Danish Development Cooperation (Danida)
- F Funder
Description
The vision for Denmark’s development cooperation is: A more secure and sustainable world free from poverty, based on international binding cooperation as well as just and resilient societies that fight inequality and create hope and future opportunities for the individual, with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement as beacons. The foundation of Denmark’s development cooperation are democratic values and human rights.
Danida makes a particular effort to advance gender equality, promote and protect the rights of girls and women, and maintain focus on marginalised groups. Gender equality is not only about girls and women having equal access to healthcare and education, but also about men assuming their responsibility at home when women enter the labour market. Danida will continue to lead the way in the global fight for gender equality and protection of girls and women’s rights and will focus particularly on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Danida will support gender equality and SRHR initiatives locally. We will partly do so through education, focus on girls and women’s economic and political empowerment, as well as through fighting sexual and gender-based violence.
Primary Functions
- Funding
Secondary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Policy Development/Implementation
- Program/Project Implementation
- Research - project evaluation
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
- Post-secondary
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
Other
- Early childhood development
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Financial literacy
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
- Vocational training
Quality
- Curricula/lesson plans
- School facilities
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
- School violence
- Teacher training
Skills
- Civics education
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Other academic performance-related
- STEM
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Empowerment
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Other cultural practices
- Sexual harassment & coercion
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
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Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
Danish Development Cooperation (Danida)
Headquarters location(s)
- Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
Office location(s)
- Denmark
Locations of current girls’ education work
Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- China
- Colombia
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- India
- Indonesia
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Mali
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Niger
- Pakistan
- Peru
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Viet Nam
- West Bank and Gaza