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SIEF Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To strengthen the impact of global aid by learning lessons and generating evidence for design of new programmes. The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF), over 2011/12-2021/22, will be channelled through a World Bank executed Trust Fund. It is expected that SIEF will deliver a minimum of 54 high quality impact evaluations of key development interventions focusing on human development outcomes. In addition, SIEF will deliver 20 capacity building workshops and events to improve understanding of impact evaluation techniques.
Disability Capacity Building Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To promote the rights of people with disabilities in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by supporting the delivery of small grants, training and partnership building between UN agencies, governments, private sector and disabled persons organisations.
Adolescence Research Programme GAGE (formerly GGRI)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The UK will generate new evidence on ‘what works’ to transform the lives of poor adolescent girls to enable them to move out of poverty. Results will directly inform FCDO and other international and national actors to develop or revise policies and programmes to effectively reach adolescent girls. It will enable girls to have increased voice, choice, and control over their lives in at least 4 FCDO priority countries and lead to reduction in early and forced marriage, reduction in violence, and improved economic wellbeing. Evidence will lead to an increase in donor and national investments for girls.
The EdTech Hub (Educational Technology Hub) - Robust research and innovation on digital, data and technology in education systems, providing global public research goods and direct country support for effective decision making on edtech.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Technology has the potential to help solve the global learning crisis. But that potential is not being realised due to gaps in the evidence and gaps in the use of evidence. The EdTech Hub aims to bridge this evidence gap, and supports and empowers people by giving them the evidence they need to make decisions about technology in education.
J-PAL Education Initiative
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The JPAL Education Initiative delivers the highest standards of quantitative research applied to critical policy questions on education. Researchers partner with education practitioners and governments to test, adapt and scale a wide range of promising interventions. The research focusses on 3 core themes: girls' education; foundational learning, and; climate change and education. Cost data is collected throughout, supporting evidence-based investment and dis-investment decisions by donors and country governments.
Raising Learning Outcomes (RLO)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To develop a portfolio of research that provides policymakers and practitioners with concrete ideas on how to improve learning, with particular attention on gender and disability. The RLO programme is a partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) that uses the best of British research commissioning processes to award research grants on policy-relevant questions and supports researchers to engage with policy makers and practioners to acheive impact. As of September 2019, 34 grants had been awarded on effective teaching, education in challenging contexts and accountability and a second phase of the programme is planned with a focus on teachers, teaching and girl's education. This programme directly responds to the manifesto commitment on girls' education.
Education Quality Improvement Programme in Bangladesh EQUIP-B
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve the quality of primary and secondary education through needs-based, targeted technical assistance (TA) via Education Quality Improvement Programme in Bangladesh (EQUIP-B). EQUIP-B will contribute to strengthen education system’s efficiency and effectiveness, specifically targeting improved learning outcomes and girls’ retention in primary and secondary education. Major focus areas include improved teachers’ skills and efficiency, learning assessment, girls’ friendly school environment, develop integrated data management system and its use, and evidence-based influencing of policies and programmes.
Scaling Access and Learning in Education (SCALE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SCALE will bring together UK-led expertise, funding, support, and influence to increase the uptake of cost-effective interventions that deliver foundational learning outcomes for all, especially disadvantaged girls and boys. Partner governments will be offered demand-driven support to adapt evidence-based interventions to new contexts and implement rigorous test-learn-adapt pilots to ready these for scaling in national systems. The focus on scale and sustainability will multiply the UK’s investment over time. This will accelerate progress against the UK-led G7 girls’ education objectives on access and learning.
Learning and Inclusion For Transformation (LIFT)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Improved learning outcomes and more equitable access to quality primary education for girls and boys in Rwanda, including those currently out of school and children with disabilities
What Works Hub for Global Education
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The What Works Hub will ensure UK leadership on global education evidence and advice. It will respond to the Ministerial action plan on girls education and the urgent demand from governments for rapid reform to address the learning crisis. The hub will support governments to address the C-19 crisis and build back better to ensure teachers are equiped to deliver skills for the future. Through thought leadership, conveing and provision of global goods it will contribute to the UK target of 50M girls and boys learning with a focus on the most marginalised.
Building Resilience, Inclusion and Diversity through Girls’ Education (BRIDGE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Through a three-year programme, BRIDGE will champion the UK’s commitment for every girl to receive 12 years of quality education, squarely responding to the FCDO’s priorities on Women and Girls. This programme will provide access to quality education for marginalised children, especially girls, and will support learning recovery for 1.6 million host community and refugee children impacted by almost two years of continuous school closures (due to COVID-19). BRIDGE will ensure inclusion is mainstreamed in Jordan’s education system through: supporting access to education; improving quality of education; building societal and economic resilience; and maximising existing UK contributions.
African Cities Research Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Research which will produce new operationally-relevant knowledge and evidence on African ‘cities as systems’. The research will help policy makers and those who manage cities to tackle the most significant problems constraining growth and development in individual African Cities, leading to the development of, and investment in, more effective economic development and poverty-reduction policies and programmes in African cities, by FCDO and its partners.
Support to the Palestinian Authority to Deliver Basic Services, Build Stability and Promote Reform in Palestine
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Palestinian Authority (PA) to meet the needs of the Palestinian people. Funding will enable around 25,000 young Palestinians with access to an education, provide up to 3,700 immunisations for children, and 185,000 medical consultations each year. This will help to build and strengthen the capacity of PA institutions through public financial management reform, and build stability in the region by preserving the two state solution.
Partnership for Learning for All in Nigerian Education - PLANE
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
PLANE programme will support achievement of the UK Aid Strategy’s strategic objectives, particularly in relation to tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable. The programme will also work to strengthen resilience and response to crises, support prosperity in Nigeria and strengthen governance in the education sector. The Programme will benefit up to 2 million children by supporting the Government of Nigeria (GoN) in selected states and non-state partners to improve teaching, school quality, education management and efficient delivery of education. This brings together a short term focus on improving the life chances of Nigeria’s most vulnerable children with medium term goals to support recovery and stability and longer term development goals to improve the overall education system
POF - Pioneer Outcomes Funds
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
A programme to leverage private finance into high performing development projects using Impact Bonds and other pay-for-outcomes models at scale to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. A multi-donor programme to commission development projects effectively and efficiently using new instruments that facilitate better links between financial markets and providers delivering pay-for-success contracts.
Getting children ready to learn and thrive - Research into implementing effective and quality Early Childhood Development at scale
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The THRIVE Early Childhood Development research programme will deliver research on how to implement effective ECD interventions at scale in LMICs. Through an innovative model of research co-designed and aligned to DFID country programmes, THRIVE will support four DFID bilateral programmes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of ECD interventions emdedded in their education and human development programmes, and commission globally-relevant research into optimal ECD service delivery and scale up strategies. Through the proposed COVID-19 pivot, the programme will generate real time evidence on impact of Covid-19 on young children's learning and development, and test at scale innovation on approaches to mitigate the crisis of learning and care. This programme directly responds to the manifesto commitment on girls' education.
Research Secondment and Academic Advisory Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme provides funding and a mechanism to increase access to academic expertise on FCDO's priorities. It will likely include long-term academic secondments into FCDO and establishing a network of academics that work with the department on medium- and short-term commissions.
Syria Education Programme II (SEP II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Syria Education Programme II (SEP-II) will support the most vulnerable girls and boys to access high quality primary education in Northwest Syria. The programme will enhance the equitability of the education system in Northwest Syria, delivering on the UK’s commitments to improve girls’ education.
Data and Research in Education (DARE) programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will address key constraints in Pakistan's education system to enable quality education for all children, particularly for girls and those marginalised by location, ethnicity, religion and disability. On the one hand it will work with the state to the strengthen the education data system. This is crucial for efficient and effective education service delivery by enabling better identification of need, allocation of resources and measurement of progress - particularly for girls. On the other hand, the programme will work with civil society to promote innovative solutions to the challenges identified through better data, and expose these to rigorous research to build evidence on what works.
Educate the Most Disadvantaged Children in Bangladesh
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support 360,000 marginalised children, including 216,000 girls, to gain foundational skills, i.e. literacy, numeracy, socio-emotional and life skills through Educate the Most Disadvantage Children in Bangladesh (EMDC-B) programme. EMDC will focus on the poorest girls and children with disabilities, with the goal of improving system-wide support for all marginalised children.
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