EMpower Girl Fund Initiative

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

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