Education Out Loud

The Global Partnership for Education’s fund for advocacy and social accountability aims to address the learning crisis, across four countries in Southern Africa. Learning crisis refers to low levels of literacy and numeracy, and inequitable learning outcomes. This is a collaborative effort involving an alliance of Global Integrity, Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM), Stimulus Africa, Center for Civil Society Learning and Capacity Building (Mozambique), Policy Forum (Tanzania), Forum for African Women Educationalists (Malawi), and Teach for Zimbabwe.  Our aim is to shift and improve the dynamics of education-focused systems so that they drive progress towards improved and equitable learning outcomes. We will do this in two interconnected ways. First, by supporting country-level efforts to strengthen the diversity and improve the dynamics of networks of actors focused on the design and implementation of education policies. Second, by supporting national actors’ engagement in the transnational spaces where many discussions and decisions about education policy, financing, and practice take place, to ensure that such decisions are better aligned with countries’ needs. To drive progress at country level and with regards to transnational engagement, we will support problem-focused cycles of action and learning which enable actors to find the best way forward as they navigate the complex challenges they face. TFZ and its other alliance members have been selected as the qualifiers for this grant.