How we work
We combine evidence with expertise to help governments go further, faster. By connecting global research with locally generated insights from frontline implementers, we help education leaders expand access and improve learning for the hardest-to-reach children and youth.
Around the world, 7 in 10 children can’t read a simple sentence by age 10 — and in Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s 9 in 10. This is not only a learning crisis, but a response crisis. In many cases, we already know what works — but that knowledge isn’t reaching the people shaping education systems.
At the heart of this challenge is a simple but solvable problem: valuable evidence isn’t being used.
Roughly 80% of education evidence goes unpublished — including critical insights from NGOs, governments, funders, and local actors. Even when published, it’s often too technical, too delayed, or misaligned with real-world decision-making. Insights from classrooms, community programs, and evaluation reports remain disconnected from the decisions that matter most.
Our solution is a high-impact model designed to close the gap between knowledge and action.
Using our LIFTED method, we identify, appraise, and translate large volumes of evidence — especially unpublished and locally grounded sources — into actionable insights that can be contextualized at national and subnational levels.
By purposefully including non-academic evidence we are able to connect and amplify the work of local researchers, implementers and policy makers that is so often hidden, and yet, contains valuable insights.
By expanding what counts as evidence, we make better use of what already exists and strengthen capacity to use it.
This is a model of direct service coupled with systemic change. We act as a catalytic connector - working hands-on with ministries, implementers, and funders to embed evidence into real decisions, while building the infrastructure, tools, and partnerships that allow systems to continuously improve over time.
By avoiding duplication and building on what already exists, we create the most effective pathway to impact.
This work has never been more urgent. With shrinking aid and constrained public budgets, systems are under pressure to do more with less. Scarce resources must be guided by the best available learning. We can’t afford to keep reinventing solutions in every context. We must learn faster — and apply what works across systems. This is how we build systems that learn faster, adapt better, and reach further. And how we ensure the children who’ve been last in line are finally the first to benefit.
Dr Randa Grob-Zakhary, Founder & CEO, Education.org
In their words
By together identifying solutions and building the capacity to tackle the identified challenges more effectively with evidence, Education.org is helping us to stand on our feet… This is different from all other partners, who tell you: ‘This is the water; drink it’.
Elizabeth Otieno, Deputy Director of Policy, Ministry of Education, Kenya
Our Ministry is committed to making decisions based on the best evidence. Accelerated Education can help out-of-school children learn and progress, and now we have guidelines to ensure the quality of these programmes, based on independent analysis and guidance from Education.org. There is no other actor in our sector providing this type of support.
Hon. Conrad Sackey Minister for Basic Education, Government of Sierra Leone
