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Implementation Research: Adolescent Girls’ Rights and Resilience. Plan International’s Girls Get Equal Programme 2025 - 2029
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## Introduction
Plan International is an independent, politically neutral, and non-religious development and humanitarian organisation. Guided by a rights-based and evidence-informed approach, Plan International works with children, young people, civil society partners, academic institutions, and other relevant stakeholders, applying a gender transformative approach to advance gender equality and ensure the rights, inclusion, and meaningful participation of children and young people in all their diversity. The organisation implements long-term development and humanitarian programmes in more than fifty countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, while mobilising public and institutional support in over twenty countries. Founded in 1937, Plan International combines global reach with locally grounded, research-informed practice focused on learning, accountability, and addressing structural inequalities.
Plan International Norway holds a five-year framework agreement with Norad (2025–2029), valued at NOK 255 million, supporting the programme *Girls Get Equal: Realising Rights and Building Resilience* (GGE). GGE is implemented in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger and Tanzania targeting young people - especially adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 10-24 - as well as their families, communities, and relevant institutions. The programme aims to realise the rights, empowerment, and resilience of AGYW and young people by addressing structural drivers of child, early and forced marriage and unions (CEFMU), early and unintended pregnancies, and vulnerability to climate- and conflict-related shocks, through a rights-based, gender transformative, youth-centred, and evidence-informed approach. It is structured around four integrated outcome areas:
1. Access to and completion of inclusive, climate-smart, quality education
2. Economic empowerment of adolescents and youth, especially girls, and their households
3. Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR): adolescents and youth, especially girls, make informed SRHR decisions, are protected from harmful practices and gender-based violence, and access relevant, age- and gender-responsive services
4. Civil society and youth engagement: civil society, particularly youth- and women-led organisations, is strengthened
The programme aims to benefit approximately 155,000 children, adolescents, and youth, including around 90,000 girls and young women, in collaboration with four hundred formal and informal civil society organisations. Inclusion is mainstreamed across all components, with targeted measures to ensure the meaningful participation of children and youth with disabilities and other marginalised groups.
Together with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Plan International Norway has identified specific learning, and evidence needs that exist within the GGE program. To address these needs, Plan International Norway seeks to commission research across three of the four programme components. This commission is framed as implementation research, focused on understanding how, for whom, and under what conditions GGE programme interventions work. The research prioritises delivery, contextual factors, and the programme's contribution to change, and is not designed to measure results against a baseline. Standard evaluation criteria such as relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency are included where relevant to structure the research objectives, as outlined in Section 3. Findings will inform adaptive management during implementation and contribute to the evidence base for future programme design.
## Objective and scope
The following are the desired objectives of the research activities.
**a) objectives**
- **Impact contribution (Impact):**
To generate evidence on the contribution of selected programme components to intended changes in empowerment, rights realisation, and resilience, addressing identified evidence gaps and testing innovative approaches where feasible. This is not intended to be addressed through experimental methods such as RCT (as per time and budget constraints).
- **Relevance & Coherence:**
To assess the relevance and coherence of selected programme components in relation to the needs and rights of adolescent girls and young people, and their alignment with the programme’s Theory of Change, country contexts, and relevant policy and sector frameworks.
- **Effectiveness & Quality:**
To assess the quality, effectiveness, and implementation performance of selected interventions and identifying factors that enable or constrain successful delivery.
- **Efficiency:**
To assess whether selected programme approaches are implemented in a cost‑effective manner and to inform prioritisation of interventions with potential for scale and transferability.
- **Learning, Adaptation, and Use:**
To generate actionable findings that support adaptive programme management, ensuring evidence is actively
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