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.

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.

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’.

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 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 is working with Grand Challenges Canada’s (GCC) on two contracts: 1) to provide monitoring and evaluation support to their innovations across their global health portfolio, and 2) to provide gender and inclusion support to GCC and their innovators across their Health, Humanitarian and Indigenous innovation portfolios.