BE² January 2025 Newsletter

• New GPE KIX projects on education system resilience – The Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) is launching the GPE KIX Observatory on Education System Resilience initiative. The main objective of the initiative is for GPE partner countries to have and use research and evidence to make their education systems more resilient and better prepared for future disruptions. GPE KIX selected implementing partners to run six regional observatories: one in Latin America and the Caribbean, one in East, West, Central, and Southern Africa, and four in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Learn more
• The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) held the 5th Annual Global Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) Symposium on 16 – 17 December, 2024, online from 07:00 – 10:00 AM EST. Themes covered include: Out-of-School Children and Youth, Data Systems and Data Use, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, and Teacher Professional Development. Learn more

Useful resources

Reports and Papers

• Cost-Effectiveness Position Paper – USAID
• Education Finance Watch 2024 – The World Bank
• GPE 2025 Strategic Plan – Global Partnership for Education
• IIEP competency framework for educational planning and management – UNESCO IIEP
• Integrating “School in-service teacher mentorship and support” project principles into the national curriculum in Zambia – GPE KIX
• Investing in Early Learners – USAID
• Leadership in education: lead for learning – UNESCO
• Making Digital Learning Work – UNICEF Innocenti
• Raising the quality of early childhood education and care – UNICEF
• Refugee Education – UNHCR