Graduate Women International (GWI)

  • I Implementer

Description

Graduate Women International (GWI) advocates for women’s rights, equality and empowerment through access to quality secondary and tertiary education, and training up to the highest levels. Our vision is 100% of girls and women in the world achieving education beyond primary school. We have national affiliates in 60 countries and individual members in more than 40 others. Join our international advocacy and grant programmes and learn how you can become part of an international network of women working for change.

Primary Functions

  • Awareness Raising/Advocacy
  • Funding
  • Program/Project Implementation

Secondary Functions

  • Research - policy analysis
  • Research - project evaluation

Geographic Scope

  • Global / regional

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Education topics addressed

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other skills

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

Quality

  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • STEM

Cross-cutting topics addressed

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sports
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

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Current girls' education partners

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Website

Graduate Women International (GWI)

Headquarters location(s)

  • Geneva, Gelderland, Switzerland

Office location(s)

  • N/A

Contacts

Stacy Dry Lara
gwi@graduatewomen.org
Graduate Women International (GWI)

Locations of current girls’ education work

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

  • Canada
  • France
  • Ghana
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Nepal
  • Nigeria
  • Sierra Leone
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Uganda

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