Jacobs Foundation joins What Works Hub for Global Education

The Jacobs Foundation has joined the What Works Hub for Global Education as a ‘Strategic Partner’ to embed grounded evidence and field research in government strategies to successfully deliver education reforms globally.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Jacobs Foundation and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will see both organizations work together to improve foundational learning for children through the What Works Hub for Global Education Program, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and housed at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. The partnership will strengthen local evidence education ecosystems, including Education Evidence Labs (EdLabs), fundamental to long-lasting, sustainable change.

Joining this community illustrates our determination to work with all actors equally committed to better education outcomes. We believe that evidence should sit at the heart of policy and practice, and we share this vision with many others in the What Works Hub for Global Education community. Foundations act as the backbone for supporting governments to foster innovation in education. Through this partnership, we will continue to inspire others on how science can inform policy and practice, leading to better learning environments and ultimately better outcomes for all children.

Donika Dimovska, Chief Knowledge Officer

Donika Dimovska, Chief Knowledge Officer

The Hub’s mission is to increase literacy, numeracy, and other key skills in low- and middle-income countries, and its work will be undertaken in four primary countries to begin with, namely India, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Another country where further work will be conducted is Ghana, which is one of the core geographies of the Jacobs Foundation. The foundation has supported the Ministry of Education in developing an EdLab in Ghana.

The consortium brings together a unique mix of world-leading academics, civil society organizations, philanthropies, foundations, and government agencies from low-, middle-, and high-income countries to achieve better learning outcomes across the world. These collective efforts will directly affect up to 3 million children and reach a further 17 million through the consortium’s global influence.

The Jacobs Foundation will contribute evidence-based research and insight to the consortium, drawing on its experience as a partner to public, private, and third-sector actors across Europe, Africa, and South America.

For further information, visit www.wwhge.org.