Country Partner - Sierra Leone

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Education.org worked with the Ministry of Education of Sierra Leone to develop evidence-based guidelines for Accelerated Education Programmes (AEPs), based on our AEPs synthesis.  

To ensure a shared understanding of implementation, measurement, and adaptation mechanisms, the guidelines were developed in collaboration with key stakeholders responsible for validating, applying, and evaluating the guidelines, and who played a crucial role in shaping the creation of guidelines for their trial. In particular, we worked closely with the country’s Chief Education Officer and her team to ensure our insights were effectively contextualised, additional local insights incorporated, and a broad range of stakeholders engaged at the regional and national level to enable policy development and uptake.  

20 organisations provided expert input on the guidelines to ensure their robustness and relevance to the local context  

4 ministries were consulted one-on-one on the guidelines, including: the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education, as well as the Ministry of Gender and Children Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs, and Ministry of Health  

12 local government authorities provided inputs on the guidelines to ensure their responsiveness to barriers and opportunities of decentralised education processes.