our anti-racism
principles

PLAN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-RACISM VISION AND PRINCIPLES

Our vision is for an organisation where all individuals in all their diversity, including their racial and ethnic identity, feels safe, respected, included and valued.

Racism is a human rights violation and has no place in our organisation. Plan International is committed to rooting out structural racism, inequities, systemic oppression and all other forms of discrimination within our work. We know we have a long journey ahead of us to achieve this, but we are dedicated to meaningfully advancing racial justice within Plan International and throughout our sector. We will not stop until people in all their diversity feel safe, respected, included, and valued in their engagement with us and with others.

PRINCIPLES

• We are committed to creating an anti-racist and anti-discriminatory culture. We have zero tolerance to inaction on reports of racism and any form of discriminatory behaviour.
  
  
• We are committed, visible, and active in making change happen, both as individuals (particularly leaders) and as part of Plan International. We recognize this requires self-reflection on our thoughts, behaviours and attitudes, and championing of diversity and inclusion through understanding of our power, privilege and bias.
  
  
• We must mainstream Anti-Racism and Racial Justice in the organisation’s relationships, workstreams, interventions, transformation and operational processes and procedures.
  
  
• We must understand and embrace what intersectionality means and adopt an intersectional approach to addressing racism and discrimination. We will work on driving positive change within the organisation to ensure that people in all their diversity feel safe, respected, included and valued in their engagement with us.
  
  
• We must work collaboratively across the Plan International network, committing to an action plan that ensures that our relationships, interventions, approaches and practices are built upon our commitment to root out structural racism, inequities, systemic oppression and all other forms of discrimination within our work.
  
  
• We must redistribute power by reforming our governance, leadership, partnership, human resources, communications, and resource mobilisation structures, processes and strategies.
  
  
• We must create space, time and systems to encourage open discussions on racism, discrimination and injustices. We will listen to each other, share our experiences, and learn from one another. We will seek to unlearn and address what does not serve our mission interpersonally, institutionally and within the sector.
  
  
• We must be accountable to our staff by transparently, honestly and periodically sharing the progress we have made on upholding our Anti-Racism commitments and the lessons we have learned working towards sustainable organisational and cultural change.
  
  
• We must be transparent and honest in our communications on our positions, efforts, progress and learnings on Anti-Racism, discrimination and justice. We will be vocal and intentional in driving positive change within the sector.