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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