EMpower Girl Fund Initiative

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I Inactive

Key Information

As part of the NoVo Foundation-supported Girl Fund, EMpower is supporting research on best practices related to very young adolescent girls, which includes the topic of girls education and addresses the broader issues that affect girls' school attendance and performance. In its second year, the initiative will support work with girls ages 10-24.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2019 - 2021

Partner(s)

Cidadania, Estudos, Pesquisas, Informação e Ação (CEPIA), Asociación Pukllasunchis, Fundacion Huesped, Fundacion Tiempo de Juego (TJ), Solidaridad Internacional Kanda, A.C. (SiKanda) NORSAAC, United Through Sport, Rock Girl SA/Brave, Pragatee Foundation (Enabling Leadership), Society for Development Activities (Project KHEL), Nirantar, Oscar Foundation, Ballygunj Society for Children in Pain (Chip Mumbai), Yayasan Kusuma Buana (YKB), VANGO (Vietnamese American Non-Governmental Organization Network)

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Other academic performance-related
  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

10 - 24

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Charlotte Tweedley
Emerging Market Foundation (EMpower)
ctweedley@empowerweb.org
+12126084455