The e!quality project aims to address the paradox of high enrollment rate with low levels of quality and equality in education in Bangladesh. In this video the alliance presents the partners and how they work to create change.

Last year the GPE secretariat launched a Mid Term Review of the Education Out Loud programme to be carried out by two external consultants. As grant agent Oxfam Denmark is happy to share the report which has just been released. The review had two objectives:

In Burundi, Ornella, an 18-year-old girl is struggling to stay in school. Ornella’s father, the only person who could legally register her birth, never did and died before he could provide the necessary administrative documents to his daughter.

Creating broad and active sector dialogue and aligning interests, resources and capabilities require civil society actors to find new ways of working in collaboration and new learning modalities. The following examples show how civil society organizations (CSOs) are seeking to achieve those.

The Education Out Loud Progress Report covering the period 1. July – 31. December 2021 is now available. Read and download it here.

Insufficient overall revenue to fund public services means that lower-income countries, even those that commit a high share of their national budgets to education, are not on track to meet their Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 commitments. Many education systems face a devastating crisis in public financing and uncertainty over the quality of learning available when children can return to schools because of years of austerity policies exacerbated by the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the Philippines, the COVID-19 exacerbated existing challenges in the country’s education governance. Learn how the EOL partners behind the MultiplY-Ed Project, work to address these challenges.

In mid-2021 the GPE secretariat carried out a Rapid Review of EOL support to National Education Coalitions (OC1). The report by an external consultant was submitted to GPE in August last year and gave a positive assessment of efforts and results of Oxfam Denmark´s role as grant agent and the first two years of efforts and results during EOL implementation.

You can find the full report here (summary available in French and Spanish)

Did you miss the webinar on Education in Emergencies?
On april 27th our colleague ASPBAE hosted a both instructive and inspiring webinar on how to protect Education in Emergencies - with overview of the challenges, good practives, approaches and lessons learned from the Asia Pacific Region.
Watch the full event here. https://youtu.be/0lw2PTaIOuQ

Five civil society organisations and their partners have been selected for grants from Education Out Loud to support civil society’s role in promoting the transparency and accountability of national education sector policy and implementation.