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Country Partner - Kenya
In partnership with Kenya’s Ministry of Education since 2020, our synthesis, insights, and professional development programme are contributing to new evidence-led commitments to implement the most critical insights from Education.org's synthesis on Accelerated Education Programmes, including:
- Increasing the inclusion and weight of evidence throughout Kenya’s Guidelines for Accelerated Learning, and is setting a precedent for its next plans and policies;
- For the first time, Kenya’s next National Education Plan (2023-2026) will address out-of-school children;
- The curriculum and calendar for accelerated education will be aligned to the basic system, to avoid disparities in learning; and
- Kenya’s National Council for Nomadic Education (NACONEK) has committed to fast-track its development for catch up learning.
Lessons so far from our Country Partnership
It takes a champion to get the ball rolling, but a team of champions is needed to keep it rolling
It takes a champion to get the ball rolling, but a team of champions is needed to keep it rolling
It takes a champion to get the ball rolling, but a team of champions is needed to keep it rolling
This work could be seen as threatening the status quo, and having a strong Minister or Deputy invite this work and communicate that to colleagues is critically important. In Kenya, our fist champion was the Director General for Education. To mitigate the risk associated with turnover of elected officials and political appointees, we craft a Technical Team and a Steering Committee from a mix of appointees and technical bureaucrats who tend to change far less frequently.
Every plan starts with a solid diagnostic
It takes a champion to get the ball rolling, but a team of champions is needed to keep it rolling
It takes a champion to get the ball rolling, but a team of champions is needed to keep it rolling
A thorough stock-taking of a Ministry of Education’s know-how, bandwidth, tools, infrastructure and culture forms the foundation of a partnership action plan and goals. It is also valuable to understand the political economy surrounding evidence use in different settings. In Kenya, we conducted interviews and desk analysis and validated the resulting plan with key ministerial staff.
Partnership work must be embedded in daily business for sustainability from the start
It takes a champion to get the ball rolling, but a team of champions is needed to keep it rolling
Partnership work must be embedded in daily business for sustainability from the start
All too often, evidence is considered a side project, something that comes on top of routine obligations, often as part of a donor initiative, and falls away when external support wanes. By working within existing policy processes, with the people who own those processes, lasting improvements can be made. In Kenya, this lesson was reflected in our work with accelerated education and now the National Education Sector Plan.
Hurry up, slowly!
Look to domestic mechanisms for synergy and complementarity
Partnership work must be embedded in daily business for sustainability from the start
Education leaders face a constant barrage of fires to put out. Despite authentic interest in long-term change, day-to-day business takes over time and other resources.
We overcome this inertia by focusing our interaction and support on a 'key urgency' for the Ministry. In Kenya, our entry point was post-COVID learning, and as a result of our proven expertise and added value, we were requested to facilitate the Ministry’s technical working group of NGOs and agencies with our analysis.
Look to domestic mechanisms for synergy and complementarity
Look to domestic mechanisms for synergy and complementarity
Look to domestic mechanisms for synergy and complementarity
Most countries have local practioners and researchers having a high interest in improving their education systems, but few have a productive purpose-driven collaboration with their national ministries. We can strengthen evidence-informed decision making at scale by including and elevating these local groups. In Kenya, this is the network behind the Education Evidence for Action coalition.
Use classic management consulting tools
Look to domestic mechanisms for synergy and complementarity
Look to domestic mechanisms for synergy and complementarity
While common in management consulting, tools like hypothesis-driven problem solving, issue tree analysis and scenario modelling are very important evidence-dependent decision making tools rarely used in our sector.
Education.org in Action
Accelerated Learning: the key to COVID catch-up?
Accelerated education key to addressing learning loss from Covid-19 pandemic school closures
Accelerated education key to addressing learning loss from Covid-19 pandemic school closures
Opinion blog written by Dr. Randa Grob-Zakhary, CEO & Founder of Education.org and Dr, Elyas Abdi of the Kenyan Ministry of Education discussing the need to think flexibly and embrace alternative teaching and learning approaches to reach all children.
GPE, October 2022
Accelerated education key to addressing learning loss from Covid-19 pandemic school closures
Accelerated education key to addressing learning loss from Covid-19 pandemic school closures
Accelerated education key to addressing learning loss from Covid-19 pandemic school closures
Interview article with Dr. Randa Grob-Zakhary,CEO & Founder of Education.org covering accelerated learning as an approach that’s been pioneered across Africa, including in Kenya, over the past decade to get out-of-school kids into education.
The Standard Kenya, October 2022
Education.org & Kenyan Partners
