Education Above All

Founded in 2012 by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the former first lady of Qatar, Education Above All (EAA) foundation works to ensure global equitable access to quality education, especially in poor and distressed communities. EAA operates in 57 countries working with global, regional and local partners to deliver programmes. Using a co-funding model, the foundation works with government, multilateral aid agencies as well as private sector companies and multinationals to strengthen programme impact with pooled financial resources, advocacy support, and education research.

Related sustainable development goals

  • No Poverty
  • Zero Hunger
  • Good Health and Well-Being
  • Quality Education
  • Gender Equality
  • Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Reduced Inequalities
  • Climate Action
  • Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • Partnerships for the Goals

Impact

12 million out-of-school children enrolled

US$922 million donated 

 

Focus areas

Focus sectors

  • Education
    • Early childhood education
    • Elementary and secondary education
    • Higher education
  • Environment
    • Climate change
  • Humanitarian
    • Youth development
  • Public affairs
    • Leadership development

Focus populations

  • Adolescents
  • At-risk youth
  • Children
  • Immigrants and migrants
  • Internally displaced people
  • Preteens
  • Refugees and displaced people
  • Students
  • Young adults

Focus geographies

  • Africa
    • Mozambique
    • Chad
    • Congo R
    • Zambia
    • Togo
    • Senegal
    • Cameroon
    • Malawi
    • Djbouti
    • Tanzania
    • Liberia
    • Kenya
    • Mali
    • Madagascar
    • Comoros
    • Niger
    • Cote d'Ivoire
    • South Africa
    • Burkina Faso
    • Sudan
    • Somalia
    • Mauritania
    • Zimbabwe
    • Rwanda
    • Nigeria
    • Guinea Bissau
    • Sierra Leone
    • DR Congo
    • Ethiopia
    • Angola
    • Benin
    • Ghana
    • Uganda
    • South Sudan
  • Americas
    • Haiti
    • Colombia
    • Brazil
    • Mexico
    • Guatemala
    • Paraguay
    • United States
  • Europe
    • France
  • Middle East
    • Kuwait
    • Jordan
    • Qatar
    • Oman
    • Turkey
    • Yemen
    • Iran
    • Bahrain
    • Syria
    • Lebanon
    • Palestine
    • Iraq
  • North Africa
    • Tunisia
    • Algeria
    • Libya
    • Egypt
    • Morocco
  • South Asia
    • Bangladesh
    • India
    • Nepal
    • Afghanistan
    • Pakistan
  • South-east Asia
    • Thailand
    • Laos
    • Vietnam
    • Indonesia
    • Myanmar
    • Timor-Leste
    • Philippines
    • Cambodia
    • Malaysia

Grantees

  • Action Foundation
  • Aflatoun International
  • African Leadership Academy
  • Aid Afghanistan for Education
  • Aide et Action
  • Alight
  • American Refugee Committee
  • Anera
  • Aprendiz
  • Barefoot Edu
  • Bharti
  • BRAC
  • British Council
  • Building Tomorrow
  • Buildon
  • Care
  • Caritas Congo
  • Dignitas
  • Educate Girls
  • Education Development Center
  • Fundacio FCBarcelona
  • Fundacion Pies Descalzos
  • Gavi: The Vaccine Alliance
  • Generation Amazing
  • Girl Child Network
  • Global Education First Initiative
  • Graca Machel Trust
  • Gyan Shala
  • Hashoo Foundation
  • Human Appeal
  • Humana
  • Humanity and Inclusion
  • HundrED
  • Imagine1day
  • Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies
  • International Rescue Committee
  • KoBo Toolbox
  • Lebanese Alternative Learning
  • Mahbooba's Promise
  • Mantra
  • MEDG
  • Mercy Corps
  • MiET Africa
  • Nepal Red Cross Society
  • Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Oando Foundation
  • Pact
  • Plan International
  • Pratham
  • Qatar Foundation
  • Qatar Fund for Development
  • Qatar Red Crescent
  • Read Gobal
  • Rise International
  • Roger Federer Foundation
  • Save The Children
  • Spark
  • The Citizens Foundation
  • Turquoise Mountain
  • UNDP
  • UNESCO
  • UNHCR
  • UNICEF
  • UNICEF United States Fund
  • United World Schools
  • UNRWA
  • WB
  • World Vision
  • ZOCS

Partners

  • Action Foundation
  • ActionAid
  • Afif Charity
  • Aflatoun International
  • African Leadership Academy
  • Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
  • Aid Afghanistan for Education (AAE)
  • Aide et Action
  • Al Rayyan International University College (ARIU)
  • Al-Quds Bard College
  • Al-Quds University
  • Alight
  • American University of Beirut
  • ANERA
  • Aprendiz
  • Arkansas State University
  • Association for Academic Quality (AFAQ)
  • Barefoot Edu Foundation
  • Bharti
  • BRAC
  • British Council
  • British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
  • Building Tomorrow
  • buildOn
  • CAHPO
  • Cambridge Education
  • CAMFED
  • Care
  • Caritas Congo ABSL
  • Charmaghz
  • Commonwealth of Learning (CoL)
  • Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM)
  • Dignitas
  • Doha Film Institute
  • Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
  • Educate Girls
  • Education Development Center
  • Ek Tara
  • Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
  • Fundacio FC Barcelona
  • Fundación Pies Descalzos (FPD)
  • Gavi Vaccine Alliance
  • Generation Amazing
  • German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
  • Girl Child Network
  • Global Education First Initiative
  • Gonoshahajjo Sangstha (GSS)
  • Graça Machel Trust
  • Gyan Shala
  • Handicap International
  • Hashoo Foundation
  • Human Appeal
  • Humana
  • ICRC
  • imagine1day
  • Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
  • International Rescue Committee
  • Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
  • Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
  • KoBoToolbox
  • Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
  • Lebanese Alternative Learning
  • Luminus Technical University College
  • Mahboba’s Promise
  • Mantra4Change
  • Mercy Corp
  • MIET Africa
  • Monastic Education Development group (MEDG)
  • Nepal Red Cross Society
  • Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Oando Foundation
  • Plan International
  • Pratham
  • Qatar Fund fro Development
  • Qatar Red Crescent
  • READ Global
  • Rise International
  • Roger Federer Foundation
  • Save the Children
  • SciencesPo
  • Spark
  • Street Child
  • Swiss Academy for Development
  • The Citizens Foundation
  • The Yalda Hakim Foundation
  • Titian Foundation
  • Turquoise Mountain
  • UNESCO
  • UNHCR
  • UNICEF
  • UNRWA
  • USAid
  • World Vision

Programmes

  • Al Fakhoora
    Al Fakhoora focuses on increasing access to higher education for youth in conflict-affected regions by providing scholarship opportunities. To-date, the programme has awarded more than 7,000 scholarships.
  • Educate A Child

    This programme supports marginalised and at-risk out of school children (OOSC) with quality primary education. Interventions are targeted in places and geographies with challenging circumstances including poverty, discrimination, conflict, unsafe environments, and climate change.

  • Educate A Child International

    One of the programmes supported by Education Above All.

  • Innovation Development Directorate (IDD)

    IDD focusses on integrating technology and innovative solutions to introduce advanced ways of making high-quality education and learning accessible to all, and particularly to the most marginalised youth in underserved communities. This programme has reached more than 400,000 learners in 130 countries worldwide.

  • Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict (PEIC)
    This programme aims to promote the right to education in areas of crisis, conflict, and insecurity through law and policy advocacy.
  • Reach Out to Asia (ROTA)

    This programme aims to promote civic engagement, entrepreneurship, and global citizenship among marginalised youth in Asia to empower them to become active participants in building a better and more sustainable future. ROTA has been implemented in 21 countries and reached more than two million children and youth.

  • Together
    The Together project was launched in 2017 under the umbrella of Al Fakhoora to increase access to education through scholarships and through the establishment of alternative education spaces in Qatar called "Assalam Schools" in collaboration with ministries and NGOs. To date, this programme has provided 2,187 scholarships and launched five Assalam schools.
  • Youth advocacy

    The aim of this programme is to build youth ambassadors and empower them to become active agents of positive change through training, skill development, capacity building, cultural exchange, and peer-to-peer support groups.

Financials

Funding model

  • Foundation-administered programme awards
  • Grants to Individuals
  • Grants to organisations
  • In-kind gifts
  • Matching grants
  • Programme related investment
  • Volunteering

Primary funders

  • Abdullah Abdulghani and Bros
  • ADB
  • Afif Charity
  • Agence Francaise Development
  • Agence Franchise due Developpment
  • Al Meera
  • Alraya
  • Awqaf General Directorate for Endowment Qatar
  • Bharti
  • Carrefour
  • Chevron Phillips
  • Chopard
  • Elan Media
  • Eshailsat
  • ExxonMobil
  • Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
  • Huawei
  • Islamic Development Bank
  • Korea International Cooperation Agency
  • Lulu hypermarkets
  • Marriott Worldwide Business Councils Qatar
  • MegaMart
  • Ooredoo
  • Qatar Airways
  • Qatar Football Association
  • Qatar Fund for Development
  • Qatar Star League
  • Richard Mille
  • Snoonu
  • Spar
  • Talabat
  • USAID
  • Vodafone
  • W Doha
  • World Bank Group

Operations

Key staff

  • Fahad Al-Sulaiti, CEO
  • Mary Joy Pigozzi, executive director of Educate A Child programme
  • Maleiha Malik, executive director of Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict programme
  • Bothayna Al-Romaihi, general council
  • Leonardo de Castro Pinheiro, executive director of strategy, policy, and research
  • Abdulla Al-Abdulla, executive director of Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) programme
  • Janhvi M. Kanoria, director of innovation development
  • Parintaj Sulaiman Ankleshvria, director of private sector partnerships
  • Talal Al-Hothal, director of Al Fakhoora programme

Board members

  • Allan Goodman
  • Mazen Al Jaidah
  • Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Al Thani, vice chair
  • Sheikha Alya Bint Ahmed Al Thani
  • Sheikha Moza bint Nasser
  • Sunil Bharti Mitta

More

Resources

More from Education Above All: 

2021 Annual Report