Elevate: Partners for Education
Education
Location: Uganda
Co-sponsors: Joan Gass and Jonty Olliff-Cooper
Elevate: A first-time grantee in 2020
Elevate was founded in 2016 and has already changed the lives of more than 30,000 children across Uganda. Its mission is to improve the quality of education in primary schools so that every child is better prepared to reach his/her full potential. Elevate works with government partners to design, implement, and evaluate innovative mechanisms that can be scaled to benefit children across the entire country in an impactful yet highly cost-efficient way. Elevate’s programs specifically address two complex challenges that undermine student success: (1) the need to leverage community expertise to sustainably improve school quality, and (2) the need to improve teacher effectiveness.
To leverage community expertise, Elevate implements two programs:
- Village TEACH: An initiative designed to empower communities to evaluate needs and develop skills to drive education quality.
- Positive Deviance in Education: A program to uncover local innovations that improve student learning.
To increase teacher effectiveness, Elevate partners with the Ugandan Ministry of Education & Sports (MOES). Together, they build digital evaluation tools and reporting systems to map NGO-driven teacher training interventions.
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GRANT SUMMARY AND PURPOSE
2020: $30,000 will be used to implement a COVID-19 adapted version of Village TEACH program in 50 communities. (School closures due to COVID-19 have made this an even more pressing need). The budget includes allocations for staff and materials to develop Education Action Plans (EAPs), including those for distance learning. It also provides resources to enlist participation from members of the local communities to support these educational programs.
IMPACT
Community workshops and training will engage 3,000 adults. Over 700 of them will be equipped with skills to lead educational improvement efforts supporting 23,000 students.
