Through the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE), Dubai Cares, Echidna Giving, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The MasterCard Foundation, and an anonymous donor announced the fourth PSIPSE call for proposals with a geographic focus on Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.
The call for proposals announced today will lead to funding in 2017 in support of projects that pilot innovations, expand and adapt successful models, inspire collaborations and research critical questions about how to improve quality in secondary education while aiming to create systemic change in this sector at the local or national level. Projects are expected to apply innovative approaches that enable teachers to better act as facilitators of learning, improve adolescents' learning outcomes, and promote 21st century employment-relevant skills.
"The
world has made impressive strides in providing primary education to
children Worldide. However, without opportunities for secondary
education, children have little chance to improve their livelihoods, and
the progress made at primary level could be jeopardized. Through this
call for proposals by PSIPSE, we aspire to foster novel approaches to
gain ground in the quest for quality secondary education".
-Tareq Al Gura, Chief Executive Officer at Dubai Cares
The
PSIPSE was formed in 2012 on the proven premise that quality secondary
school education is measurably associated with positive effects on
health, well-being and productivity of youth. Yet secondary education
and quality relevant learning experiences for secondary school aged
youth remain scarce in the developing world, particularly for
marginalized girls.
Since
the 2015 announcement of grants, the PSIPSE has focused on an
overarching Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning framework that will
help the PSIPSE better understand the impact of its interventions and
ensure that its future grantmaking builds on evidence from the portfolio
of 58 projects in 8 countries for which PSIPSE has provided of over $50
million in funding to date.
To
accelerate learning and sharing, the PSIPSE convened a meeting of
grantees in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in June, 2016. This was the second
convening of PSIPSE grantees in East Africa, the first taking place in
Nairobi, Kenya in 2014.
The meeting aimed to give grantees an
opportunity to share successes, challenges and lessons learned in the
implementation of their PSIPSE funded projects in the representative
countries; to build relationships and network with key stakeholders who
are involved in implementing secondary education programs in the region;
and to explore opportunities for collaboration and peer-to-peer
networking among PSIPSE grantees. The convening also provided a space to
engage with policy makers from PSIPSE focus countries and participate
in technical workshops on communication, scaling-up and monitoring and
evaluation.
Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) on behalf of The MasterCard Foundation.
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