Tracking change in changing societies: Experience of the GPE KIX Africa 21 hub

• In Event: Highlighted Session: Use of outcome mapping and outcome harvesting in the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange: challenges and successes

Proposal

Since its launch in 2020, the activities of the GPE KIX Africa 21 Hub have been governed by a very complex and rigorous monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) process based on the ideas of outcome mapping and outcome harvesting and put in place by GPE KIX. This MEL process allows not only to monitor activities and results of the hub but also to understand and consider changing country contexts in which the hub operates and use this information to inform its activities and support to countries in West, Central, and Indian Ocean Africa.

In its commitment to building a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation and the use of evidence in education policy making, the hub has carried out extensive follow-up work with countries. This work has focused on documenting behaviour changes through outcome cases and understanding how hub activities and other processes have contributed to these changes in light of different processes. These processes are sometimes political, security or health in nature and can have an impact on the activities of the hub and education reform processes in countries.

Through its monitoring activities, the hub has learned the importance of understanding behaviours of different education stakeholders and the contexts in which they operate in order to forge strong links with them and offer innovative, adaptabel and sustainable solutions in response to their education priorities.

The presentation will shed light on how the hub’s MEL approaches rooted in outcome mapping and outcome harvesting help to inform and adapt its work and better respond to education priorities of the countries in focus.

Authors

• Ina-Aissatou Sano, IFEF OIF

• Maïmouna SISSOKO TOURE, IFEF OIF