Concern Worldwide
- A Advocate
- I Implementer
- R Researcher
Description
Founded in 1968, Concern Worldwide is an international, non-governmental humanitarian organization dedicated to reducing extreme poverty in 23 countries. Concern targets the root causes of extreme poverty through programs in health and nutrition, education, livelihoods, emergencies, climate and environment and gender equality.
Concern’s work in education aims to improve the lives of extremely poor and vulnerable children in a sustainable way by increasing access to quality primary education and supporting child well-being. In addition to supporting boys, girls, teachers, caregivers and communities in both formal and non-formal settings, our programmes also target out of school adolescents to develop the basic skills they need to transition back to formal learning where appropriate.
Concern works in partnership with Ministries of Education and local NGOs, to influence lasting change in the education system at national, district and school levels. Education programs have a holistic approach and focus on three objectives:
- Improving access to education: An emphasis is placed on reaching those who have been excluded from education opportunities, such as girls, children living in slums or rural areas, working children, children belonging to minority groups, children affected by HIV and AIDS, and children with disabilities.
- Improving quality of education: In order for children to gain the most from their education, our programs focus on ensuring children are able to develop foundational literacy and numeracy skills specifically in the early grades so that in the future they will be able to continue to access learning. Quality of education requires a focus on supporting teachers and the education system through training, coaching and continuous teacher professional development, as well as ensuring teachers and children have access to learning materials.
- Improving wellbeing: School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV) has increasingly emerged as a barrier to education. SRGBV prevention and response mechanisms are embedded within programs. In addition, Concern provides non-specialized psychosocial support, as well as life skills and adolescent sexual reproductive health support.
Primary Functions
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Program/Project Implementation
- Research - other
- Research - policy analysis
- Research - project evaluation
Secondary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
Other
- Other
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- School facilities
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
- Teacher training
Skills
- Literacy
- Numeracy
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Climate change
- Community sensitization
- COVID-19 Response
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Empowerment
- Food/water security
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Mentorship
- Nutrition
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
- WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
Funders and partners Back to Top
Current girls’ education funders
Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
Headquarters location(s)
- Dublin, , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Office location(s)
- Republic of Korea
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- United States of America
Contacts
Locations of current girls’ education work
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Burundi
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Haiti
- Iraq
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Niger
- Pakistan
- Rwanda
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Türkiye
Projects Back to Top
Project/Program
Safe Learning Model
Project/Program
CHANGE: Improving Access to Education in Ethiopia for Most Marginalized Girls Project
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Expanding Political Support for Abortion Access and Rights in Sierra Leone
Project/Program
Education and skills program (Inclusive education, girls' education and TVET)
Project/Program
School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV)
Project/Program
Every Adolescent Girl Empowered and Resilient (EAGER)
Project/Program
Improving Literacy with EGRA
Project/Program
Apatseni Mwayi Atsikana Aphunzire (AMAA)