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October 30, 2024 | 3 comments

Optimizing data collection, analysis and use in education: Role of the KIX Africa 21 Hub

In French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, high dropout rates and limited access to education are compounded by poor data systems and lack of decision making rooted in evidence. The KIX Africa 21 Hub is working...

October 08, 2024

Making data work for equitable education: contributions from the GPE KIX EMAP Hub

3 conditions to contextualize and apply available data to education policy and practice to effectively transform education systems identified by KIX Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Pacific...

February 01, 2024

Somalia: A better data management system is improving education

Thanks to a GPE-funded program implemented by CARE in partnership with the Somalia Federal Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education, Somalia’s Education Management Information System (EMIS) has...

August 08, 2023 | 2 comments

Unlocking the power of inclusion: The imperative for disability-inclusive data

With learners with disabilities remaining invisible in many education sector plans due to the absence of accurate data about them, producing and using disability-inclusive data appears crucial for making...

July 20, 2023

Helping countries get comparable learning data

The Coalition for Foundational Learning is an initiative bringing together UNICEF, UNESCO, the World Bank, FCDO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These agencies commit to supporting the availability...

June 08, 2023 | 1 comment

How to unleash the power of data to transform education policies

The Data Must Speak Positive Deviance Research identifies schools that perform better than others operating in similar contexts and explores which behaviors and practices make them perform better. The...

April 06, 2023

5 ways Data Must Speak is co-creating education research

Data Must Speak’s team co-creates its research with stakeholders and partners, working together on research design, data collection and analysis, and evidence uptake. But how is this done in practice?...

November 07, 2022

How Sierra Leone is betting on data to fight the impact of climate change on schools

Data can significantly improve decision-making and allow for prioritizing interventions to benefit the most vulnerable populations. That’s why the ministry of Education in Sierra Leone is working with Fab...

October 18, 2022

Measure what matters: Making progress on a common framework to measure learning

We have evidence on the best ways to measure learning, in alignment with SDG 4, which can help ministries of education know where they are making progress and where they need to adjust policies and...