Batonga Foundation

  • A Advocate
  • I Implementer
  • R Researcher

Description

The Batonga Foundation was founded by Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter, Angelique Kidjo, with the mission to equip the hardest-to-reach girls and women with knowledge and skills they need to be agents of change in their own lives and communities. Batonga envisions a safer, healthier and more equitable world in which all girls and women can thrive. We work with the most vulnerable girls and young women in Benin to help them move from a state of poverty, isolation, and vulnerability to one of social and economic empowerment.

Primary Functions

  • Awareness Raising/Advocacy
  • Capacity building/Technical assistance
  • Program/Project Implementation

Secondary Functions

  • Networking/Convening
  • Research - project evaluation

Geographic Scope

  • Global / regional

Areas of work Back to Top

Education topics addressed

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • School quality

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting topics addressed

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Mentorship
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Funders and partners Back to Top

Current girls’ education funders

Current girls' education partners

Locations and contact information Back to Top

Website

Batonga Foundation

Headquarters location(s)

  • Cotonou, Littoral, Benin
  • Washington, D.C., , United States of America

Office location(s)

  • Benin
  • United States of America

Contacts

Emily Strange
Marketing & Development Officer
emilystrange@batongafoundation.org
+12024034788
Batonga Foundation

Locations of current girls’ education work

Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs

  • Benin

Projects Back to Top