Commitment title:

Contribution to the reduction of unintended adolescent pregnancy

Commitment description:

By 2025, Plan International will contribute to the reduction of unintended adolescent pregnancy through consistent advocacy targeted at governments, donors, humanitarian and development actors, and community and religious leaders to ensure the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all. This will include:
• implementing multi-million, multi-year, gender-responsive, SRHR programmes in all regions in which we work, with particular focus on improving access to sexual and reproductive health information and services and protection from violence. Our programmes will work to challenge stigma related to adolescent sexuality, and target norms that control female sexuality;
• advocating for governments to ensure that comprehensive sexuality education and adolescent-responsive sexual and reproductive health services are ensured for all, and influencing key stakeholders to change harmful policies and practices preventing girls who are pregnant and mothers from enjoying their right to education
• advocating for girls aged 10-14 years to be recognised to be of reproductive age within the World Health Organisation definition and calling for governments and data bodies to improve disaggregated data collection so that targeted programmes and services can be provided to meet the needs of this younger demographic.

Modes of engagement:
  • Policy and guidance
    Governments take action to reduce unintended adolescent pregnancy by ensuring CSE and access to adolescent-responsive SRH services for all children, adolescents and young people, in particular 10-14 year old girls.
  • Programmatic action
    Implementing multi-million, multi-year SRHR programmes in all regions in which we work, with particular focus on improving access to sexual and reproductive health information and services and protection from violence.
Commitment to be actioned in: global
Submitted from: global
Submitted by
Plan International
Thematic area
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)
Commitment category

(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and  gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.