Plan International To Focus On Needs, Rights Of Girls, CEO Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen Tells Devex

Devex: Q&A: Plan International’s CEO on a change of strategy
“Plan International, the international children’s rights NGO, is further specializing its focus to prioritize the needs and rights of girls. The specialization is seen as a way of working toward the Sustainable Development Goals, but the international development environment is also ripe for transformation, the organization’s Chief Executive Officer Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen told Devex. … In a recent conversation with Devex, Albrectsen, the former assistant-secretary general at the United Nations Population Fund, discussed how Plan is changing and what growing pains might come with it…” (Lieberman, 4/14).

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