Education
Education continues to be a major challenge for South Asia. Although enrolment in school has improved, the quality of learning remains poor for many and drop out rates are high – especially among girls.
Significant progress has been made in increasing school enrollment rates across South Asia, ensuring more children have access to education. However, the heartbreaking reality is that students, especially in foundational skills, are not truly learning, even while attending school. *
Our approach:
We want to transform the quality of education to ensure all children have the opportunity to secure a successful future.
Through our work:
- We have supported over 4 million children to receive a quality education across South Asia.
- Quality Education India Development Impact Bond (QEI DIB): Launched in 2018, successfully transformed the lives of 200,000 students and improved their learning by 2.5x.
- Skill Impact Bond: Launched in 2021, it is India's first impact bond for employment outcomes and is well on its way to achieving its goal of supporting 50,000 young Indians - 60% of whom will be women.
- We are now making significant strides to design and launch the country’s first impact bond – the Pakistan Employment Impact Bond
LiftEd - Transforming foundational learning in India
While India has made significant gains in education enrolments, foundational learning needs to be improved. Recognising this, the Government of India has identified foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) as an ‘urgent and necessary prerequisite to learning’, launching the NIPUN Bharat Mission to achieve improve FLN levels for all.
“If I hadn’t run away, I would be married by now, tending goats out in the nowhere. I want to be a teacher to encourage the other girls to fight for their education.”
