12 Jun 2025
My Path to Climate Activism: Untraditional Teachers and Unexpected Possibilities
In this blogpost, Amy O’Brien reflects upon meaningful ways for youth to learn about social and environmental justice outside of institutional settings. This blogpost is part of the “Provocation for Education from Youth Climate Activism” blog series. Climate Justice and the Interconnected Crisis Climate education in schools focuses mostly on climate science, which is hugely... Read More
10 Jun 2025
Side Event on the Margins of the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council: Regional Approaches to Implementing the Right to Academic Freedoms
Tuesday 24 June 2025, 12:00-13:00 CEST Room XXII at Palais des Nations, Geneva & Online To Attend Online: REGISTER HERE To Attend In-Person: REGISTER HERE & REGISTER VIA INDICO (※ Please note that you will need a valid UN pass to access the meeting room, and as space is limited, in-person registration will be closed... Read More
09 Jun 2025
New GPE KIX Regional Observatories in the EMAP region
The Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) has established Regional Observatories on Education Systems Resilience. These Regional Observatories cover a wide range of GPE-partner countries, with five in the EMAP region. The Regional Observatories, which are part of the larger GPE KIX initiative, aim to examine the meanings and practices of... Read More
06 Jun 2025
DHIS2 Annual Conference 2025
Date: 10 – 13 June 2025 Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Geneva/CEST) Location: Hybrid; University of Oslo, Norway and Online (Zoom) READ EVENT HIGHLIGHTS The Health Information Systems Program (HISP) of the University of Oslo (a KIX research grantee) and the KIX EMAP Hub invite you to attend the DHIS2 Annual Conference 2025. The... Read More
05 Jun 2025
Why Time Matters
In this blogpost, Gita Steiner-Khamsi reflects on the seven temporalities of global school reform. In a recently published book, I highlighted the seven most common temporalities utilized to understand why some reforms circulate globally (and others don’t), what exactly travels and what sticks, and when there is receptiveness for global policies, best practices, or broadly... Read More
4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4)
Sevilla, Spain | 30 June – 3 July 2025 Join the NORRAG Team at FfD4. More information soon. Financing Our Future FfD4 provides a unique opportunity to reform financing at all levels, including to support reform of the international financial architecture and addressing financing challenges preventing the urgently needed investment push for the SDGs. FFD4 Conference... Read More
Event Highlights: Table-ronde - « Investissons dans l’éducation de base pour promouvoir une société en paix ! » le 26 juin
On June 26, 2025, Enfants du Monde hosted a public roundtable in Geneva to drive home a clear message: investing in basic education in fragile contexts is a strategic investment in peace. The discussion brought together field experts, researchers, and donors to unpack what this means in practice, and why it matters now. Despite being... Read More
30 May 2025
KIX EMAP Skills-Strengthening Workshop: Implementation Research
русский I العربية Date: 19 – 20 June 2025 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM (CEST/Geneva) Location: Online (Zoom) Languages: English, with simultaneous interpretation to Arabic and Russian READ EVENT HIGHLIGHTS This will be the first workshop in the new KIX EMAP Skills-Strengthening Workshop Series. This KIX EMAP skills-strengthening workshop, organised in partnership with the Building... Read More
29 May 2025
Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education: A Systematic Review of Literature from Pakistan
In this blogpost, Aisha Naz Ansari presents the results of a meta-analysis to evaluate the impact of PPPs on improving access and quality of primary and secondary schooling in Pakistan. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) represent a relatively new governance approach involving government and non-government stakeholders collaborating to tackle developmental challenges (Robertson et al., 2012). In education,... Read More
22 May 2025
Strengthening Justice in Education in Adverse Times
In this blogpost, María Balarin and Lizzi O. Milligan present key findings from the JustEd Project that explored responses to global educational justice and sustainability agendas by countries in the Global South. The authors expose key limitations in such responses and argue that we need to move beyond narrow conceptualisations of how education can contribute... Read More