Education Finance Network

🌍 🌱 Our global community is expanding! We’re excited to share the latest list of the Education Finance Network’s 120+ members. Check out who’s part of our community! 👇

The Government Outcomes Lab, University of Oxford is organizing an online event on "Building gender equity in skills and employment: Lessons from India’s Skill Impact Bond", as part of their "Engaging with Evidence" series. The session will explore the latest findings from the implementation of India's Skill Impact Bond, the world’s largest development impact bond in the skills sector. The Skill Impact Bond is dedicated to skills training and job placement using private sector capital and expertise. Its objective is to benefit 50,000 young Indians over four years, with 60% of the beneficiaries being women, and it focuses on job placement and retention, rather than on just training and certification. 📅 November 27 🕰 10:30am-noon (GMT) Find out more and register here: https://lnkd.in/etJP9q6V #ImpactBond #OutcomesBasedFinance #SkillsDevelopment

💰 Exploring the use of innovative finance in education 🏫 As the global education community gathers for the 2024 Global Education Meeting this week to assess progress on SDG4, a major focus will be on strategies to boost investment in education and scale innovative financing strategies. To support this effort, we’re resharing two blogs exploring the use of outcomes-based financing in education. These blogs capture insights from a learning group on innovative finance in education, co-facilitated by the Education Finance Network and The Education Outcomes Fund. Strengthening learning and knowledge sharing around innovative financing is essential to scaling the effective use of these tools, and we hope the blogs contribute to that conversation. See key messages below, and read the full blogs here: 📊 Piecing together the measurement puzzle: Experiences from Outcomes-Based Finance programs in education: https://lnkd.in/e-mNVzsq 🌄 Many paths up the mountain of strengthening systems through Outcomes-Based Finance: https://lnkd.in/evbiVF4u #LeadingSDG4 #EducationFinance #InnovativeFinance

👩💻💡Mark your diaries for a webinar on innovative financing for education in Africa on Monday! To mark the AU #YearOfEducation, African Union, UNICEF and Global Partnership for Education are hosting a webinar to explore successful innovative approaches to expand financing for education and improve the equity, efficiency, and effectiveness of education spending in Africa. The event promises an engaging discussion with a rich variety of experts, including the Education Finance Network's Charlie Habershon! 📅 Monday, 21 October ⏲ 7:00-9:00 EDT / 11:00-13:00 UTC / 13:00-15:00 CAT / 14:00-16:00 EAT / Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXhbefea #InnovativeFinance #EducationFinance #Africa

🌍 Join us at #AVPA2024! Unlocking the Transformative Power of Investing in Girl’s Education 👩🎓 The Education Finance Network is excited to host a session on the transformative impact of investing in girls' education and exploring how innovative financing can be leveraged to expand access to quality education for girls across Africa. You will hear from Brenda Waguma from Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Pacifique Kwizera Irumva from Kumwe Hub, and Koumba Diallo Anouma, EMBA from Investisseurs & Partenaires - I&P in an interactive discussion moderated by Charlie Habershon from the Education Finance Network / Dalberg. In this session, we will: 💹Highlight investment strategies that meet the unique needs of girls. 👩🎓Explore how philanthropic and private sector investments can support girls' education initiatives. 💰Examine various forms of capital available for financing girls’ education, such as grants, concessional loans, impact-linked loans, and equity investments, offering insights into the best fit for specific needs and different stages of growth of education initiatives. This discussion will provide philanthropists, investors, and policymakers with actionable insights on unlocking the potential of girls’ education to drive long-term, sustainable benefits for African communities. 📅 Monday, November 4, at 11:30 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eCnTHuAn #GirlsEducation #InnovativeFinancing @African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA)

If you haven’t yet seen the Global Schools Forum’s Government and Non-State Partnerships Evidence Hub, do check it out! It offers toolkits, case studies, policy briefs, and a categorization framework designed to equip policymakers and non-state education providers to understand the breadth of possible partnership models in the sector. Explore the Evidence Hub here: https://lnkd.in/eMTP_8Y8 #evidence #partnerships #EducationForAll

👩💻💡A Thought Leadership Webinar on Innovative Financing for Education in Africa To mark the AU #YearOfEducation, African Union, UNICEF and Global Partnership for Education are hosting a webinar to explore successful innovative approaches to expand financing for education and improve the equity, efficiency, and effectiveness of education spending in Africa. The event promises an engaging discussion with a rich variety of panelists, including renowned economist, innovative educator, and twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders, Jeffrey Sachs. 📅 Monday, 21 October ⏲ 7:00-9:00 EDT / 11:00-13:00 UTC / 13:00-15:00 CAT / 14:00-16:00 EAT / Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXhbefea #InnovativeFinance #EducationFinance #Africa

🌟 Welcome to our newest members! 🌟 The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, provides financing support to projects that expand access and improve quality, including in post-secondary education, early childhood education, edtech, technical and vocational training, skilling, reskilling, and other educational models to people in low- and middle-income countries. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is a family foundation that funds nonprofit organizations working to improve the lives of disadvantaged people throughout the world. In education, they support early childhood development with a two-generation approach for children and caregivers, and support disadvantaged youth to gain skills and access meaningful employment. We look forward to working with you in our mission to leverage non-state resources to build inclusive, high-quality education systems worldwide.

We’re thrilled to see our member Associação Nova Escola among the ten finalists of the 2024 UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development! This nomination recognizes Nova Escola's remarkable work in supporting teachers across Brazil with accessible lesson plans. Their platform offers over 6,000 free, high-quality lesson plans, reaching nearly 900,000 teachers every month. By providing public school educators with relevant and easily accessible resources, this initiative plays a crucial role in bridging educational inequalities and improving learning outcomes nationwide. https://lnkd.in/eMbHajdF #WorldTeachersDay #EmpoweringEducators Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Medical and Educational Sciences

After attending key side events during #UNGA79, our project manager, Inês Charro, shares insights from discussions featuring several Education Finance Network members. 🚸𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐚𝐩: A roundtable hosted by @ECDAN emphasized that despite the critical role of early childhood education, the global financing gap remains at USD 21 billion annually. Initiatives like the The Education Outcomes Fund’s outcomes-based model and The Brookings Institution's Childhood Cost Calculator aim to bridge the funding gap and make the best use of resources. 🌍𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭:  A session hosted by Atlassian Foundation featured Forte, British Asian Trust, International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd), and The Education Outcomes Fund, sharing innovative models tackling unemployment and improving education for children and young people across Africa, Asia, and beyond. 🤖  𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:  Another session hosted by Atlassian Foundation explored how AI is transforming learning and teacher development. While challenges like AI bias and the digital divide remain, strategic partnerships can unlock its potential for scaling education solutions globally. #EducationFinance #InnovativeFinancing #AIinEducation