Gender Equity/Education Funding

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Our education partners equip women and girls with qualifications, skills and confidence to realize their potential through enrollment and retention in formal education, as well as non-formal education focusing on livelihood and employment competencies.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Latin America & Caribbean, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Afghanistan, Brazil, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Sri Lanka, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Activity URL

https://www.comofoundation.org/our-work/gender-equity/education/

Government Affiliation
Unknown
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Medha, Vacha, Azad Foundation, Going to School, Little Sisters Fund, Mitrataa Foundation

Ministry Affiliation
N/A
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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
  • Post-secondary
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
Other skills
  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Vocational training
Quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
Cross-cutting areas
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other cultural practices
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
Life skills education
  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power
Reducing economic barriers
  • Financial literacy training
School-related gender-based violence
  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
Women's empowerment programs
  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Increased knowledge of rights