Plan international regards the use of monitoring and evaluation results and evidence from research as key to underpinning its core commitments to gender equality, human rights, accountability, and working in partnership and in all contexts.  Plan International’s M&E work aims to demonstrate how Plan International understands and measures quality across all its programme and influence work. It is allows Plan International to assess and report on progress both at the project level and the combined progress towards global ambitions and objectives; and contribute to global level understanding of Plan International’s contribution to change in children’s and girls’ lives, specifically in the context of the SDGs.