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Second Chance Education and
Vocational Learning Program
Of the world’s 750 million illiterate adults, two-thirds are women. This project aims
to provide marginalized women access to quality learning, entrepreneurship and
employment outcomes through second-chance education and vocational learning.
“We must ensure that every
door to the education of girls
and women remains open
across the life cycle; that girls
and women who drop out
of education have second
chances; that they have the
relevant skills to transition
to productive lives and full
citizenship; and that the
empowerment of girls and
women becomes an inseparable
part of the return on our
investments in education.”
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Executive Director,
UN Women
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Millions Learning: Evidence
and Innovation to Scale Impact
This project is helping inform education decision-makers on how
they can support policies and engage in practices that transform
teaching and learning at scale.
In conflict or humanitarian settings Progress and achievements Innovations around the world are • scale effective approaches through
girls are 2.5 times more likely to be out The project commenced in 2018 with “ There is a high demand making an enormous difference in understanding the political and
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of school and less likely to return to a focus on six pilot countries (Australia, among education stakeholders children’s learning yet these are not technical strategies required
school due to burden of care work and Cameroon, Chile, India, Jordan, and decision-makers for translating to the systemic change to rapidly scale quality learning
gender discrimination. This deprives Mexico). Key achievements include: evidence and guidance on needed to solve a global learning opportunities.
them of knowledge, skills and how to identify, adopt, and crisis disproportionately affecting
opportunities to find decent work • assessing the needs and labour scale educational innovations the world’s most marginalized Progress and achievements
and improve the quality of their market opportunities of each pilot effectively and sustainably.” populations – girls, children living Over the past 12 months, the project
lives and the lives of their families. country to guide the design of in poor households and rural areas, has completed:
The Second Chance Education country-level SCE Programs and and children impacted by crisis.
and Vocational Learning Program the development of Country Plans; While no single country has the • education innovation research to
identify the potential for innovations
(SCE) is working to bring about • undertaking initial content mapping answer to how education can
transformative change in the lives at global and country levels and drive social development, there are to “leapfrog”– or rapidly accelerate
of vulnerable women and young sourcing content in line with failures to be shared, lessons to be progress – in global education;
women, by breaking down the barriers each of the expected pathways – learned and promising practices • research examining data-informed
to participation in education and foundational (learn to learn); life skills to be implemented across borders. decision-making in education to
identify the types of data needed, as
employment. The project leverages (learn to be); leadership (learn to The question is: what information do well as the approaches for collecting
technology to ensure greater access lead) and job skills (learn to earn); decision makers really need to analyze
to learning, employment and • developing an online portal; and which practices will work in particular and utilizing data effectively to
achieve education outcomes; and
entrepreneurship opportunities. This • negotiated formal agreements with contexts and how to scale them?
project also seeks gender-balance implementing partners, government The Center for Universal Education • the launch of Real-time Scaling Labs
policy and fiscal changes at local and and NGOs to provide safe spaces for (CUE) at Brookings project is focused in Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Jordan,
national levels to create an enabling the delivery of face-to-face learning. on three strategies: Tanzania, and the United States
environment for long-lasting change. (city of Philadelphia).
• identify effective education
innovations that have the potential
Rebecca Winthrop to transform education progress;
Senior Fellow and • analyze and use data on learning,
Co-Director of the Centre financing, and school quality
for Universal Education, in a systematic and effective way
The Brookings Institution to inform decision-making; and
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