Country Partner - Sierra Leone

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In October 2022 Education.org signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) to support its National Education Sector Plan 2022 – 2026 by: 

1. Strengthening the Ministry's practices and capabilities to mainstream the regular use of evidence in decision making to inform decisions and practices, including but not limited to Accelerated Education and Out of School Children and Youth.
2. Through increased evidence mobilisation and use, improving equity and learning outcomes in basic education, with a focus on increasing access to learning for the most marginalised learners (for example, pregnant girls, refugees, internally displaced persons, and learners with learning differences or disabilities or from impoverished communities). 

Through this official partnership, Education.org will: 

• Provide technical support and facilitate Ministry capacity building for the translation of evidence into action, developing targeted improvements to the Ministry's infrastructure and processes to better enable evidence-informed decision-making for policy making and implementation. 
• Support and enhance linkages and engagement of traditional academic and non-traditional expertise (such as evidence specialists, communications scientists, and the private sector) to improve the quality of sector planning, reviews and policy and reform processes.  
• Make global education knowledge relevant to Sierra Leonean contexts available to the Ministry; and elevate locally-generated evidence and experiences into the global education discourse, with the close partnership of civil society actors and academic leaders.  
• Foster and support learning exchanges with other contextually relevant countries. 
• Develop and share case examples, as relevant, from the partnership.