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29 November 2024

Improving Education in Africa

Improving Education in Africa synthesizes research across 33 countries in Africa to identify promising pathways for enhancing learning outcomes while strengthening equity and resilience in African education systems.Drawing from data covering over 167,000 schools, and insights from thousands of students, teachers, ...

Teachers for all

Teacher deployment is a key barrier to improving foundational learning for children in sub-Saharan Africa. While teacher shortages are a critical bottleneck in some countries, the uneven distribution of existing teachers is a more pervasive challenge. This leads to disparities in class sizes and learning conditio...

Education in Africa

Nowhere in the world is the global learning crisis more severe than in Africa, where an estimated four out of five children are unable to read a simple text by the age of 10. While this problem is broadly understood, there remains a large knowledge gap in understanding how to effectively address it at scale and w...

Time to Teach

Quality education starts with teachers: they must be present and engaged for learning to take place. But teacher attendance rates remain alarmingly low in certain parts of Africa. When students are without teachers – an essential prerequisite to learning – they are less likely to meet foundational numeracy and lit...

Disrupting Harm

The Disrupting Harm project was established to generate high-quality evidence on technology-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse of children. It is a research project conducted in partnership with ECPAT International and INTERPOL , funded by the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children . Together, ...

Online Risk and Harm for Children in Eastern and Southern Africa

Despite gaps in some parts of the continent, the number of young people across Africa who use the internet increases every year. This increase in internet availability is already having some positive impacts in terms of creating jobs and reducing poverty, which is necessary to meet the needs of a fast-growing popu...

01 December 2022

Disrupting Harm country reports

Funded by the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, through its Safe Online initiative, ECPAT, INTERPOL, and UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti worked in partnership to design and implement Disrupting Harm – a research project on online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA). This unique par...

01 November 2022

Estimates of internet access for children

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed internet connectivity from an important asset to an essential piece of infrastructure. Yet two thirds of the world’s school-aged children still have no fixed internet connection at home. This lack of connectivity limits their ability to go online; prevents them from participating ...

Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in West and Central Africa

Teachers are the most important drivers of students’ academic achievement and they are at the heart of learning recovery efforts. Finding out the bottlenecks and necessary conditions for ensuring teachers’ presence at school and in the classroom is essential. Time to Teach is a mixed methods research initiative th...

Reopening with Resilience: Eastern and Southern Africa

The widespread school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the learning crisis for children living in Eastern and Southern Africa. The crisis has also shown the great need to develop resilient education systems that can provide learning when schools are forced to close. Understanding how to provi...

Leveraging AI in Africa to accelerate progress for children

This work is part of UNICEF's AI for children AI for Children project . 2 minute read : The reflections in this post are from a regional consultation that took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in February 2020. It is the third in a series of regional workshops designed to develop policy guidance for AI systems that help realize child rights. …

How can we build AI that empowers children in Africa?

This work is part of UNICEF's AI for Children project . Expert Q&A | 8 minute read These reflections were gathered at an AI and Children African regional consultation that took place in Cape Town, South Africa in February 2020. It is the third in a series of regional workshops designed to develop global AI policy guidance that protects…