Evaluation of Data for Foundational Learning (D4FL)
Client: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
Duration: 2024 - Present
Geography: Global
Partners: Mokoro Ltd.
Solutions: Evaluation
There are significant gaps in the disaggregated and comparable data on learning needed to track progress towards global targets on quality education and learning. In poorer countries reliable information on what children are learning, especially in primary school, is not collected frequently or at all.
The Data for Foundational Learning (D4FL) programme is funded by FCDO and managed by the FCDO Education, Gender and Equality Directorate (EdGE). The programme is implemented with partners, including UNESCO, the World Bank, the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER) and the People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network. It is providing support to government and partners in low-income and lower-middle income countries (LICs and LMICs) to:
i. track global learning outcomes to enable reporting for Sustainable Development Goal 4 numeracy and literacy reporting and G7 girls’ education targets
ii. generate more high quality, disaggregated learning data
iii. use learning data to improve the planning, design and implementation of foundational education provision
Mokoro Ltd. and Oxford MeasurEd have been commissioned to carry out the formative and summative evaluations of the D4FL programme. The evaluations will provide evidence of the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the D4FL programme and programme activities. They will provide learning to inform ongoing delivery of D4FL, and the design and implementation of future initiatives aiming to strengthen the generation and use of learning data.
Key Activities:
Theory of Change workshops with FCDO and partners
Desk-based reviews of programmatic documents and data
Interviews with global assessment experts
Remote and in-person case study data collection with implementing partners, FCDO education advisors, Government and other global national and international stakeholders
Surveys of Government representatives in LICs and MICs
Realist analysis of the context-intervention-result relationships at national and global levels
Learning and reflection workshops with FCDO and implementing partners
