Millions of young people around the world continue to be excluded from formal education due to poverty, conflict, disability, gender inequality, and displacement—factors that reinforce cycles of marginalization and limit access to equal opportunities and poverty reduction.
At Link global family of organizations (Link Community Development Malawi, Link Community Development Uganda, Link Education International and Link Education Ethiopia), our low-cost, scalable innovations have supported national governments in providing education-focused pathways to empowerment, skills development, and meaningful economic and social participation.
To deepen understanding of how national governments can successfully adopt and scale such innovations, we have completed a baseline study under the Global Partnership for Education – Knowledge Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) a joint endeavor with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. We seek to understand why promising education innovations in gender equality, inclusion, and safeguarding may not be scaled up effectively in sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia). Through this project we aim to generate actionable evidence that informs policy and practice on scale-up.
Through this study we uncover barriers and opportunities for scaling impactful education interventions that leave no learner behind. We invite you and specifically those working in community development—targeting government-level scale-up to your innovation—to engage with our study findings.
With thanks to our research partners The Centre for Educational Research and Training (CERT) of University of Malawi – UNIMA, University of Glasgow School of Education, University of Glasgow, Global Partnership for Education, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)