for 70 years worldwide. Retrieved January 22, 2018 (German).
  10. ↑ Articles of Association  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.plan.de  
  11. ^ Initiative Transparent Civil Society ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 17, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transparency.de
  12. ^ Plan Germany eV: The current statement of accounts | International plan. Retrieved April 2, 2017 .
  13. ^ Plan Germany eV: The management | Plan International Germany. Retrieved April 2, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Committees. List of the board on the club website, accessed on February 18, 2019.
  15. ↑ https://plan.ch/de/geschichte-kinderhilfswerk-plan-international
  16. ↑ Projects. Plan International Switzerland, accessed on August 18, 2011 .
  17. ↑ Presentation of the criticized problem
  18. ↑ Clemens Vergin: Fear of the mutilation of the godchild. In: Die Welt, December 21, 2007
  19. ↑ World Vision: Comprehensive Strengthening of Girls' Rights - Respect the dignity of African families. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldvision.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 75 kB) Press release from September 16, 2009.
  20. ↑ Terre des femmes e. V .: Study on female genital mutilation (FGM = Female Genital Mutilation). ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frauenrechte.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Study on behalf of the European Parliament, October 2005.
  21. ↑ a b Christina Brüning: Disabled protégés . In: THE WORLD . September 18, 2009 ( welt.de [accessed June 28, 2020]).
  22. ↑ Plan International mocks donors, the public and abused sponsored children ›Taskforce FGM. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (German).
  23. ↑ Waris Dirie charges. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .