Action Éducation

Overview

Action Éducation is a French non-profit founded in 1981 and recognised as a public utility. It operates globally—in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Switzerland—running over 80 projects across 19 countries, and supporting more than 1.4 million people, including children, women, and vulnerable adults.

Grounded in the values of dignity, inclusion, integrity, transparency, accountability, and solidarity, its mission is to defend the fundamental right to free, high-quality, and inclusive education. Action Éducation focuses on key areas: defending education rights, ensuring access and quality from early childhood through secondary schooling, supporting girls’ and women’s education, promoting vocational training and lifelong learning, and fostering inclusive education for those facing discrimination or marginalisation.

The organisation believes quality education is a powerful lever against poverty, poor health, inequality, gender bias, violence, and environmental challenges. For example, it notes extra schooling can boost incomes by 10–20% and improve health outcomes—educated mothers double their children’s likelihood of survival.

Action Éducation engages in both grassroots interventions—like building community preschool centres, training teachers, and conducting parent awareness in rural Vietnam and Togo—and policy and advocacy work, striving to influence government commitments to Sustainable Development Goal 4: inclusive, equitable education for all by 2030.