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There’s a plan for every child. 1 BUILDING BETTER FUTURE FOR CHILDREN through Sports….The Plan Story

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BUILDING BETTER

FUTURE FOR

CHILDREN through

Sports….The Plan Story

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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.

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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

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Child Participation

CHILD CENTERED COMMUNITY

DEVELOPMENT

Protection from Abuse and

Exploitation Early Childhood Development and Quality Education

Disaster Risk Reduction

Adequate Standards of

Living

1. Inclusion2. Gender Equity and Engagement3. Advocacy

Cross Cutting Components

COUNTRY STRATEGIC PLAN: 2011-2015

Optimal Health

Drinking Water and Clean Environment

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Thank You

We are not sources of

problems, we are the

resources that are needed to solve them

We are not expenses, we are

investments!

You call us the future but we are

the present!

THANK YOU!