World Education, Inc.
- I Implementer
Description
World Education, Inc. (WEI) is a U.S. non-profit organization established in 1951 that is dedicated to improving the lives of the poor through education, social, and economic development programs. WEI reaches well over a million children and adults in over 20 countries. WEI has been a leader in promoting innovative formal and non-formal education programs. In collaboration with local, national and international partners, WEI designs and implements capacity building initiatives in sectors including formal, non-formal and vocational education; adult education; second language acquisition; early grade reading; school governance; youth development; and community and civil society development. WEI is a leader in building the skills, talents, and resources of local groups and government ministries so they can accomplish their missions. Building local capacity and fostering self-reliance through a “trainer of trainers” approach are central to both our overseas and domestic programs. In its role as catalyst, WEI strives to promote autonomy both by strengthening government capacity and empowering people to plan and implement their own programs for social and economic change. The Bantwana Initiative of World Education (WEI/B) improves the wellbeing of vulnerable children and their caregivers and families affected by HIV and AIDS and poverty—with particular focus on improving development outcomes for vulnerable adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). WEI/B has successfully developed, piloted, assessed, and refined innovative and effective models that mitigate the effects of HIV and poverty amongst vulnerable children, youth and their families through delivery of health (including HIV and ASRH), child protection (including GBV and VAC), economic strengthening, and education services that have been adopted by national governments and attracted additional funding for scale up across East and Southern Africa.
Primary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Program/Project Implementation
Secondary Functions
- Other
- Policy Development/Implementation
- Research - project evaluation
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
- Post-secondary
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
Other
- Early childhood development
- Other
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Financial literacy
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
- Vocational training
Quality
- Curricula/lesson plans
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
- School violence
- Teacher training
Skills
- Civics education
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- STEM
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Empowerment
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Migration
- Nutrition
- Other
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Other cultural practices
- Sexual harassment & coercion
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Sports
- 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)
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Office location(s)
- Australia
- Benin
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Eswatini
- Ghana
- Guinea
- India
- Indonesia
- Jordan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Senegal
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Uganda
- United Republic of Tanzania
- United States of America
- Zimbabwe
Contacts
- Gill Garb
- Vice President
- wei@worlded.org
- +16174829485
- World Education, Inc.
Locations of current girls’ education work
- Benin
- Egypt
- Eswatini
- Ghana
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Nepal
- Uganda
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Projects Back to Top
Project/Program
DREAMS
Project/Program
Sang Sangai - Learning Together Project
Project/Program
Mothers' Associations (Associations des Meres d'Eleves or AMEs)
Project/Program
Essential Gender-Based Violence Services and Prevention Project in Malawi
Project/Program
Waache Wasome (Let Them Learn)
Project/Program
Programme d'accès à l'éducation pour tous les enfants au Mali/Access to Education for All Children in Mali (PACETEM)
Advocacy Campaign/Project
COVID-19: Policy Brief and Recommendations: Strengthening efforts to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence as schools reopen
Project/Program
Access to Education for All Children in Mali Project (PACETEM)
Project/Program
Western Uganda Bantwana Program
Project/Program
Strategic Approaches to Girls' Education (STAGE)
Project/Program
Life Skills Education (LSE)
Project/Program
Go Girls Connect!
Project/Program
Egypt Literate Village