The What Works Hub for Global Education is an international partnership focused on implementing effective education reforms at scale by governments. Its goal is to increase foundational literacy and numeracy skills in low- and middle-income countries.
The What Works Hub for Global Education aims to ensure that evidence on improving learning travels from research into government discussion, on to policy adoption, through to large-scale implementation of reforms, and right into day-to-day classroom implementation by schools and teachers. If this can be achieved, millions of children will have better outcomes.
Strategic partners include the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) – the primary funder; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the World Bank; UNICEF; UNESCO-IIEP; the Learning Generation Initiative; the British Council; the Jacobs Foundation; and the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
The What Works Hub for Global Education mainly works under the following pillars:
Pillar 1: Help make the best existing evidence clear and available to governments so they can use it immediately.
Pillar 2: Support governments' use of evidence for bold reform through embedded evidence labs, and by building and nurturing networks of government, researchers and practitioners.
Pillar 3: Generate a new field of implementation science in education, which will leverage existing research on what policies work to understand how they should be implemented in practice, at the scale necessary for transformative outcomes.
In Nepal this financial year, our What Works Hub for Global Education Work will prioritise policy dialogues at both the federal and provincial levels to promote the development of contextually relevant, evidence-informed education policies. In parallel, we will strengthen the capacity of local governments in Lumbini and Madhesh Province to engage in data-driven education planning, using existing system data and participatory processes to inform inclusive and actionable local education plans.