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Second Chance Education and Millions Learning: Evidence

Vocational Learning Program and Innovation to Scale Impact

Of the world’s 750 million illiterate adults, two-thirds are women. This project aims This project is helping inform education decision-makers on how
to provide marginalized women access to quality learning, entrepreneurship and they can support policies and engage in practices that transform
employment outcomes through second-chance education and vocational learning. teaching and learning at scale.

In conflict or humanitarian settings Progress and achievements Innovations around the world are • scale effective approaches through
“We must ensure that every 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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door to the education of girls 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
and women remains open 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
across the life cycle; that girls gender discrimination. This deprives Mexico). Key achievements include: evidence and guidance on needed to solve a global learning opportunities.
and women who drop out them of knowledge, skills and how to identify, adopt, and crisis disproportionately affecting
of education have second opportunities to find decent work • assessing the needs and labour scale educational innovations the world’s most marginalized Progress and achievements
chances; that they have the 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
relevant skills to transition lives and the lives of their families. country to guide the design of in poor households and rural areas, has completed:
to productive lives and full The Second Chance Education country-level SCE Programs and and children impacted by crisis.
citizenship; and that the and Vocational Learning Program the development of Country Plans; While no single country has the • education innovation research to
identify the potential for innovations
empowerment of girls and (SCE) is working to bring about • undertaking initial content mapping answer to how education can
women becomes an inseparable transformative change in the lives at global and country levels and drive social development, there are to “leapfrog”– or rapidly accelerate
part of the return on our of vulnerable women and young sourcing content in line with failures to be shared, lessons to be progress – in global education;
investments in 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,
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Co-Director of the Centre financing, and school quality
Executive Director, for Universal Education, in a systematic and effective way
UN Women The Brookings Institution to inform decision-making; and

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