The State of the World's Girls Technical Report 2024
Plan International published the first State of the World’s Girls Report in 2007. The 2024 report, (Still we dream: Girls and young people living through conflict), studies the experiences of girls, boys, young women and young men, whose lives are dominated by conflict. The aim was to understand how the experiences of violence, educational disruption, livelihood loss, and emotional distress, brought on by conflict, vary for girls and young women, boys and young men, and how this will affect their lives in the future.
This survey included participants from ten countries – Cameroon, Colombia, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Ukraine, the Philippines and one un-named country (due to political and operational sensitivities). A further 104 participants from Ethiopia, Cameroon, Colombia and the Philippines took part in in-depth interviews.
Key findings
- Young people reported high levels of emotional distress including sleep disturbances (55%) and constant worrying (54%).
- 27% of girls and young women reported sexual and gender-based violence as a constant risk of everyday life.
- 38% of survey respondents reported feeling unsafe or very unsafe with girls and young women (39%) feeling less safe than boys and young men (36%).