The Girls Opportunity Alliance (GOA) is a program of the Barack Obama Foundation, which strives to raise awareness of the importance of girls' education by giving a platform to grassroots initiatives from the Global South to share their work, and funding girl’s education projects, particularly in Africa.

Women and children in Southeast Asia experience persistently high levels of gender-based violence (GBV) including intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual exploitation and abuse, and a recent surge in online abuse and harassment.

In order to slow the spread of COVID-19, healthcare providers have been prioritized for the roll out of limited vaccine supplies in Nigeria and in many parts of the world.

The potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on girls’ education and wellbeing are numerous and diverse. Most directly, many schools in South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific closed for extended periods, and large numbers of children were unable to access distance learning opportunities.

The strategic goal of the Primary Health Care (PHC) portfolio at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is to support countries to achieve better health outcomes through improved primary health care.

While adolescence is a critical time for girls to build the agency and resources they need to make healthy and safe transitions to adulthood, too often they face insurmountable challenges.

FCDO’s 5-year £19 million Gender Responsive Social Protection Programme aims to improve the impact and value for money of social protection investments in stable and fragile contexts.

As Sub-Saharan Africa recovers from the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, investing in sustainable and scalable solutions to women’s economic empowerment presents a critical opportunity to ‘build back better’.

CGAP’s three-year project on Digital Financial Services (DFS) Distribution Networks seeks to enable key stakeholders in six focus countries (Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, Colombia) to leverage current knowledge about Cash-in and Cash-out (CICO) networks in rural areas, where most of the financially excluded people still live, with a view to enabling more rural customers to access and use digital financial services.

Unreasonable exists to re-purpose capitalism. They are an international company that supports a Fellowship for growth-stage entrepreneurs, channels exclusive deal-flow to investors, and partners with institutions to discover profit in solving global problems.

The period of late adolescence and early adulthood is a significant one, which profoundly influences future potential.

Adolescent girls often experience significant barriers to economic empowerment due to social norms which limit their power to make and act on economic decisions in order to enhance their broader well-being and position in society.

Gender Equality is a key pillar of Right To Play’s work, underlining the organizational belief that meaningful engagement of girls and boys in decision making is essential to the empowerment, education, and safety of children around the world.

Many cities in Southeast Asia face enormous social and economic challenges post-COVID-19. Can cities in the region use digital technologies to overcome inequalities and improve the lives and livelihoods of the marginalized and disadvantaged?

Kore Global were contracted by the British Council in 2021 to undertake comprehensive gender analyses of the education sector in 5 countries in South Asia.

Kore Global has worked in partnership with The Asia Foundation for the past two years to build country staff research capacity in several South East Asia countries, with a focus on qualitative research on gender equality and social inclusion in urban settings, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives of vulnerable groups.

Kore Global has led a participatory, interactive gender strategy design process to identify the objectives, strategic interventions and results related to work on gender equality.

Canada’s International Development Research Centre, in partnership with the Soros Economic Development Fund at the Open Society Foundations, has provided a grant to Kore Global to lead a research consortium to map out, profile and systematically review care economy business models in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Kore Global provides customised technical assistance to SheDecides to develop and implement a results framework and capture how SheDecides is making a contribution to advancing bodily autonomy and reproductive choice.

Kore Global partnered with UNICEF, Volta Capital and the GenderSmart Investing team to assess the role that private capital can play in reducing the gendered barriers that adolescent girls and young women face on their pathways from education to employment.