Girl Capital

Girl Capital is a global strategy and integral component of CIFF’s pivot towards realizing the demographic dividend. Starting in India and building on current investments, it will focus on specific catalytic points that will enable girls 5-25 years to stay in school, choose if, and when, to get married and to start a family, improve not just their living standards and life outcomes but also those of their children. This will potentially break the intergenerational cycle of poverty of injustice on the planet. Our Theory of Change focuses on six key actions – education, life skills, technical and vocational training, income generation and social norm changes. We are confident a combination of these will have a direct impact on child marriage, age of first pregnancy and female labour force participation. We also anticipate progress across CIFF’s portfolio, such as lower instances of low birth weight, improved adolescent sexual and reproductive health indicators and reduced trafficking. The ultimate impact is agency to negotiate choices and make decisions, as well as resources and earnings to reduce poverty and inequality.