United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- F Funder
Description
USAID is the world's premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. USAID's work advances U.S. national security and economic prosperity, demonstrates American generosity, and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience. USAID works to ensure inclusive equitable quality education for all children and youth, especially the most marginalized and vulnerable. To achieve our education goals, USAID promotes education programs that respond to the needs of both girls and boys by: Reducing gender-based violence against children and mitigating its harmful effects; and Increasing the capability of learners to realize their rights, determine their life outcomes and influence their decision making so that all learners, especially girls, have access to safe, quality education programs and services.
Primary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Funding
- Networking/Convening
- Policy Development/Implementation
- Research - policy analysis
- Research - project evaluation
Secondary Functions
- Research - other
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 facilities
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
- School violence
- Teacher training
Skills
- Civics education
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Other academic performance-related
- STEM
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Empowerment
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Food/water security
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Nutrition
- 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
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Headquarters location(s)
- Washington, D.C., , United States of America
Office location(s)
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Gambia, The
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Republic of Moldova
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Republic of Tanzania
- United States of America
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Viet Nam
- West Bank and Gaza
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Locations of current girls’ education work
Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs
- N/A
Projects Back to Top
Research Project/Report/Study
Afya Pwani
Project/Program
Malawi Secondary Education Expansion for Development (SEED)
Advocacy Campaign/Project
USAID Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze
Project/Program
Soma Umenye (“read and understand”)
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Youth Empowerment
Project/Program
Uganda School Health and Reading Program
Project/Program
Tusome Pamoja (Read Together)
Project/Program
Uganda Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity