Secure Funding for Women's Higher Education Scholarships
Summary
This program offers a significant endowment to fund higher education scholarships for qualified Afghan women, aiming to empower them and promote gender equity. The funding supports women from university through to professional positions, ensuring sustained educational assistance and career advancement.
Eligibility
Full Description
The Promote Scholarship Endowment (PSE) provides a USD 50 million endowment to fund higher education scholarships for qualified Afghan women. The endowment enhances women’s empowerment and gender equity, an Intermediate Result in the current USAID/Afghanistan strategic framework, by assisting Afghan women in obtaining a university or graduate education, better enabling them to serve in positions of influence in the public and private sectors. The endowment merges with other Promote components to create a full suite of empowerment activities, supporting women from the beginning of their higher education through attaining a professional position. Establishing the endowment also preserves empowerment successes by sustaining long-term educational assistance.
Please see amendment 01.