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Education, Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM)
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Using innovative practices for teaching and learning about Pakistan's violent past, in order to promote a culture of peace and non-violence. Benefits teachers, artists, community educators and museums. With secondary benefits to Cambodia, Colombia & Uganda. SDGs: 4,16,17
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.
Learning and Inclusion For Transformation (LIFT)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Improved learning outcomes and more equitable access to primary and girls in school and out of school including girls with disability in Rwanda
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shule Bora - Quality Education
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
A national education programme to improve the quality of pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. The programme will improve learning outcomes for all children, improve transition rates to secondary school for girls, reduce physical and sexual violence in and around schools, and help children with disabilities access quality education. The programme will work with the Government of Tanzania on achieving these outcomes through a payment-by-results mechanism, supported by technical assistance. The programme will also directly deliver innovative approaches to improving education quality in 9 regions of Tanzania through a contracted Managing Agent, alongside ongoing evaluation and learning.
Support to the Palestinian Authority to Deliver Basic Services, Build Stability and Promote Reform in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (SSRP)
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.
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 DFID and its partners.
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.
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.
Strengthening Malawi’s Education System
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to improve the quality of education service delivery in Malawi so more girls and boys successfully progress through and complete primary school with measureable improvements in learning outcomes. This will contribute towards the UK’s efforts to support human capital development so more Malawians have the foundations and skills to fulfil their potential and contribute towards national development.
The Evidence Fund - 300708
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence Fund procures and manages research and evaluations that primarily benefit ODA eligible countries. Most research and evaluations paid for by the Evidence Fund are country-specific, and all respond to requests for evidence to inform programme or policy decisions. Primarily serving research requests from HMG’s Embassies and High Commissions in ODA eligible countries, and from HMG policy and strategy teams, the Evidence Fund strengthens the evidence behind the UK’s priority international development investments and development diplomacy. The Evidence Fund also invests modest amounts of non-ODA, to strengthen the evidence behind wider UK foreign policy.
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.
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.
"Girls and Out of School Children: Action for Learning (GOAL)".
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Girls and Out of School Children: Action for Learning (GOAL) programme will support the Governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to improve education outcomes for girls and the most marginalised, directly contributing to FCDO’s global commitments to girls’ education on access and learning.
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.
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