By John Mugo, Mauro Giacomazzi, Devotha Festo and Samuel Otieno The Assessment of Life Skills and Values in East Africa was launched on February 17th, in a covid-friendly online ceremony marking the start of a three-year project to document evidence…
By John Mary Vianney Mitana (PhD), Jean Mary Wendo, Jude Edward Matovu The impact of Covid-19 has disrupted schooling globally, with 1.6bn learners out of school In Uganda alone, more than 15 million learners and 500,000 teachers are affected but…
By Girls Livelihood and Mentoring Initiatives As the year 2020 began, like everyone in the world, the Girls Livelihood and Mentoring Initiatives (GLAMI) had no way of knowing the immense changes that would come in the year. Since then, the…
By: Alex Kimiri, Africa Educational Trust Covid-19 has affected children’s learning across the globe and the solutions that work in the richer parts of the world just haven’t worked in places like Kenya’s Laikipia North. When schools started to close…
By Ann Gachoya, Truphena Kirongo, Fredrick Kiiru, George Odwe, Chi-Chi Undie. In December 2020, Kenya’s Ministry of Education started preparing to to fully re-open schools after nearly a year. The MoE focused specifically on building the capacity of education officials…
By Kennedy Oulu, a Research and evaluation expert, and MEL Mentor for RELI Tanzania. While you were in COVID-19 Lockdowns, learning indicators in Tanzania evolved. So, while you were in ‘lockdown’, we identified the following emergence in priority learning indicators…
By Joseph Lample, Executive Director – Kimanya Ngeyo Foundation for Science and Education Uganda. On the 30th of March 2020, Uganda went on its first lockdown to curb the spread of covid-19. Most schools remained closed until November. In response to these…
On 29th October 2020, Prof. Esther Care delivered a webinar on applying A Tested Method to Characterize Transferable Competences-Experience from the Optimizing Assessment For All Projects. In the webinar, Prof. Care took the team through the OAA project-Characteristics of the…
Opinion piece by Agatha Kimani In response to covid-19 all Kenyan learning institutions were on March 14, 2020 shut down. This presidential directive affected over 15 million primary and secondary school learners. Now the good news is that the school…
What past shocks can teach us about mitigating the impact of pandemics
