We’re excited to launch the Evidence for Education Network (EEN), a global network dedicated to improving education equity around the world through better use of evidence.
The network is brought together by a central principle: that evidence can improve the lives of children and young people across the world. EEN is group of organisations working in national or regional contexts to make this principle a reality.
We do this by summarising evidence in an accessible and rigorous way, and generating new evidence on the questions that matter to teachers and policymakers. Most importantly, we focus on ensuring that evidence is used by those that need it most – working with teachers and policymakers to support the high-quality implementation of evidence.
The network includes nine member organisations spanning a number of regions across the Global North and the Global South. Our members are:
- eBASE Africa, based in Cameroon and supporting evidence use across the Lake Chad Basin
- The Education Endowment Foundation, the government’s designated What Works Centre for education in England and the network’s secretariat
- Education Review Office, the New Zealand government’s external evaluation agency
- Evidence for Learning working across the states and territories of Australia
- Fundación “la Caixa”, one of the largest foundations in the world, with their EduCaixa programme working with schools across Spain
- Leerpunt, the Flemish government’s designated independent evidence function for education
- The Netherlands Initiative for Education Research, an independent institution supporting the Dutch education ministry and part of new government funded programme, Ontwikkelkracht, to support evidence use
- The Queen Rania Foundation an independent charity working across Jordan in partnership with the Ministry for Education and the Queen Rania Foundation Teaching Academy
- SUMMA, based in Chile and working across Latin America and the Caribbean including as the GPE’s KIX Hub
The network has emerged through through a set of shared values, alongside an understanding that global collaboration can support the work of each of organisations.
Examples of our shared work include:
- A global trials fund with shared standards around methodology and reporting (for example, the consistent communication of cost data)
- Peer to peer learning around effective and innovative strategies for evidence mobilisation
- A shared evidence infrastructure around living global synthesis
These shared projects are combined with an understanding that evidence use needs to be locally owned and contextually specific. This new website includes some case studies of the ways we are working in our countries and regions to ensure that evidence makes a real difference to children’s outcomes.
