LiftEd, India

Creating systemic change to deliver foundational literacy and numeracy outcomes across India.

  • LiftEd

  • British Asian Trust

  • Kaivalya Education Foundation

  • Language and Learning Foundation

  • Peepul

  • Pratham Education Foundation

  • Location

    India (five states)

  • Launch

    Feb 2024

  • Area

    Education & Employment

Collaborators & funding partners

  • British Asian Trust

  • Michael and Susan Dell Foundation

  • Atlassian Foundation

  • Maitri Trust

  • Reliance Foundation

  • Standard Chartered Bank

  • USAID

  • UBS Optimus Foundation

  • Central Square Foundation

  • Dalberg Advisors

Delivery Partners

  • Kaivalya Education Foundation

  • Peepul

  • Language and Learning Foundation

  • Pratham Education Foundation

Team

Collaborators & funding partners

  • British Asian Trust

  • Michael and Susan Dell Foundation

  • Atlassian Foundation

  • Maitri Trust

  • Reliance Foundation

  • Standard Chartered Bank

  • USAID

  • UBS Optimus Foundation

  • Central Square Foundation

  • Dalberg Advisors

Delivery Partners

  • Kaivalya Education Foundation

  • Peepul

  • Language and Learning Foundation

  • Pratham Education Foundation

  • Mila Lukic

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    Mila founded and leads Bridges Outcomes Partnerships (BOP). At BOP, we work to radically improve human services and environmental initiatives to improve outcomes for people and value for society. Programmes BOP supports are dedicated to empowering people across the world to improve their lives, in areas ranging from education and wellbeing to housing, child protection, employment and environmental protection. Mila is on boards of Positive Families Partnership, Stronger Families, Forward, North East Lincolnshire Thrive, Ways to Wellness, Education Outcomes Partnerships, along with other family, employment, and refugee support focused programmes.

    Mila is also a Trustee for Clore Social Leadership, organisation dedicated to providing social leaders with world class leadership development.

    Prior to Bridges, Mila’s career spanned public, private, and third sector. Mila helped create and run Education Generation, a crowdsourcing social enterprise focused on enabling young leaders in low-and middle-income countries to participate in some of the world’s most forward-thinking education programmes.

  • Amit Shah

    Executive Director

    Amit, Executive Director at Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, has been working with Bridges for the last 3 years with a focus on our work in low- and middle-income countries. During this time, Amit has supported the creation of Outcomes Partnerships related to:

    • Helping families stay together through family therapy in the UK
    • Improving quality of education provision in West Africa and South Asia
    • Plastics waste recycling in West Africa
    • Access to clean water in Southeast Asia
    • Employment opportunities in Turkey

    Prior to joining Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, Amit worked for Social Finance where he created some of the most innovative social impact bonds in the UK. Amit spent his early career in banking and consulting, after which he ran a consulting organisation and charity focused on innovation in education.

    Amit holds a Bachelor of Science from Nottingham University in the UK.

Overview

The Government of India identified foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) as an ‘urgent and necessary prerequisite to learning’…

…launching its landmark NIPUN Bharat Mission in 2021 to equip every child aged 4-10 with FLN skills by 2026-27.

Over five years, LiftEd aims to strengthen the FLN ‘building blocks’ of learning. As part of a wider programme to work with over 4 million children, BOP’s local delivery partners are working with state governments and school facilitators in five Indian states (Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar). Our local delivery partners provide training to build capacity and improve FLN levels for public school children across grades 1-3.

This systems-level approach aims to enable transformative impact on current students over the next few years, but also to help to shape the future of education in the country.

 

Learn more about LiftEd

Delivery Innovations

An outcomes partnership has enabled a collaborative, flexible approach to problem-solving. This has facilitated a number of significant delivery innovations, including:

  • Adapting the processes of meeting management and minute-taking to ensure that FLN-related discussions are part of the agenda at all levels of the system.
  • Significant adaptation of classroom practice to allow for a deepening of formative assessments, enabling teachers to quickly understand class-wide progress and support those children that require more attention.
  • Improved use and capture of data, allowing delivery partner teams to better assess how programmes are performing in real time.

Outcomes

This programme is still in its early stages of delivery; as it progresses, we will update this page with outcomes achieved. Stay tuned!

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