Plan International
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Headquarters Location: Warwick, RI
Founded: 1937
Mission: Plan International USA is part of a global organization that works side-by-side with communities in 50 developing countries to end the cycle of poverty for children. Plan develops solutions community by community to ensure long-term sustainability. Our level of community engagement, long-term outlook and constant focus on the needs and priorities of children is unique among international development organizations. Our solutions are designed up-front to be owned by the community for generations to come and range from clean water and healthcare programs to education projects and child protection initiatives.
Tags:
water, drinking water, waste management, point-of-use water treatment, hygiene, sanitation, community management, sustainability, hygiene education, latrines, education, projects
This organization has offices located worldwide. As the majority of our users are based in the U.S., the donation link is connected to the U.S. office.
This organization has offices located worldwide. As the majority of our users are based in the U.S., the donation link is connected to the U.S. office.
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Leadership
Tessie San Martin.
Tessie San Martin, PhD, MPA is the CEO of Plan USA. Previously, Dr. San Martin was the Group Vice President for International at Abt Associates Inc. Dr. San Martin oversaw all the technical assistance, policy research and strategic business consulting provided by Abt Associates to its clients overseas. The International Line of Business main clientele includes bilateral development agencies, such…
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Financial Data for US Office
Overhead Ratio:
22.79%
Total Revenue:
$63,605,172
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Contact Info
Website:
E-Mail:
DonorRelations AT planusa.org
Phone:
800-556-7918
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Address:
155 Plan Way
Warwick, RI 2886, USA
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Story:
Plan works with communities to improve access to safe drinking water and to raise awareness of the importance of waste management.
Access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation is necessary for health, income generation, poverty alleviation, gender equality, human rights and personal dignity. Yet, over one billion people in the developing world live without access to safe drinking water, 2.6 billion people live without adequate sanitation, and 4 billion live in conditions where their wastewater is discharged untreated into local water bodies.
In line with reaching the targeted Millenium Development Goal (countries have pledged to halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015), each of Plan’s country programs has implemented water and sanitation programs in urban and rural areas:
Improvement of water and sanitation access in urban & rural populations
Point-of-use water treatment
Behavior change and hygiene promotion
Community-Led Total Sanitation
In the year ending June 2008, Plan invested approximately US$43 million in the construction or upgrade of 20,443 water services/points in 2,393 communities and of 48,080 latrines in 3,216 communities around the world.
Expert Reviews of Plan International
Evidence of Impact Summary:
Plan International is extremely active in Community-Led Total Sanitation and have been successful in the sanitation space.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Plan International attracts good calibre staff and has a good management structure. They have done excellent work on Community-Led Total Sanitation to reduce open defaecation, and are working on writing manuals and disseminating their knowledge to other organizations working in the WASH sector.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Plan International can share their information with other member organizations more.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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Though water is not their only area of interest, their work in water and sanitation sector is very significant. They have very broad geographical coverage. | ||
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Plan has made high impact through the promotion of CLTS, and construction of water and sanitation facilities. | ||
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Plan International is extremely active in Community-Led Total Sanitation at scale. | ||
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They have an excellent leadership particularly in improving approaches to sanitation programming. | ||
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Professional staff and good resource mobilization skills | ||
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Plan attracts good caliber respected sector professionals to its senior program posts. It gives autonomy to its regional and country offices to plan their programs. | ||
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Leadership in multiple countries, developing low-cost sanitation options manuals and working with WASH sector coordination committees to bring new low and no-subsidy approaches to rural sanitation | ||
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They do an excellent work on CLTS (sanitation) to reduce open defecation. Furthermore PLAN has also put focus on methodology development and knowledge sharing of their experiences. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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Plan's water and sanitation interventions in many places remain opportunistic and vehicles to create and strengthen local organizations, which are aspired to be Plan partners. This can lead to a real democratic deficit around their interventions. Their corporate identity has become stronger at the expense of flexible interventions at the local level. | ||
Leadership
Tessie San Martin
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer
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