KIX EMAP Hub participates in GPE regional partner meetings in Hanoi

A delegation from the Global Partnership for Education’s Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) comprising Sangay Jamtsho from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Jose Luis Canelhas and Aditi Desai from the KIX EMAP Hub recently participated in the GPE regional partner meetings for its Asia and Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Middle East and North Africa constituencies held in Hanoi, Vietnam between 19-21 May 2025.

GPE holds annual regional constituency meetings to provide an opportunity for its partner countries to deliberate on GPE policies and shifts and have a strong voice in GPE governance processes. The recent meetings brought together representatives from over 30 partner countries and included a session on KIX on day 2. The KIX team presented a short overview of the key activities, with a focus on sharing results so far from countries across the region, which highlighted the role of KIX in responding to key education needs in partner countries as well as on the role of KIX as a complementary mechanism to GPE’s overall contribution to national education systems strengthening.

Following the presentation, country representatives from the Maldives and Sri Lanka elaborated on their experiences, which highlighted how KIX-supported knowledge exchange and learning activities, such as Learning Cycles, had directly contributed to influencing the direction of education reforms and policy shifts in their contexts. Similarly, representatives from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Egypt also reflected positively on their participation in KIX. These results further reinforce the demand-driven, collaborative nature of KIX, and provide helpful input for KIX activities going forward.

In addition to these meetings, the KIX delegation also had the opportunity to visit a school in Hanoi and watch the Vietnamese public education system in action. Over the course of the mission, they also participated in fruitful discussions with various KIX partners including the Hanoi National University of Education, the Mekong Development Research Institute, the Vietnam National Institute for Educational Sciences, all of whom are KIX research grantees as well as key stakeholders in the context of the larger Vietnamese education ecosystem. They further had a chance to hear civil society perspectives through their meetings with two of GPE’s Education Out Loud grantees, Vietnam Association for Education For All and the Microfinance and Community Development Institute. Finally, they also had a chance to join the GPE mission and join key conversations with the Ministry of Education and Training, and the Education Sector Group in Vietnam.

The positive discussions over the course of the week throw light on both the efforts and the results of the GPE KIX mechanism so far in contributing to national education reform through knowledge generation, exchange and learning.