ActionAid International
- A Advocate
- F Funder
- I Implementer
- N Network
Description
ActionAid is an international organisation, working with over 15 million people in 45 countries for a world free from poverty and injustice. They work with communities over time, using resources, skills, knowledge and contacts to strengthen on the ground efforts to end poverty. They help people to form organisations, to mobilise movements, to make their voices heard. Working in partnership with more than 2,000 locally-based organisations around the world, and being involved in over 100 alliances and networks.
Primary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Program/Project Implementation
Secondary Functions
- Networking/Convening
- Policy Development/Implementation
- Research - policy analysis
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
Other skills
- Rights/empowerment education
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
- Food/water security
- HIV and STIs
- Nutrition
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
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)
- Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Office location(s)
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- American Samoa
- Angola
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Comoros
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Czechia
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Faroe Islands
- French Polynesia
- Ghana
- Guam
- Guinea
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Pakistan
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Taiwan, China
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Vanuatu
- Viet Nam
- West Bank and Gaza
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Contacts
Locations of current girls’ education work
- Afghanistan
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Haiti
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Myanmar
- Nicaragua
- Pakistan
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Thailand
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Viet Nam
- West Bank and Gaza
- Zimbabwe
Projects Back to Top
Research Project/Report/Study
The Impact of COVID-19 on Young Women
Advocacy Campaign/Project
In Solidarity With Girls: Gender and Education in Crisis
Research Project/Report/Study
The COVID-19 Crisis and its Impact on Global Education
Project/Program
Saba Boru Integrated Community Development Program
Project/Program
Preventing Sexual and Gender-based Violence Against Children
Research Project/Report/Study
Programmatic approaches to the gender-related impacts of COVID-19 on education: Lessons from 2020
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Ten Point Call to Action on Education during COVID-19
Project/Program
Access to Quality Education for Children
Project/Program
Education for Life