Let us learn — Research brief
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The 'Let Us Learn' initiative aims to improve educational access for the most vulnerable children in five countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Liberia, Madagascar, and Nepal) who are often out of school. By employing innovative measures and mixed methods research, the project seeks to identify effective strategies for supporting learning from early childhood through vocational training. The initiative focuses on boosting retention, access, and overall educational outcomes in severely marginalized communities, partnering with UNICEF for evidence-based decision-making.
Let us learn — Research brief
- 1. PROJECT BRIEF Let Us Learn How do you deliver quality learning to the most vulnerable and hardest to reach children?
- 2. Overview While access to education has expanded greatly in the last two decades, for many of the hardest to reach children around the world access to learning remains largely out of reach. In 2019, over 258 million children were out of school and an additional 175 million young children were left out of preprimary education.The Let Us Learn initiative aims to pilot test innovative and effective measures to deliver and improve learning for vulnerable children in five countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Liberia, Madagascar and Nepal. Let Us Learn programmes provide support across the education lifecycle, from early childhood education to primary, through secondary and vocational training. Programmes are targeted to the hardest to reach communities to provide learning pathways to out of school children and support to children at risk of dropping out. Approach The Let Us Learn project undertakes mixed methods research to build evidence on what works across the ‘education lifecycle’, to uncover critical strategies to deliver quality education in the most marginalized communities. In the pre-primary years Let Us Learn works on expanding opportunities in hard-to-reach rural areas. Measures for expansion of flexible learning systems for out of school children are being tested to bring children back into a learning pathway, especially for girls, at-risk children transitioning to secondary school, and vulnerable children from hard-to-reach areas. We are exploring measures to improve system strengthening with a focus on educational outcomes for the most marginalized. VocationalTraining and skills development programmes provide out of school adolescents with job-specific life skills through on-the-job training and instruction. Let Us Learn tackles bottlenecks within national education systems to boost retention, access, teacher quality and early grade learning. Goal Working in partnership with UNICEF education teams at global and national level the Let Us Learn project seeks to embed research into project supported programmes to strengthen evidence-ba- sed decision-making in severely vulnerable education settings. Project Highlights Let Us Learn (2021) We are building evidence on accelerated learning, catch up and remedial program- mes to understand what works to bring vulnerable children onto a learning pathway. Research in each participating country (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Liberia, Madagascar and Nepal) will culminate in country-specific research briefs and a cross-country research report exploring the innovations these programmes undertook in order to bring learning to the most vulnerable children. PROJECT BRIEF Contact Info Thomas Dreesen Education Manager tdreesen@unicef.org Marco Valenza Education Research Associate mavalenza@unicef.org