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The Girls Education Challenge

Reference number: DFIDCONS-0013

Open date: 14 October 2011

Close date: 25 November 2011

Abstract

The Girls Education Challenge is a new project that will call on the private sector, charities and non-governmental organisations to find better ways of getting girls into school in the poorest countries in Africa and Asia.

Audience

The Girls Education Challenge aims to provide education opportunities for up to a million girls. Up to £355m will be available through a competitive process that will encourage organisations to set up schemes targeting marginalised girls of primary and lower secondary age.

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