Right to Play

  • A Advocate
  • I Implementer
  • N Network

Description

Right To Play’s mission is to harness the transformative power of play to protect, educate and empower children facing adversity. Founded in 2000, Right To Play works with over 2.3 million children and youth in disadvantaged communities and operates in 15 countries. Right To Play is recognized as one of the leading global authorities in play-based learning and has pioneered a unique play-based approach to learning and development which focuses on life skills, gender equality, child protection, health and well-being and building peaceful communities.

Primary Functions

  • Awareness Raising/Advocacy
  • Program/Project Implementation
  • Research - project evaluation

Secondary Functions

  • Capacity building/Technical assistance
  • Networking/Convening

Geographic Scope

  • Global / regional

Areas of work Back to Top

Education topics addressed

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition

Other

  • Early childhood development

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting topics addressed

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Gender equality
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Other cultural practices
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Sports
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Funders and partners Back to Top

Current girls’ education funders

Current girls' education partners

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Locations and contact information Back to Top

Website

Right to Play

Headquarters location(s)

  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Office location(s)

  • Burundi
  • Canada
  • China
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mali
  • Mozambique
  • Pakistan
  • Rwanda
  • Thailand
  • Uganda
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • West Bank and Gaza

Locations of current girls’ education work

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

  • Burundi
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Lebanon
  • Mozambique
  • Pakistan
  • Rwanda
  • Uganda
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • West Bank and Gaza

Projects Back to Top

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