Grant types
We focus on countries where girls face the biggest education barriers.
How we’re investing
Education Champion Network
Through our Education Champion Network, we provide grants to civil society organisations in our focus countries.
We aim to award at least 20% of our grants to organisations governed or led by girls and young women.
We prioritise flexible, multi-year grants — respecting and enhancing our partners’ autonomy to use these resources as they see fit.
We fund our grantee partners to address common country goals, contributing to stronger advocacy movements on the ground.
Global advocacy
We provide grants to organisations that advocate to global institutions and influential governments for bold policies that help strengthen girls’ rights and increase public funding for girls’ education. We prioritise organisations based in or that have a long-term presence in lower-income countries in the education, girls’ rights and gender equality sectors.
Education in emergencies
We respond to the education needs of adolescent girls in crises by mobilising funding to organisations at the forefront of response efforts. Below are organisations we have recently supported with emergency grants.
We provide targeted, discrete grants to organisations responding to crises to sustain girls’ education access.
We support organisations that deliver alternative and digital learning programmes for girls in Afghanistan while they are banned from secondary schools.
Afghanistan
The crisis in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, the Taliban forbids nearly 1.4 million adolescent girls from going to school under their system of gender apartheid. Despite the escalating oppression they face, women and girls are resisting by continuing to learn, sharing their stories with the world and speaking out for their rights. Malala Fund’s response to this crisis includes global advocacy grants to Afghan women activists and civil society organisations campaigning for the recognition of gender apartheid as a crime under international law, and education in emergencies grants to partners providing alternative and digital learning programmes for girls inside the country.
