Rapid Customised Country Support

Rapid Customised Country Support

The KIX EMAP Rapid Customised Country Support (RCCS) is a demand-driven activity, co-designed with Ministries of Education, that follows up on regional capacity strengthening and peer-learning exchange activities to ensure that countries have the opportunity to uptake the learnings at the national level. It is initiated by a request from the Ministry of Education, through the KIX EMAP national team, to address a specific knowledge need in the education system that can be fulfilled by a rapid and focused activity supported by the KIX EMAP Hub.

 

Current RCCS activities

RCCS Pacific (PAC): Teacher management and geospatial data

Anticipated duration: September 2026 – March 2027

The RCCS activity in the Pacific responds to priorities identified in the 2025 Conference of Pacific Education Ministers, which sets teacher supply, deployment and motivation as the regional focus for policy research and capacity strengthening. The RCCS will be delivered through a customised hybrid Learning Cycle focused on the use of geospatial data to improve teacher supply and deployment – integrated into the Institute of Education at the University of the South Pacific’s Education Policy and Planners’ Fono. Building on a previous KIX EMAP collaboration with IIEP-UNESCO on the use of geospatial data in education planning, this RCCS will support Pacific Island states in improving teacher workforce management.

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RCCS Europe and Central Asia (ECA): Teacher barometer study

Anticipated duration: July 2026 – March 2027

This RCCS activity in ECA responds to a demand from Moldova’s Ministry of Education to identify key factors influencing teachers’ motivation, professional satisfaction, and social prestige, with an aim of improving policies and institutional practices. Moldova, currently implementing major education reforms under its Education Strategy 2030, will lead the RCCS activity through its National Institute for Education and Leadership (INEL), using a new “Barometer on the Status of the Teacher” to generate system‑level evidence from external, internal, and institutional perspectives. The findings aim to inform a national Action Plan on Teacher Status and Motivation. Countries in Europe and Central Asia, which face similar evidence gaps, will participate to learn from Moldova’s approach and strengthen their own capacity to design future policy research.

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RCCS Indonesia and Vietnam: Artificial intelligence and education

Anticipated duration: June 2026 – March 2027

This RCCS responds to growing demand from the Ministries of Education in Indonesia and Vietnam to strengthen readiness for the effective, ethical, and equitable use of AI. Closely aligned with ongoing national education priorities, the activity is being implemented in collaboration with key national institutions, including Pusat Studi Pendidikan Dan Kebijakan (PSPK) in Indonesia and the Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences (VNIES), with support from the Hub and technical partners. The activity will generate evidence on AI literacy and readiness, support the development of AI competency frameworks, and facilitate policy dialogue to inform education policy and practice. In Indonesia, the focus is on strengthening AI literacy among teachers and system actors. In Vietnam, the emphasis is on strengthening AI literacy among school leaders and education managers and aligning emerging competency frameworks. Structured knowledge exchange between the two countries will support mutual learning and wider dissemination across Southeast Asia.

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RCCS Sri Lanka: Strengthening education data

Anticipated duration: June 2026 – March 2027

Following a demand from Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education, the Hub is working with the University of Oslo team implementing the KIX research project, District Health Information Software (DHIS2), on an RCCS activity focused on addressing targeted knowledge and learning needs of Sri Lanka’s Education Management and Information System (EMIS). The RCCS will support the expansion of a teacher cadre calculation and deployment monitoring system to all schools and its integration into the national EMIS. It will also support the development of a custom digital application for the National School Meal Program, improving efficiency, accountability, and real-time monitoring.

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RCCS South Asia, Middle East and North Africa (SAMENA): Teaching license

Anticipated duration: June 2026 – December 2026

This RCCS in SAMENA responds to growing interest in Sindh Province’s Teaching License Policy as a locally developed and cost-effective approach to strengthening teacher quality, professionalism, and accountability. Interest in the model first emerged among South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and other provinces of Pakistan, before expanding to the Middle East and North Africa region, where Egypt and other countries expressed interest in exploring the relevance of teacher licensing to their own reform agendas. Led by the Sindh teaching license team, the activity will support peer learning, technical mentorship, policy dialogue, and collaborative roadmap development. Participants will examine the design, implementation, and lessons of the Sindh model while assessing its relevance to their own policy and institutional contexts.

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RCCS Indonesia: Learning Cycle on the use of data for education policies

Anticipated duration: October 2025 – February 2026

The RCCS activity in Indonesia is a response to a request from the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE). As part of this RCCS, a customised Learning Cycle is being developed and offered to approximately 50 national experts from Indonesia, composed of education administrators, researchers and policymakers. The RCCS, through the Learning Cycle, aims to strengthen the capacity of selected national education experts to analyse existing national datasets and to carry out research to analyse, inform and strengthen education policies in Indonesia.

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Completed RCCS activities

RCCS Vietnam: Teaching Essential Skills in 2018 General Education Curriculum

Duration: July 2024 – March 2026

The RCCS in Vietnam built on outcomes from a previous Learning Cycle on “Integration of 21st Century Skills in Curriculum” and aimed to provide technical support to strengthen an exemplar skills teaching guide and teacher training programme.

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RCCS Cambodia: Addressing urban teacher oversupply and rural teacher shortages in Cambodia

Duration: August 2023 – June 2024

The KIX EMAP Hub provided RCCS to Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS). The activity addressed the challenge of teacher oversupply in cities, such as the capital city of Phnom Penh, and the shortage of qualified teachers at all levels of rural schools and in specific secondary-level subjects.

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RCCS Europe and Central Asia (ECA): Inclusive education for children with disabilities inter-country exchange: Kyrgyz Republic, Georgia, Moldova, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan

Duration: July 2023 – July 2024

This RCCS activity focused on promoting the exchange of good practices for inclusive education among five participating countries in Europe and Central Asia—Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. The activity was held in close collaboration with a group of public associations and Ministries of Education in the five countries.

Outputs

  • KIX EMAP Comparative Study on Inclusive Education Practices: The Cases of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia (English | Russian)
  • Successful Inclusive Education Practices In Primary Schools Of Georgia (English | Russian)
  • Successful Inclusive Education Practices In Primary Schools Of Kyrgyzstan (English | Russian)
  • Successful Inclusive Education Practices In Primary Schools Of Moldova (English | Russian)
  • Successful Inclusive Education Practices In Primary Schools Of Tajikistan (English | Russian)
  • Successful Inclusive Education Practices In Primary Schools Of Uzbekistan (English | Russian)

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RCCS Maldives: Integration of 21st century skills in curriculum in the Maldives

Duration: May 2023 – July 2025

This RCCS for the Maldives, in partnership with ACER, supported the Ministry of Education of the Maldives through the National Institute of Education (NIE) to strengthen the capacity of the NIE staff to integrate 21st-century skills fully and systematically into two key competencies in the national curriculum and its implementation at school. The RCCS initiative enabled NIE, with the support of trained teachers and teacher educators, to apply the work to the other six key competencies.

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This work was supported by the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange, a joint endeavour with the International Development Research Centre, Canada.

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