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Angeline Murimirwa
Chief Executive Officer of CAMFED, the girls' education organisation working in sub-Saharan Africa, and a co-founder of the CAMFED Association.
Self-reportedLatest source dated 2026Last reviewed 2026-10-26
What outcomes can be attributed to Angeline Murimirwa?
CAMFED - children supported to attend school (1993-2025)
Self-reported
- Role
- CEO since 2023 (figure is organisation-wide since 1993, not attributable to her tenure alone)
- Outcome
- 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
- Reported by
- CAMFED (website, citing CAMFED Annual Review 2025)
[1]CAMFED Association network
Self-reported
- Role
- Co-founder of the CAMFED Association
- Outcome
- 355,303 members (2025/26 website); 350,000 per Yidan Prize bio; members said to support on average 3 more girls each
- Reported by
- CAMFED; Yidan Prize Foundation (restating CAMFED data)
[1, 2]Learner Guide and transition programmes (to end 2023)
Self-reported
- Role
- CEO from 2023
- Outcome
- 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
- Reported by
- CAMFED (Our Impact page)
[3]UK FCDO Girls' Education Challenge - The Virtuous Cycle of Girls' Education (Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Apr 2017-Jan 2022)
Delivered
- Role
- CAMFED was the lead implementer; she was a senior CAMFED leader during the project (CEO from 2023, after project end)
- Outcome
- 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
- Reported by
- Girls' Education Challenge (FCDO programme platform) project page and final reflections document; external baseline/midline/endline evaluations exist but were not read
[4, 5]UK FCDO Girls' Education Challenge - Girls Learn, Succeed and Lead (Tanzania, Aug 2017-Jan 2022)
Delivered
- Role
- CAMFED lead implementer (organisation-level attribution)
- Outcome
- 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
- Reported by
- Girls' Education Challenge (FCDO programme platform) project page and final reflections document
[5, 6]Yidan Prize scale-up goal
Pledged
- Role
- Co-laureate with Lucy Lake
- Outcome
- Prize intended to help CAMFED reach an additional 5 million adolescent girls over five years
- Reported by
- Yidan Prize Foundation
[2]
Sources
- CAMFED (home page)CAMFED, 2026, primary source
- Lucy Lake and Angeline Murimirwa - 2020 Yidan Prize for Education Development laureatesYidan Prize Foundation, secondary source
- Our ImpactCAMFED, primary source
- The Virtuous Cycle of Girls' Education (project page)Girls' Education Challenge (UK FCDO), 2022, primary source
- CAMFED GEC final reflections: achievements and lessons learnedCAMFED with the Girls' Education Challenge (FCDO), 2022, primary source
- Girls Learn, Succeed and Lead (project page)Girls' Education Challenge (UK FCDO), 2022, primary source
Change history
- 2026-10-26 Record published.
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