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British Academy Coherence & Impact - Education and Learning in Crises
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
This programme funds research exploring the challenges of education and learning in contexts of conflict and protracted crises.
Evidence for Development
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence for Development (E4D) programme aims to strengthen the data and evidence ecosystem in Nepal. It focuses on federal, provincial, local government and non-government actors to promote use of data and evidence for more effective and efficient programmes and policies and longer-term strategic portfolio design and management. It also aims to foster a culture of learning in the British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK), among other Development Partners and in the Governments of Nepal.
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.
Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
RISE aims to change the way that leading education policymakers and practitioners understand how education systems work, enabling them to make strategic, prioritised and impactful decisions around education reform. RISE research in seven ODA eligible countries is generating cutting edge evidence on what works at scale to improve learning outcomes for all, including marginalised girls. RISE produces innovative ideas, data and research as global public goods, as well as new tools and approaches (such as system diagnostics) that can be used across multiple low- and middle-income countries with particular impact for developing/ODA eligible countries. RISE's country teams are directly supporting country governments as they reopen education systems following Covid-19 school closures, and RISE have published new research on the long term impacts of such closures. RISE directly delivers on the manifesto commitment on girls' 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.
Better Education STatistics and global Action to improve learning (BESTA).
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To address the global learning crisis in education, this joint policy and research programme will: 1) Establish new global learning indicators, including a new education lead indicator, through support to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), the People's Action for Learning (PAL) network, and other partners working to improve learning and equity data across DFID's focus countries. 2) Improve analysis and use of data on learning and equity, through supporting four more annual Global Education Monitoring Reports. 3) Transform research methods through a partnership with the UK National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) 4) Support emerging global initiatives to tackle other priority barriers to learning
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.
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.
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.
Young Lives At Work, improved understanding of the effect of educational opportunities on labour market outcomes
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This globally respected research programme provides high impact open access and gender dissagregated data on educational access and outcomes, skills and transition to labour markets. Data over 15 years allows us to follow the paths of 12,000 children from early years through adolescence and into early adulthood, gaining valuable insights on educational trajectories and access to higher education and labour market entry.
FCDO Research Commissioning Centre
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
FCDO will establish a new Research Commissioning Centre to introduce streamlined and flexible commissioning options that accelerate research delivery in line with FCDO needs. The programme will embed a new operating model for research based on a strategic partnership between FCDO and the UK academic sector. This will deliver some of the recommendations made in the government's Independent Review of Research Bureaucracy, and bring FCDO’s approach to commissioning research in line with other UK government departments that fund research and the wider UK research sector. This will lead to more efficient, faster and nimble processes for sourcing FCDO mission-driven research, responsive to organisational priorities and needs. The programme will also establish a new centralised digital platform for all FCDO research investments to improve accessibility to FCDO's research granting opportunities and research outputs, and the visibility of results and impacts to an external audience.
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.
Girls Education Challenge (Phase II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This Girls' Education Challenge Phase 2 will enable up to 1 million marginalised girls (currently supported through Phase 1) to continue to learn, complete primary school and transition on to secondary education. A further 500,000 highly marginalised adolescent girls, who are out of school, will also be targeted to gain literacy, numeracy and other skills relevant for life and work. It is estimated that at least 400,000 girls will complete junior secondary school in the first four years of the extension. The extension will build on what we have learnt so far in Phase 1 and further deepen global understanding of what works for girls’ education, particularly during adolescence and in the transition from education to work.
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