Still We Dream
Plan InternationalWhat is it?
This year’s State of the World’s Girls Report focuses on the experiences of young people whose lives are dominated by conflict.
This research involved a large-scale survey of 9,995 participants from ten countries – Cameroon, Colombia, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Ukraine, the Philippines and one country that is unable to be named because of political and operational sensitivities. A further 104 from Ethiopia, Cameroon, Colombia and the Philippines took part in in-depth interviews.
HIGHLIGHTS
In 2024, nearly 300 million people will need humanitarian support.
Conflict is one of the major drivers of this need and the impact on civilians – especially on children and young people – is devastating.
They are recruited into armed groups, abducted, attacked in schools and hospitals, subjected to sexual violence and out of reach of humanitarian aid.
Within all this devastation, as our research emphasises, conflict is felt differently by girls and boys, by young women and young men.