Girls' Education Challenge

Closed: The Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) is helping up to a million of the world’s poorest girls improve their lives through education.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 28 October 2016
• Last updated: 2 March 2017 — See all updates

• Funds: Closed
• Countries: Congo (Democratic Republic), Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi
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  Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
• Sector: Disabilities, Education, Empowerment and accountability, Girls and women and Livelihoods
• Eligible organisations: Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), UK-based non-profit organisations, UK-based small and diaspora organisations and Companies

This opportunity is closed.

Overview

So far, the Girls’ Education Challenge has reached over one million marginalised girls. We want to reach more. On 7 July, the Secretary of State for International Development announced £100 million of further funding for the Girls’ Education Challenge.

This provides an exciting opportunity to continue our work to support some of the world’s most marginalised girls and to stretch our ambition to ‘leave no one behind’.

For further information, please visit the Girls’ Education Challenge website.

Published 28 October 2016
Last updated 2 March 2017 + show all updates

1. 2 March 2017

   Concept note application stage now closed

2. 15 November 2016

   Applications for Leave No Girl Behind (LNGB) concept notes are now open

3. 28 October 2016

   New funding announced