Impact@Scale Labs are seeking solutions that tackle the learning loss experienced by ECE, primary and secondary students in middle- and low-income countries. It aims to guide and support education organizations to expand their impact through scaling.
When the pandemic hit us two years ago, it exacerbated challenges for global education. 1.7 billion (95%) children around the world were temporarily out of school, negatively impacting their learning and overall well-being. Therefore, Impact@Scale invites diverse applications that target students from ECE to secondary education.
Benefits of Impact@Scale Labs:
- Participants will receive up to $100,000 of which some are flexible.
- In addition, participants will receive 1-5 months of tailor-made guidance and support to build their scale and evidence strategies.
- Teams will learn iterative methodologies and build a strategy to embed more evidence-based decision-making.
- Teams will be supported to identify and build connections with key stakeholders including the government to support their innovations to scale.
- Moreover, teams will be given the opportunity to engage with the global GSF member base and build partnerships for scale.
You can achieve the following at the end of the Program:
- Strong monitoring and evaluation mechanism to guide evidence-based decision making
- A solid foundation for scalable innovation including tested and evidence-driven strategy, vision and goals, and scaling mindset
- Network to support scale, which will continue to grow with GSF membership
Eligibility
Innovation
- Your solution could be a new product or technology, a new service, a new process, or even a change in approach or concept
- Work to mitigate COVID19 learning loss faced by children through either
- improving teacher effectiveness
- improving learner preparedness
- introducing a more effective use of technology
- Target either students or teachers as primary users
- Also, be at the posted proof of concept stage
Organization
- Be a GSF member or be willing to become one
- Operate in one of our eligible countries
- Able to commit a project leader as well as internal M&E partner
- Willing to commit an external M&E partner
- Also, be a school, school network, or intermediary organization working with ECE, primary or secondary students