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Our work directly improves education outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries.

Our exciting and diverse programme of work spans community, innovation and partnerships—collaborating with members, policymakers, innovators, funders, civil society and other non-state education actors.

From our Impact at Scale Labs programme, annual meetings and evidence hubs to online learning events, toolkits and resources, our work is actively driving improvements in education outcomes in the Global South.

Strategic Priorities

We focus on creating, codifying, and sharing evidence and best practices to enhance member knowledge and capabilities. Our efforts also include providing thought leadership and influencing policy on a global scale.

Knowledge Accelerator

We focus on creating, codifying, and sharing evidence and best practices to enhance member knowledge and capabilities. Our efforts also include providing thought leadership and influencing policy on a global scale.

We are focused on sub-granting to facilitate testing and scaling initiatives. This includes creating new on-granting vehicles for our members, such as financing low-fee private schools and advocating for foundational learning. Additionally, we aim to connect our members with funders and vice versa.

Funding Catalyst

We are focused on sub-granting to facilitate testing and scaling initiatives. This includes creating new on-granting vehicles for our members, such as financing low-fee private schools and advocating for foundational learning. Additionally, we aim to connect our members with funders and vice versa.

We facilitate partnerships among our members, connect them with global actors, and foster collaborations with governments to scale innovations. Additionally, we broker research partnerships to enhance our collective impact.

Partnership Builder

We facilitate partnerships among our members, connect them with global actors, and foster collaborations with governments to scale innovations. Additionally, we broker research partnerships to enhance our collective impact.

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Fostering connection, trust, and relationship building among GSF members is essential for creating a vibrant and supportive community. By encouraging open communication and collaboration, we can strengthen the bonds between members, ensuring that everyone feels valued and included. This sense of belonging not only enhances individual experiences but also fortifies the GSF community as a whole, paving the way for shared growth and success.

Community Convenor

Fostering connection, trust, and relationship building among GSF members is essential for creating a vibrant and supportive community. By encouraging open communication and collaboration, we can strengthen the bonds between members, ensuring that everyone feels valued and included. This sense of belonging not only enhances individual experiences but also fortifies the GSF community as a whole, paving the way for shared growth and success.

Our Projects

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Knowledge Accelerator
Funding Catalyst
Partnership Builder

Lighthouse Coalition

Launched in 2024, Lighthouse is a coalition of governments in the Global South improving literacy and numeracy. We build and share exemplars for the world to learn from and spread reform tactics across borders.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Partnership Builder

The Impact Accelerator

The Impact Accelerator is an initiative designed in collaboration with Hempel Foundation, supporting education organisations in low- and middle-income countries to strengthen their capacity, deepen their impact, and scale sustainable solutions through tailored technical assistance, coaching, and peer collaboration.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Funding Catalyst
Partnership Builder

Impact at Scale Labs – Foundational Literacy and Numeracy

Impact at Scale Labs - Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) seeks to transform education systems by working with promising innovators. The Lab aims to do this by carefully selecting locally-led organisations who have promising visions for scaling their FLN programmes in low-middle income contexts.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Funding Catalyst
Partnership Builder

Impact at Scale Labs – Early Years in Kenya

Impact at Scale Labs – Early Years in Kenya supports locally led organisations that are playing an increasingly important role in improving access to, and the quality of, childcare and early childhood education and development in Kenya.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Partnership Builder

Government and Non-State Partnerships Evidence Hub

The Evidence Hub is a consolidated repository of tools and resources focused on innovative partnerships between non-state actors and governments.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Funding Catalyst
Partnership Builder

Power of Parents

Power of Parents aims to deepen understanding, inform practice, and strengthen efforts to engage families in learning by sharing research, innovative models, and practical insights, while also identifying key gaps. This is especially important given the growing recognition of the critical role parents and communities play in early and primary education.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Funding Catalyst
Partnership Builder

Impact at Scale Labs – Innovations for Learning Recovery

Impact at Scale Labs - Innovations for Learning Recovery supported three grantee innovations that improved learning recovery post Covid-19 in India, Ghana and Kenya for evidence driven scale-up of their foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) and early childhood education and development (ECED) programmes.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Partnership Builder

Scale Navigator

The Scale Navigator is a resource developed in collaboration with HundrED and Schools2030, with support from the Jacobs Foundation. Created to address significant barriers in accessing and incorporating effective scaling tools for education innovations, this resource aims to improve access to appropriate tools and frameworks, tackling the complexities of spreading impactful innovations at every level.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Partnership Builder

Scale Toolkit

The Scale Toolkit, developed through the Impact at Scale Labs programme, offers practical tools and learnings for organisations to assess and improve their solution's readiness for scale, regardless of whether it's a new or an existing project. It's built around the Desirability, Viability, Feasibility (DVF) framework, with every tool meticulously linked to these key pillars. The toolkit also includes real-world case studies to inspire and inform your scaling strategies.

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Partnership Builder

Impact at Scale Labs

The Impact at Scale Labs programme provides catalytic funding and tailored support to help promising, locally-led education organisations scale their impact. The programme works with grantees to generate and distil evidence and learnings on what works in education and why, sharing these findings to inform national, regional, and global policies and programmes.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Partnership Builder

Early Childhood Education and Development in Emergencies (ECEDiE) Evidence Hub

The Evidence Hub is a curated collection of models, tools, and strategies to help practitioners implement dual-generational approaches that strengthen education and wellbeing outcomes for both young children and their caregivers living in protracted emergencies.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Partnership Builder

Regulating Non-State Education

Global Schools Forum fosters dialogue, shares best practice, and engages with global stakeholders to strengthen regulatory frameworks within education systems globally. Our aim is to improve the quality, accessibility, and overall effectiveness of regulation to ensure equitable access to education in the Global South.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Funding Catalyst
Partnership Builder

Learning Differences Evidence Hub

The Learning Differences Evidence Hub comprises promising approaches, practitioner challenges, and practical strategies to help strengthen inclusive practices and support every learner. An estimated 1 in 10 children globally have a disability, yet many education systems—particularly in low- and middle-income countries fail to meet their needs.

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Partnership Builder

Generation Empowerment Fund

The Generation Empowerment Fund (GEF) is a one-of-a-kind blended finance facility focused on improving the holistic well-being of children through a child-lens investment approach, especially focused on improved outcomes for health, education, and climate resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Partnership Builder

Study Tours

Global Schools Forum’s study tours are a unique opportunity for practitioners, funders and partners to deep-dive into a single thematic area. Specially curated for the GSF community, study tours allow participants to immerse themselves in the education context of a single country.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Partnership Builder

Community Learning and Engagement

We deepen learning and engagement within and between the community through formal and informal connections, communities of practice, events and networking opportunities.

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Knowledge Accelerator
Funding Catalyst
Partnership Builder

All Hands on Deck for SDG 4

All Hands on Deck for SDG 4 supports education stakeholders to collaborate and engage with each other more effectively. Achieving SDG 4 demands greater collaboration amongst all education stakeholders. The All Hands on Deck for SDG 4 initiative has been developed to strengthen education systems and foster better collaboration across diverse education stakeholders.

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