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In 2012, the Department for International Development (DFID) launched the £355 million Girlsâ€� Education Challenge Fund (GEC), which intends to support up to a million of the world’s most marginalised girls to improve their lives through education. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp GEC will provide this support through three separate funding windows: (1) the Step Change Window (SCW); (2) the Innovation Window (IW); and (3) the Strategic Partnerships Window (SPW).

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Strategic Partnerships Window (SPW) contributes to the same high level GEC outcomes of improving attendance in education and learning for marginalised girls. But it has a specific and distinct focus on achieving these outcomes by building strategic partnerships with the private sector. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp SPW was designed to identify and develop partnerships with the private sector that combine the social and commercial business cases for delivering sustainable education outcomes for marginalised girls.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp first phase of the SPW was launched in October 2013. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappre are four SPW projects: (1) Coca-Cola Company’s Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE) programme covering four states in Nigeria; (2) Discovery Communicationsâ€� Girls project working in schools in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya; (3) Avanti Communicationsâ€� i-Mlango project working across four counties in Kenya; and (4) Ericsson’s Connect to Learn project in Burma.