IDS is a Global Learning Partner for Education Out Loud (EOL), a fund for advocacy and social accountability that supports civil society to be active, representative, and influential in shaping education policies to better meet the needs of communities, especially of vulnerable and marginalized populations.

IDS works with EOL as one of its four Global Learning Partners. Our role is to analyse, aggregate and synthesise the learning and evidence the 80+ EOL grantees are producing across different geographies and thematic areas about strategies and mechanisms to influence educational policies and increase accountability in the education sector.

From this we work to generate higher-level reflections and strategic lessons to benefit civil society in the education sector and the broader work on social accountability. We also provide learning accompaniment support to EOL’s Global Management Unit and Regional Management Units (Latin American and Caribbean; Asia – Pacific; West and Central Africa; Horn, East and Southern Africa) as EOL mainstreams learning as a priority across the organisation.

EOL’s overall goal is to enhance civil society capacity to further the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2025 goals of accelerating access, learning outcomes and gender equality through equitable, inclusive, and resilient education systems fit for the 21st century.

More specifically, it aims to:

• Strengthen national civil society engagement in gender responsive education planning, policy development and monitoring;
• Strengthen civil society roles in promoting the transparency and accountability of national education sector policy and implementation; and
• Create a stronger global and transnational enabling environment for national civil society advocacy and transparency efforts.