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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, ...

20 November 2024

Strengthening local decision-making for a more effective education system in Madagascar

DMS SCALE (Strengthen Capacity and Advance Local Evidence Use) aims to empower local actors in the Malagasy education system by providing them with tools and skills to effectively use the data they collect – enabling rapid and context-specific decision-making. DMS SCALE builds on the Positive Deviance research, wh...

19 November 2024

Reporting and Responding to Sensitive Disclosures in School-Based Research

When conducting evidence activities with children, it is essential to have a robust, localized and resourced safeguarding response plan in place, even where the research is not specifically intended to address sensitive topics such as violence or abuse. During the Data Must Speak (DMS) positive deviance research, ...

10 October 2024

Making Digital Learning Work

Making Digital Learning Work, compiles six years of research, experiences and insights from the UNICEF–Akelius Digital Learning Initiative. The digital learning initiative focuses on improving learning for marginalized children including refugees who are acquiring a second or foreign language. Since 2018, the ini...

24 September 2024

Learning locked away?

Meet Nana, a third-grade teacher in Ghana. At the start of the school year, Nana eagerly watched as boxes of textbooks and workbooks arrived at her school. Hoping to use them to improve her instruction, she looked forward to facilitating new lesson plans and introducing more practice problems to her students using...

11 September 2024

Child Rights Youth Foresight Report 2024

What does the future hold for children’s rights?How do children and young people envision the future of their education, health, work, privacy, security, technology and the environment?Twelve Youth Foresight Fellows embarked on an intensive journey to seek answers directly from more than 800 children and young peo...

Leveraging Education to End Child Labour

Global progress in child labour reduction has stalled since 2016. In South Asia, the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, recurrent extreme weather events and the cost-of-living crisis further threaten to slow or even reverse the progress made. This synthesis report addresses a timely need for new resea...

Child Labour and Schooling in India

India has made rapid progress towards the universalization of school education, hand in hand with a decline in child labour. Despite progress, child labour persists in the country, just as school attendance and completion rates reveal gaps in educational attainment.This report addresses a timely need for new resea...

Child Labour and Schooling in Bangladesh

In the past two decades, Bangladesh experienced a substantial reduction in the prevalence of child labour, associated with improvements in school enrolment and completion. Despite progress, child labour persists in the country, also driven by household earning losses and school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemi...

Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities in Cambodia

In 2019, children with disabilities in Cambodia were three times less likely to access educational opportunities than their peers without disabilities. Several barriers impede their ability to access inclusive educational opportunities. These include limited capacity of mainstream schools to enroll children with d...

What works to advance pre-primary education?

The earlier we invest in children's learning, the greater the return on individuals and society. It is estimated that every dollar spent on pre-primary education results in a nine-dollar return to society. 1 Positive early learning and development experiences are linked to benefits in cognitive and socioemotional outcomes in children. Quality is a…, What does the evidence suggest?, Increasing the number of high-quality pre-primary education pro...

Women in Learning Leadership (WiLL)

School leaders play a critical role in creating high-quality teaching and learning environments within their schools that can contribute to improving student learning outcomes. Emerging evidence shows that female school leaders may adopt different practices, possibly creating more favourable learning environments....