Ticking The Right Boxes: How Can We Better Measure Education For Good?
Co-authored by Ameena Hussain, Audrey Giacomini, Thana El-Sallabi, Chelsea Waite, Rebecca Warren, Jaya Ramchandani, and Shaun McInerney. Changes in education are taking place in response to the deepening challenges we see in the world: social division, accelerated globalization, ecological emergency, technological advancement, and increased knowledge in neurosciences. Job markets are less predictable and the economy is less stable. For young people today, […]
Championing Girls’ Education and Health with Malaika and the Global Fund
Working with girls is deeply personal to me. Alongside a dedicated team, we founded Malaika in 2007 as a grassroots nonprofit whose mission is to empower girls and communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through education and health programs. Malaika believes in the enormous potential of the Congolese people to bring about […]
Tackling Youth Unemployment with 21st Century Skills
In 2017, a science teacher at Happy Days Primary and Nursery School in Najjera, Uganda, a town on the outskirts of Kampala, noticed that a large number of her students were missing school due to typhoid. She taught her students about the importance of handwashing in disease prevention but when they asked the school administration […]
The Future of Africa’s Education is in the Hands of African Youth
In 1993, I was a second-grade student at St Paul’s Primary School, one of the top-ranked schools in northern Ghana. I remember clearly the unpainted and overcrowded classroom with limited resources as well as the fact that our teachers rarely showed up. The 2016 USAID report on Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) shows that […]
Leaving No One Behind: Empowering Women Through Education
Sustainable development begins with education which holds the key to achieving most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from healthy families to sustainable communities and peaceful societies. To achieve SDG 5 for gender equality and women’s empowerment we need first and foremost invest our effort in ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting […]