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How to apply Smart Buy's evidence in country education investment decisions
Webinar organized by: FCDO, The World Bank
How to apply Smart Buys evidence in country education investment decisions? Webinar organized by: FCDO, The World Bank
This event focused on sharing lessons on the implementation and contextualization of Smart Buys evidence at country level by the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP). Kwame Akyeampong from The Open University and GEEAP co-chair facilitated the conversation and introduced the Smart Buys. Rachel Glennerster the Chief Economist at the FCDO, Thomas Dreesen from the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and Halsey Rogers from the World Bank provided a deeper dive into the findings of the Smart Buys report. Noam Angrist from the World Bank, Oxford and Yong 1ove introduced a country contextualization approach, while Moitshepi Matsheng from Young 1ove and Chairperson of the Botswana National Youth Council shared a real world example of this contextualization process from Botswana.
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A global learning crisis is undermining children’s education and their futures. Pre-COVID, more than half of children in low- and middle-income countries could not read and understand a simple text by age 10. In poor countries, this “learning poverty” rate was as high as 80 percent. Due to COVID-19, an additional 10 percent of children globally will fall into learning poverty. UNICEF Innocenti’s education research looks to address the learning crisis to ensure that every child learns.