{{Short description|Non-profit organization}} thumbnail|right '''Girl Effect''' is an independent non-profit organization, launched in September 2015 with the goal of ending poverty globally.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rahim-kanani/nike-foundation-girl-effect_b_850551.html|title=The Nike Foundation on Unleashing the 'Girl Effect'|last=Kanani|first=Rahim|date=2011-04-20|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-17}}</ref>
With the focus on adolescent girls in the Global South, the initiative is attempting to shed light on the exceptional potential these young girls hold on ending world issues.
The organization's framework was inspired by neoliberalism ideologies and the slogan, Girl Power.
==History== Girl Effect was created in 2004 by the Nike Foundation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://global.girleffect.org/who-we-are/our-story/|title=Our story|website=Girl Effect|language=en|access-date=2021-11-23|archive-date=2021-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124003827/https://global.girleffect.org/who-we-are/our-story/|url-status=dead}}</ref> in collaboration with the NoVo Foundation and United Nations Foundation. It launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Farah Ramzan Golant was appointed as the CEO. Maria Eitel, President and CEO of the Nike Foundation, was appointed chairman of the organization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.girleffect.org/people/|title=People|website=Girl Effect|language=en|access-date=2017-03-31|archive-date=2017-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401144007/http://www.girleffect.org/people/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2019, Jessica Posner Odede replaced Golant as CEO.
It has since become an independent organization.
==Awards== * At the Life Ball 2013 in Vienna, Austria, The Girl Effect was awarded the Life Ball Crystal of Hope Award donated by Swarovski, endowed with EUR 100,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lifeball.org/?p=5595 |title=Life Ball: Crystal of Hope 2013 donated by Swarovski for "The Girl Effect" |publisher=lifeball.org |date= |accessdate=2013-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823055212/http://www.lifeball.org/?p=5595 |archive-date=2013-08-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Sep 2017 Technology Enabled Girl Ambassadors received an honorable mention in Fast Company’s sixth annual Innovation By Design Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.girleffect.org/stories/tega-receives-honorable-mention-fast-companys-2017-innovation-design-awards/|title=TEGA receives honorable mention in Fast Company's 2017 Innovation by Design Awards|website=Girl Effect|access-date=2019-08-06|archive-date=2019-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806005458/https://www.girleffect.org/stories/tega-receives-honorable-mention-fast-companys-2017-innovation-design-awards/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Critiques== This campaign has been the focus of feminist and academic critiques. The campaign was said to rely on essentialist views of womanhood. Further, these types of campaigns that do not take into consideration men and the relations of women and girls with their households and community often have the effect of overburdening women who are already responsible for childcare and all types of formal and informal labor.<ref>{{cite web|last=Carella |first=Anna |title=So Now We Have to Save Ourselves and the World, too? A Critique of the Girl Effect |url=http://aidwatchers.com/2011/01/so-now-we-have-to-save-ourselves-and-the-world-too-a-critique-of-%E2%80%9Cthe-girl-effect%E2%80%9D/ |work=Aid Watch |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508163948/http://aidwatchers.com/2011/01/so-now-we-have-to-save-ourselves-and-the-world-too-a-critique-of-%E2%80%9Cthe-girl-effect%E2%80%9D/ |archivedate=2013-05-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Chant|first=Sylvia|title=From 'Woman‐Blind'to 'Man‐Kind'Should Men Have More Space in Gender and Development?|journal=IDS Bulletin|year=200}}</ref>
Critics have also argued that the organization limits girls in the Global South as subjects and investments for the ideal world, which adopts notions from orthodox beliefs that these individuals are concurrently attempting to dismantle.
==See also== Chhaa Jaa
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==External links== *[http://www.girleffect.org/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707083340/https://www.girleffect.org/ |date=2020-07-07 }} *[https://chhaajaa.com/ India website] *{{Cite journal|jstor=24571900 |title='the revolution will be led by a 12-year-old girl': Girl power and global biopolitics |last1=Koffman |first1=Ofra |last2=Gill |first2=Rosalind |journal=Feminist Review |date=2013 |volume=105 |issue=105 |pages=83–102 |doi=10.1057/fr.2013.16 |s2cid=144863193 }}
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