Published May, 2024
Last week, at the #SkollWorldForum2024, Transform Schools hosted an ecosystem event on the “Power of investing in the last five years of young adults at school - Transforming learning and life outcomes for youth”.
The session saw an exciting discussion on the importance of collaboration between civil society and investors and the need for a collaborative which engages with funders and governments together, vouching for the interests of young people.
Here are some thoughts from our amazing panellists that present an urgent call to action for practitioners, funders and researchers, globally:
“Coming together to convene a group of people who want to raise secondary up the agenda, I think is really important and it would just be great to get some of the kind of big donors and all of that power behind them to move into this space.” - Laura Brown, PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)
“ We need to look at the right kind of support structure, making sure that we are empowering the generation before them (children), the mothers of the community, the grandmothers, and the self-help groups to take ownership, especially from a gender perspective, especially from a woman perspective.” - Manushi Yadav, Pratham USA
“The not-for-profit sector in India is breathtakingly exciting. It achieves so much more, and there is so much innovation. But, the only way to get funders globally to be more interested in the sector is through collaboration and working together and putting that collective pressure on people." - Richard Hawkes, British Asian Trust
“I think one problem that still needs solving is just focusing on learning outcomes and how to move them. How do we improve basic skills? Ultimately, all these programmes are going to be as effective as the school systems allow them to be" - Urvashi Wattal, J-PAL South Asia
“I think the key thing, which is evident in the Transform Schools model, is the partnership with the government which is only built on all the evidence that they’ve managed to gather which has enabled them to work at scale now. There is also an acknowledgement that has to be made of the time that these sorts of changes take to be able to actually happen in the end" - Libby Burkeman, Kusuma Trust UK
“Bringing together expertise, and resources so that we have the funding to conduct research for innovations that are at the testing stage is important. This will ensure that children are more empowered and they can break the intergenerational cycle of poverty” - Neetu Sahu, Transform Schools
"Use evidence-based research to make the case for your investment, build in your performance indicators to show impact with robust monitoring and evaluation. From a funding perspective, show us what’s good for our business because that makes it much easier for us, for little people like me to go to the big people who really do hold the money and make the case for them.” - Ian McBride, BT Group
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