Evidence use in decision-making

Millions of out-of-school children and youth (OOSCY) are returning to learning through Accelerated Education Programmes (AEPs) but are lost in the transition to formal school. Transition challenges are specific, predictable and preventable. This guidance provides education system leaders with strategies for successful transitions.

The lack of access to diverse, high-quality educational evidence—particularly localised research and non-academic insights, published and unpublished—perpetuates systemic inequities in education policymaking and practice. Despite recent efforts to localise research agendas in the field of education and international development, methodological and practical challenges hinder equity...

The gap between what we know and what we do in education lies at the heart of a global learning crisis. This Education.org white paper argues that it is not the lack of new research that is the greatest obstacle to progress, but the failure to use what we already know.