Empowerment and Opportunity | Gates Philanthropy Partners

About this fund

Empowered women and girls change their world and ours. Investing in women and girls has been proven to tackle poverty. Yet too many girls and women are denied an equal chance to learn, lead, earn, and thrive. Your giving makes those opportunities possible.

Focus areas

Lifting up communities of women to build solidarity, develop support networks, pool savings, and share financial risks. — Women’s collectives
©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Prashant Panjiar

Creating more “that-could-be-me” moments by championing women leaders in every field. — Women in leadership
©Gates Archive/Prashant Panjiar

Putting financial tools in women’s hands to improve their lives and their future—breaking the poverty cycle today for the next generation. — Women's economic empowerment
©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet

Increasing access for women and adolescents to decide if and when they are ready for pregnancy, and—when they are—ensuring healthy timing and spacing of those pregnancies. — Family planning
©Gates Archive/Samuel Bollendorff

Igniting potential by removing barriers for women

220M

220 million women in low-income countries can’t access contraceptives.

67M

67 million women in India are members of self-help groups, which offer community and economic opportunities.

153

153 countries have laws which discriminate against women economically.