Data Must Speak: Togo
Positive deviance reports and project briefs
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Highlights
The Togolese government, through the education sector plan (ESP) 2014-2025, aims to achieve universal quality primary education. With this goal, they recognize the challenges in education access, participation, and retention. School performance is one of the areas through which they understand and address these challenges.
In Togo, some schools demonstrate exceptional performance. These "positive deviant" schools perform better than their peers despite operating under similar conditions and resources. This research utilizes administrative data to identify these schools, explore their success stories, and understand their locally led solutions. The aim is to empower educators and policymakers with practical insights for broader implementation.
Data Must Speak (DMS) is a global initiative launched in 2014 to address evidence gaps and mitigate the learning crisis using existing data. The DMS Positive Deviance research is co-created and co-implemented with Ministries of Education and key partners. It employs mixed methods and innovative approaches, including positive deviance, behavioral sciences, implementation research, and scaling science, to generate knowledge and practical lessons. The research focuses on understanding 'what works,' 'why,' and 'how' to scale grassroots solutions for national policymakers and the international education community.
On this webpage, you will find all the DMS Positive Deviance research outputs related to Togo:
DMS Stage 1: Understanding what resources and contextual factors are associated with good school performance
- Stage 1 report: Unpacking Factors Influencing School Performance in Togo (English and French)
- Policy brief 1: Giving all girls a chance for promotion and success (English and French)
- Policy brief 2: Investing in the teaching profession (English and French)
- Policy brief 3: Determining the best resources for the Togolese education system (English and French)
DMS Stage 3: Discovering locally led behaviours and practices to improve quality education
- Rapport etape 3 : Des écoles qui inspirent le changement : recherche sur les écoles modèles positives au Togo (French)
- Executive summary Stage 3 of the DMS research in Togo (English)
