Angeline Murimirwa

9.3 million children supported to attend school, including 2.9 million girls at secondary school, across Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe; 772,844 girls newly supported in 2025

Role

CEO since 2023 (figure is organisation-wide since 1993, not attributable to her tenure alone)

Reported by

CAMFED (website, citing CAMFED Annual Review 2025)

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355,303 members (2025/26 website); 350,000 per Yidan Prize bio; members said to support on average 3 more girls each

Role

Co-founder of the CAMFED Association

Reported by

CAMFED; Yidan Prize Foundation (restating CAMFED data)

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6,576 schools implementing the Learner Guide programme; 28,564 Learner Guides trained since start; 303,115 young women graduates supported by Transition Guides; 112,246 CAMFED Association entrepreneurs started a business

Role

CEO from 2023

Reported by

CAMFED (Our Impact page)

Sources ³

270,845 marginalised girls supported; Zambia in-school transition 6.6 percentage points above comparison group (target 2.7); 85% (Tanzania) and 77% (Zimbabwe) of transitees met economic empowerment criteria vs targets of 39% and 29%; 7,505 Learner/Transition Guides trained; endline learning tests not completed due to COVID-19

Role

CAMFED was the lead implementer; she was a senior CAMFED leader during the project (CEO from 2023, after project end)

Reported by

Girls' Education Challenge (FCDO programme platform) project page and final reflections document; external baseline/midline/endline evaluations exist but were not read

Sources ^{4 5}

7,009 marginalised girls (project page); supported students' in-school transition rose from 86.5% to 89.9% while comparison schools fell from 95.7% to 77.1%; Form 4 pass rate 86% vs 85.8% nationally; 724 Learner/Transition Guides trained

Role

CAMFED lead implementer (organisation-level attribution)

Reported by

Girls' Education Challenge (FCDO programme platform) project page and final reflections document

Sources ^{5 6}

Prize intended to help CAMFED reach an additional 5 million adolescent girls over five years

Role

Co-laureate with Lucy Lake

Reported by

Yidan Prize Foundation

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