Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge
Improving children’s access to and quality of education, for increased learning outcomes.
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Location
Sierra Leone
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Launch
Sep 2022
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Area
Education & Employment
Collaborators & funding partners
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Education Outcomes Fund
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Government of Sierra Leone
Delivery Partners
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Rising Academy
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Street Child
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EducAid
Collaborators & funding partners
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Education Outcomes Fund
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Government of Sierra Leone
Delivery Partners
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Rising Academy
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Street Child
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EducAid
Overview
The Sierra Leone Innovation Challenge is improving learning outcomes in literacy and numeracy for marginalised students.
The Sierra Leone Innovation Challenge (SLEIC) is a bold initiative to improve primary education in the country, and the largest outcomes fund for education globally.
Alongside The Education Outcomes Fund, the Government of Sierra Leone and others, BOP is improving learning outcomes in literacy and numeracy for marginalised students, especially girls, in primary schools across five geographical areas in the country.
We’re working with three of the five SLEIC delivery partner organisations to carry out this exciting programme: Rising Academy, Street Child and EducAid. As well as learning outcomes, our collaboration also tackles dated systemic challenges in public schools, such as lack of teacher ownership and capacity of voluntary teachers.
More information on SLEIC’s Year 2 results here, and a more detailed breakdown here.
Outcomes
Over 45,000 students have begun the programme in BOP’s dedicated geographies. After its second year of delivery, the overall SLEIC results are equivalent to gaining an entire extra year of schooling in the best performing education systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Starts to the programme
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$0.0m
Outcomes achieved