World Bank Group
- A Advocate
- F Funder
- I Implementer
- N Network
- P Policymaker
- R Researcher
Description
With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. Our Mission: To end extreme poverty by reducing the share of the global population that lives in extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. To promote shared prosperity by increasing the incomes of the poorest 40 percent of people in every country. The World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. Its five institutions share a commitment to reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development.
Primary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Networking/Convening
Secondary Functions
- Other
- Research - policy analysis
- 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 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
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Food/water security
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Migration
- Nutrition
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Sports
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
- WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
Funders and partners Back to Top
Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
Headquarters location(s)
- Washington, D.C., , United States of America
Office location(s)
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia, The
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Republic of Moldova
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Switzerland
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- 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
Not applicable or unknown
Projects Back to Top
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Georgia I2Q - Innovation, Inclusion and Quality
Project/Program
Zambia Education Enhancement Project ZEEP
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Guinea-Bissau: The Quality Education for All Project
Project/Program
Education Sector Support Program
Project/Program
Zambia Education Sector Budget Support Programme
Project/Program
Ethiopia General Education Quality Improvement Program for Equity
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Eqra Project for Afghanistan
Project/Program
Education Access and Quality Improvement Project (EAQIP)
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Albania Gender Equality in Access to Economic Opportunities DPF
Project/Program
Rwanda Education Sector Programme Implementation Grant
Project/Program
Senegal Quality and Equity of Basic Education
Project/Program
Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE)
Research Project/Report/Study
Pivoting to inclusion: Leveraging lessons from COVID-19 crisis for learners with disabilities
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Benin Global Partnership for Education Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Improving Youth Employability Through Informal Apprenticeship
Project/Program
COVID-19 Response Project in the Education Sector in Benin
Project/Program
Quality Education for All Project
Project/Program
Partnership for Education Project for Nigeria
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Safe to Learn
Project/Program
Congo - Education Sector Support Project
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Youth Empowerment
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Guinea Project for Results in Early Childhood and Basic Education
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Ghana Secondary Education Improvement Project
Project/Program
Basic Education Strengthening Project
Project/Program
Third Punjab Education Sector Project for Pakistan
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Kiribati Fifth Economic Reform Development Policy Operation
Project/Program
Biruh Tesfa for All (“Bright Future for All”)
Project/Program
Burundi Transitional Education Plan (TEP)
Project/Program
UG Teacher and School Effectiveness Project
Project/Program
Providing an Education of Quality in Haiti (PEQH)
Project/Program
Promoting Early Childhood Development Project
Project/Program
Primary Education Equity in Learning Program
Project/Program
Tanzania Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project (SEQUIP)
Network/Convening/Conference
Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD)
Project/Program
Small Recipient Executed trust Fund Grant to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
Research Project/Report/Study
Estimating the Impacts of Microfranchising on Young Women in Nairobi
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Pakistan: Expanding equal access to learning during coronavirus
Project/Program
Burundi Skills for Jobs: Women and Youth Project
Research Project/Report/Study
The Impact of Secondary School Scholarships on Girls' Skill Development and Female Empowerment in Niger
Project/Program
Improving Inclusion in Secondary and Higher Education
Project/Program
Tanzania Education and Skills for Productive Jobs Program (ESPJ)
Project/Program
Senegal Quality and Equity of Basic Education
Project/Program
Improving Quality and Equity of Basic Education Project in Togo
Project/Program
Girls Education and Women Empowerment and Livelihoods (GEWEL) Project
Project/Program
Uganda Secondary Education Expansion Project (USEEP)
Project/Program
Nicaragua COVID-19 Education Sector Response
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
First Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence for Development Impact Project
Research Project/Report/Study
The Impact of Youth Clubs on Women's Empowerment in Niger
Project/Program
Rwanda Quality Basic Education for Human Capital Development Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
First Consolidation and Social Inclusion Development Program
Project/Program
Alliance for Education Quality Project
Project/Program
Punjab Education Sector Programme (PESP) II
Project/Program
The Quality Education for All Project in Guinea Bissau
Project/Program
Education Program for Results Additional Financing (EPforR AF)
Project/Program
Second Reaching Out of School Children Project
Project/Program
Kenya Secondary Quality Improvement Project
Project/Program
Cabo Verde Education and Skills Development Enhancement Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Chad - Refugees and Host Communities Support Project
Project/Program
Program for Improving Learning Outcomes and Socioemotional Education (PROMISE)
Project/Program
Safety Nets Project (Jigisemejiri)
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Indonesia: Improving Teacher Performance and Accountability (KIAT Guru) Phase 2
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Entrepreneurship-focused socioemotional skills for the most vulnerable youth in rural Mongolia
Project/Program
Madagascar Basic Education Support Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Equity with Quality and Learning at Secondary (EQUALS)
Research Project/Report/Study
Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A Set of Global Estimates
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Pacific Resilience Project
Project/Program
Togo COVID-19 Education Response
Project/Program
Central African Republic Human Capital: Women and Girls' Empowerment (Maïngo) Project
Project/Program
Girls Empowerment and Quality Education for All Project
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Gender transformative digital skills education framework
Project/Program
Tejaswini: Socioeconomic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls & Young Women
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Higher Education Development Project (HEDP)
Project/Program
Cameroon - GPE: Support to Education Sector
Project/Program
Harnessing the Demographic Dividend
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Chad Skills Development for Youth Employability Project
Project/Program
Benin Youth Employment Project
Project/Program
School Health Integrated Program (SHIP) - FRESH Framework
Project/Program
Senegal Investing in the Early Years for Human Development
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Support to the National Education Pact Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Belarus Education Modernization Project
Project/Program
Girls Learning and Empowerment Project
Research Project/Report/Study
Strengthening Gender Measures and Data in the COVID-19 Era
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Girls Learn Women Earn
Project/Program
Project for the Improvement of Education System Performance (PAPSE)
Project/Program
Mozambique Demographic Transition Waala Programme
Project/Program
Community Participation in How Is My School Doing Project
Research Project/Report/Study
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Shocks to Education and Policy Responses
Project/Program
Support to Quality Education Project (Niger)
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
CDI Third Fiscal Management, Education, Energy, and Cocoa Reforms DPF
Project/Program
Investing in Human Capital through Partnerships Beyond Aid in the Social Sectors Programme
Project/Program
Mali Improving Education Quality and Results for All Project (MIQRA)
Project/Program
Honduras Early Childhood Education Improvement Project
Project/Program
Projet d’éducation et de renforcement institutionnel 2 (PERI 2) (Education and Institutional Strengthening Project 2 (PERI 2))
Project/Program
Cote d'Ivoire: Education Service Delivery Enhancement Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Ethiopia Women Entrepreneurship Development Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Higher Education Development in Pakistan
Research Project/Report/Study
#SaveOurFuture Campaign
Project/Program
Punjab Education Support Programme II
Project/Program
Uganda COVID-19 Education Response Project
Project/Program
Education Quality Improvement Project (EQUIP)
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Education Modernization Project
Project/Program
Niger Skills Development for Growth Project
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Framework for Reopening Schools
Project/Program
Strengthening Malawi Education Systems (SMES)
Project/Program
Improving Learning and Empowering Girls in Mozambique
Project/Program
Higher Education for Economic Transformation Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Burkina Faso Higher Education Support Project
Research Project/Report/Study
Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents in Sierra Leone
Research Project/Report/Study
What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls
Project/Program
Balochistan Education Project