Education faces critical resourcing challenges, worsened by public debt and climate disasters. Lack of government investment has led to a shortage of free, quality schools and teachers to meet girls’ needs, especially in rural areas.
Ensuring government funding improves girls’ secondary education access in rural areas.
Calling for greater government efforts to recruit female teachers in rural areas.
Advocating for policies to reduce the cost of girls' secondary schooling for families in rural areas.
Ensuring government funding improves girls’ secondary education access in rural areas.
Calling for greater government efforts to recruit female teachers in rural areas.
Advocating for policies to reduce the cost of girls' secondary schooling for families in rural areas.
The cost of education is a major barrier to girls’ education in rural areas. Books, uniforms and transportation strain the incomes of families already living below the poverty line.
Our partner provides bicycles to girls from low-income households to travel safely to school and mobilises communities to advocate for girls’ education across Punjab.
Pakistan spends less than 2% of its GDP on education, resulting in not enough free, quality schools and teachers to meet girls’ learning needs, especially in rural areas.
Alongside our partners, we monitor and hold the government accountable for its commitment to increase the education budget from 1.9% to 4% of GDP by 2029 and increase investment in education infrastructure in rural areas.
Through our Education Champion Network, we invest in civil society organisations dedicated to advancing policies that strengthen and resource girls’ right to education. We aim to allocate at least 20% of our grants to organisations led by girls or young women to realise their powerful potential to generate new solutions and lead change.
We consider our grantees to be true partners and strive to catalyse and complement their work at the local, national and global levels. Our flexible, multi-year grants provide our partners with the stability and agility they need to achieve lasting impact for girls.
Through our resident team in Pakistan, we directly advocate alongside partners towards common policy goals to strengthen girls’ right to secondary education and unlock more resources to realise policy commitments.
Shaped the government’s commitment to girls' education in the 2024 Education Emergency.
Advocated to introduce a law to end corporal punishment in schools in Punjab.
Advocated for resilient education systems to counter the impact of emergencies nationally.
Successfully advocated for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provincial government to increase education funding by 24% in their 2021-22 budget.
Our resident team in Islamabad manages our grantmaking and works closely with grantee partners to drive action on our shared policy priorities in Pakistan.
With more than 122 million girls out of school today, she needs your help to reach the most vulnerable girls denied an education.
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