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.

Strategic Priority

Knowledge Accelerator

Partnership Builder

Helping education organisations grow smarter, partner effectively, and scale faster

Shaping scaling through reflection, alignment, and strategic planning

Each organisation’s journey begins with a structured diagnostic process designed to surface key strengths, challenges and opportunities. Through organisational assessments, team reflections and data visualisation, organisations gain clarity on where they are and where they need to go.

Tailored support through expert-led tracks and coaching

Based on the key priorities identified in the diagnostic phase, each organisation engages with curated content and tailored support across various tracks: fundraising, finance, partnerships, leadership or monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL).

Learning in community to build strength through peer collaboration

Beyond individual coaching, the Impact Accelerator brings together a cohort of education organisations for shared learning and collaboration. Through facilitated workshops, offsite gatherings and informal peer exchange, participants gain fresh insights, share challenges and co-develop solutions.

From programme learnings to inspiring action for sector-wide change

Through curated case studies, sector events and peer learning exchanges, the programme creates space for reflection, dialogue and knowledge transfer.

Impact Accelerator grantees
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Twaweza

Twaweza means “we can make it happen” in Swahili. Twaweza’s Pay-by-Skill system transfers small cash rewards to early grade teachers for each individual student who masters FLN skills. So large classes with true learners represent opportunity, unleashing teachers’ agency and initiative.

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Teach for Bangladesh

Teach For Bangladesh (TFB) strives for immediate and long-term impact by cultivating collective leadership. The flagship program, Teach For Bangladesh Fellowship, recruits the most exceptional 1% of recent graduates and young professionals to address the educational inequity in Bangladesh through working directly with the under-resourced schools both inside and outside the classrooms for two years.

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Aasaman Nepal

Aasaman Nepal is Terai based organization that works in Nepal since 1999 having Education and Child Protection as one of the key thematic areas. It has strong foundations at local level that works to prioritize inclusion of marginalized, socially excluded and vulnerable children in full- time formal day school. The organization worked with 125,000+ children to improve children's access to education, increase enrollment rates, promote retention and reduce gender gap.

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EducAid

EducAid Sierra Leone is supporting education system strengthening through its Top Ten Strategies for Teaching & Learning (ETTS) and District of Excellence model. Drawing on 30 years of experience, EducAid supports over 850 schools across six districts, equipping Ministry teams, school leaders, and teachers with practical tools to build safe, respectful, and effective classrooms - ensuring every child is in school, safe, and learning.

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Education Network

Our project mobilizes local leaders to support educational supervisors, enables teacher self-training through accessible digital modules on tablets or phones, and promotes the creation of localized educational tools. This innovative approach combines simple technology, community engagement, and local educational groups to improve teaching practices and, ultimately, student outcomes.

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Inspire, Educate and Empower Rwanda (IEE)

IEE is implementing a remedial education model that equips teachers with the tools and skills to deliver differentiated, data-driven instruction tailored to learners’ specific needs. Through continuous professional development, coaching from Remedial Learning Advisors, and school-based mentorship, teachers gain practical strategies to identify struggling learners early and design targeted interventions in their lessons. At the same time, school leaders are trained to monitor progress using simple assessment tools, ensuring accountability and sustained improvement.

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Mouvement National pour l’Éducation Pour Tous (MonEPT)

Mouvement National pour l’Éducation Pour Tous (MonEPT) promotes quality, inclusive, and transparent education in Madagascar. Our solution, Strengthening School Governance for Quality Education, aims to: empower community school governance committees (FEFFI) to lead school improvement planning, mobilize resources, and monitor education quality; support teachers through peer coaching and champion teacher workshops; engage communities in school planning and budgeting; and facilitate policy dialogue at national and regional levels to integrate successful practices into government systems.

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People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network

The People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network brings a proven citizen-led assessment (CLA) approach that generates reliable data on foundational learning while inspiring community and government action. Our tools (ICAN-ICAR, PAL-ELANA and country specific CLAs) provide low-cost, inclusive, and scalable household-based assessments that capture both in-school and out-of-school children. These assessments inform citizen-led actions such as ‘My Village’ and other country-specific TaRL-inspired programmes, which mobilise communities to ensure every child learns.

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Partnering for impact. Strengthening education ecosystems through collaboration with Hempel Foundation 

“The Impact Accelerator is driven by a powerful idea, when philanthropy and ecosystem enablers work together, funding has greater reach and impact. A partnership between Global Schools Forum and the Hempel Foundation, the Impact Accelerator supports education organisations in low- and middle-income countries to grow and lead change. By aligning financial resources with deep sector expertise, this collaboration strengthens the broader education ecosystem. It’s about more than support as well as it’s about building the conditions for long-term success. Together, we’re turning promising ideas into scalable solutions, enabling education innovators to create lasting impact where it matters most.”

Rosa Robinson
Senior Manager, Education Partnerships, Hempel Foundation