How Education Out loud works
Education Out Loud works with civil society organizations in more than 60 countries, funding activities across 5 areas:
- Policy dialogue: Participation in education planning and policy dialogue.
- Public engagement: Social mobilization, communications and campaigns supporting education.
- Data and transparency: Development of tools for accountability and tracking of public education budgets and program implementation.
- Analysis: Research on education challenges and policy implementation.
- Strengthening civic capacity: Support to build capacities and enhance collaboration at national and regional levels.
- Knowledge production: Conduct and share research to learn from funded activities.
Results
Since 2019, grantees have contributed to 90 national policy changes in 34 countries towards human rights-based approaches to education.
- In Mongolia, the national education coalition, with support from the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Education, advocated for improved and more equal budgeting for education, producing a study “Barriers to Education for Certain Groups of Children” in 2020. In 2022, the government approved a resolution increasing education budget allocations and incentives for including children with disabilities in schools.
- The Lesotho Council of NGOs (LCN) has successfully engaged in education dialogue and planning with GPE support by assuming the role of coordinating agency in the country. This new role allowed LCN to gain experience and to support initiatives to strengthen government capacity, demonstrating the critical role of civil society in localizing education governance and enhancing accountability.
Grants
Education Out Loud provides grants under three components. The types of grants, list of projects and related information are available on the Education Out Loud website and respective country pages.
Learning from experience
Education Out Loud invests heavily in learning with partners.
- Grantees benefit from continuous learning opportunities through webinars and peer groups. Each grantee establishes learning goals and creates a plan to guide the capacity support and learning opportunities over the lifetime of the grant. Global and regional partners – organizations with expertise, training approaches and mentoring skills – support the grantees.
- Four renowned organizations are carrying out research across the grant portfolio to inform the practices of grantees and share knowledge:
- Institute of Development Studies
- National Foundation for Education Research
- Right to Education Initiative
- University of Minnesota
The Civil Society Education Fund
From 2009 to 2019, GPE supported the advocacy activities of national and regional civil society education coalitions in lower-income countries through the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF), managed by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), UNESCO and the World Bank.
Over these years, the CSEF gave grants to coalitions in 62 countries, representing a total investment of US$75.4 million. The grants supported coalitions’ strengthened capacities, cross-country learning and networking, and advocacy.
The experience of the CSEF and feedback from partners were instrumental in the design and creation of Education Out Loud.
Learn more
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