EDU – LAC Impact Fund
The Global Fund for the Development of Pilot and Impact Evaluations was born in 2019 from SUMMA’s collaboration with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) under the initiative “Building a global ecosystem of evidence for teaching improvement”, funded by the BHP Foundation, as part of its Global Education Equity Programme.
Global Fund for the Development of Pilot and Impact Assessments
The fund seeks to promote the generation of new evidence through the rigorous evaluation of promising educational interventions to improve student learning at school level. To this end, it (i) identifies innovations with a high potential impact on improving learning and closing educational gaps, (ii) opens competitions to the education research community to conduct evaluations of these promising programmes to improve student learning, and (iii) promotes the use of evidence, making the results and recommendations of the evaluated initiatives available to the community.
Project objectives
To identify promising educational programmes to improve the learning of students and to close the educational gap of those students in situations of greater socio-educational vulnerability.
To evaluate innovative interventions with promising results in learning improvement, which seek to contribute to the quality and equity of education in Latin America and the Caribbean.
To develop and strengthen local capacities to implement, evaluate and improve innovative practices and programmes. We promote a culture of collaboration around the generation of new evidence, with multidisciplinary work teams guided by rigorous quality standards and a deep respect for people’s rights.
To deepen collaboration between SUMMA and other organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean – LAC, articulating practices and policies informed by research and evidence.
Impact on society
We select innovative and promising programmes that help strengthen local and regional learning with a focus on comprehensive learning for students.
The impact evaluation of the Conecta Ideas platform, which uses games to motivate students to learn mathematics, began in April 2022 with more than 200 schools in Greater Santiago.
Collaborative Learning School is an initiative implemented by the SEPEC Foundation, which is developed through teacher training and classroom implementation.
This initiative trains teachers in the TaRL methodology for subsequent implementation with students. It will be delivered in twelve rural schools in Colombia.
In 2022 and 2023, with the support of SUMMA, EEF, Instituto Natura and the Ministry of Education of Corrientes, Argentina, Fundación Más Voces will be able to implement Learning Communities in fifteen new public elementary schools.
Some figures
4
Evaluations of promising educational programmes in three countries: Chile, Colombia, and Argentina.
+7000
Students benefiting from the implementation of programmes in the different countries.
+300
Teachers will be part of different interventions and learning from promising programmes within the region.
Other projects
PRISA - PANAMA PROGRAMME
It arises from the urgent need to address the educational gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, which have impacted the loss of learning of thousands of Panamanian students. MEDUCA and SUMMA collaborate with professional and technical resources to advance in the policy of learning recovery for the year 2022.
KIX LAC - HUB
The Knowledge and Innovation Exchange Centre (KIX) for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a space for collaboration and exchange for the innovation of educational leaders from Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
KIX GLOBAL - HONDURAS
The project Adapting and Scaling Approaches to Teacher Professional Development on a scale in Honduras 2020-2022 is part of the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange- GPE-KIX initiative promoted by the Global Partnership for Education and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
EVALUATIONS
SUMMA's evaluation area seeks to rigorously and systematically study the effects and results of educational policies and programmes aimed at improving the quality and equity of the region's educational systems. From an educational justice perspective, the evaluation area deploys diverse methodological strategies, which are both quantitative and qualitative.
LAB-ED SUMMA
Its objective is to identify innovative solutions to address the main educational gaps in the region. In turn, it seeks to strengthen and model educational innovation processes in the region, aimed at guaranteeing the right to education and reducing educational inequalities.
CHAKA - EFFECTIVE PRACTICES PROGRAMME
It is a programme that promotes the improvement of educational quality and equity through deep learning. It seeks to promote collaborative learning within the educational communities, among the schools in the network and with its ecosystem.
CO+INCIDE NETWORK
Latin American platform for collaboration with educational impact. It promotes collaboration among the main actors in the educational world. It aims to develop a virtuous ecosystem of collaboration in research and innovation that accelerates educational improvement in the region.
GEM LAC REPORT
Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) is an independent, accredited and evidence-based report published by UNESCO. GEM LAC is the Latin American and Caribbean version, prepared by SUMMA in partnership with UNESCO.
NATIONAL R&D&I ECOSYSTEMS
Regional Research on National Ecosystems of Research, Development, and Innovation (R&D&I) in Education is an unprecedented study that, with a cutting-edge methodology of networking, information gathering and systematization, presents the current situation of these ecosystems in eight Latin American countries.
TPD@SCALE COALITION
Coalition for the Global South: seeks to contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4, aimed at ensuring inclusive and quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for everybody.
"AVANZANDO JUNTAS" (ADVANCING TOGETHER) NETWORK
The project “Strengthening educational leadership skills to improve the resilience of kindergarten and nursery schools, SLEP Gabriela Mistral” is a SUMMA initiative in collaboration with the Local Public Education Service (SLEP) Gabriela Mistral.
Strategic partners
