Unpaid caregiving in Sierra Leone significantly hampers gender equity, particularly in Freetown, where women and girls bear a disproportionate burden within households. Due to the time-intensive nature of caregiving responsibilities, women work 1.6 times more than men, encompassing both paid and unpaid work. This time poverty restricts their opportunities for education, well-being, and economic advancement, while also leaving them vulnerable to sexual violence.

The care economy is a critical, yet often underfunded and undervalued, sector that encompasses paid and unpaid care work. It includes activities related to caregiving for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, as well as domestic work.

British International Investment (BII) is the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor with a mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges. BII invests to create more productive, sustainable and inclusive economies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, enabling people in those regions to build better lives for themselves and their communities.

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 sought to enable key stakeholders in six focus countries (Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, Colombia) to leverage existing 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.