Girl Effect

  • A Advocate
  • F Funder
  • I Implementer
  • N Network
  • R Researcher

Description

Girl Effect (GE) is an international non-profit that builds media that girls want, trust, and need. From chat-bots to chat shows and TV dramas to tech, our content is reaching millions of girls in Africa and Asia to help girls make better choices and changes in their lives, igniting their confidence to act differently at a time that can define their future. GE create safe spaces for girls, sharing facts, and answering questions about health, nutrition, education, relationships and so much more and we use innovative technology so we can reach girls and those around her, at scale. 

Primary Functions

  • Awareness Raising/Advocacy
  • Program/Project Implementation
  • Research - project evaluation

Secondary Functions

  • Capacity building/Technical assistance
  • Research - other

Geographic Scope

  • Global / regional

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Education topics addressed

Other

  • Early childhood development
  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence

Cross-cutting topics addressed

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Digital literacy
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Migration
  • Nutrition
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Funders and partners Back to Top

Current girls’ education funders

Current girls' education partners

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Website

Girl Effect

Headquarters location(s)

  • London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Office location(s)

  • Ethiopia
  • India
  • Malawi
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
  • United Republic of Tanzania

Contacts

Liya Haile
Ethiopia Country Lead
liya.haile@girleffect.org
Girl Effect

Locations of current girls’ education work

Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs

  • Ethiopia
  • India
  • Malawi
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
  • United Republic of Tanzania

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