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September 2020 marked the deadline for the second and last round of applications for Education Out Loud’s Operational Component 3. The assessment of proposals began immediately after the deadline and is currently in process. In this announcement you can read more about the assessment process.
By June, Education Out Loud had received an amazing 461 applications from civil society organizations wanting to work with EOL in creating a conducive space for education in their home countries. Ten applicants from this call will be awarded a grant and all will be invited to the EOL network for inspiration and knowledge sharing.
At the heart of the COVID-19-pandemic in Latin America, children are suffering a rampant loss of learning. EOL and partners are striving to mitigate the consequences of school closures by developing and advocating solutions to meet local and national needs.
In early 2020, 54 National Coalitions from 54 different nations were each awarded a grant from Education Out Loud. The Coalitions had earlier received grants from the Civil Society Education Fund under Global Partnership for Education and are continuing their efforts in strengthening civil society engagement in education planning, policy dialogue and monitoring at a national level.
In April Education Out Loud launched our first call for concept notes on Operational Component 2 supporting civil society roles in promoting the transparency and accountability of national education sector policy and implementation.
Note: Final decisions regarding OC2 have been communicated to applicants.
Ten grant applications have been shortlisted by Education Out Loud to support transnational civil society alliances in carrying out innovative multi-country advocacy. Shortlisted applicants will spend up to four months to develop a full proposal, which will be reviewed and approved before the end of the year.
Every six months a Technical Progress Report is submitted to GPE. The first report covers all of the active months last year April – December 2019.
E-Net is one of the education advocacy coalitions awarded with one of the first EOL grants. It unites the forces of organizations and groups working to secure protection and education for all Philippine children and youth.
COSYDEP is the national coalition for advocacy on education in Senegal. They are supported by Education Out Loud to change the fact that Senegalese children are among those in world to benefit the least from education.
Unfortunately, there is a huge gap between the countries´ international legal commitments to provide universal free and quality education and the reality of ensuring such quality education for all. This is where Civil Society plays a crucial role.
Achieving good quality in education and ensuring access also to marginalized groups has proven to be a challenge in the strive to secure education for all. EOL is set up to support CSO’s who can mobilize communities and provide innovative solutions to meet these challenges
The success of this new fund tops our wish list for the New Year: it has the potential to spark a 21st century campaign for learning equity - a campaign that re-establishes government and intergovernmental accountability for the right to education; and that inspires citizens, everywhere, to realize their right to learn.