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

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Locations and contact information Back to Top

Website

ActionAid International

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

ActionAid International

Locations of current girls’ education work

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

  • 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

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