Office of Global Women's Issues, United States Department of State
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- I Implementer
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Description
Around the world, we have seen how even modest investments in the abilities and potential of women and girls can yield transformative results not just for women and girls themselves, but for their families and communities. The Office of Global Women’s Issues works (S/GWI) across the U.S. government, including with diplomatic missions, overseas to identify organizations in countries around the world that are striving to meet the critical needs of women and girls, and boost their economic, political, and social status. S/GWI advances U.S. security, prosperity, and interests by ensuring that women and girls are included in the formulation and conduct of U.S. foreign policy. Our programs catalyze gender equality work across the Department and in public-private partnerships, while creating models for implementing programs that advance the status of women and girls with U.S. foreign policy goals and American values. In addition to region and country-specific activities, S/GWI supports a number of global initiatives to advance gender equality and empower women and girls.
Primary Functions
- Funding
- Policy Development/Implementation
Secondary Functions
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
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 skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
- Vocational training
Quality
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
Skills
- Civics education
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- STEM
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Food/water security
- HIV and STIs
- Migration
- Nutrition
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
Office of Global Women's Issues, United States Department of State
Headquarters location(s)
- Washington, D.C., , United States of America
Office location(s)
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas, The
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- Gambia, The
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guatemala
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macao Special Administrative Region, China
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia, Federated States of
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of Moldova
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- United Republic of Tanzania
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Locations of current girls’ education work
Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs
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