KIX Africa 19 Hub
About the Hub - Overview
The Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) Africa 19 Hub is a joint project of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The KIX Africa 19 Hub supports GPE member countries in accelerating progress toward equitable, inclusive, and quality education under Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the African Union’s Continental
Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) 2016-2025. The KIX Africa 19 Hub functions as a regional forum to facilitate inter-country knowledge exchange and mobilization, learning, synthesis, and collaboration among key national education stakeholders.
Objectives
The specific objectives of the regional KIX Africa 19 Hub are to:
1. Strengthen the management and leadership of the hub, emphasising country engagement and ownership.
2. Synthesize knowledge and set regional knowledge and innovation agendas for education policy formulation and implementation in support of realizing gender-responsive, quality, inclusive and equitable education.
3. Enhance the capacity of member states to revitalize their education systems through facilitating exchange of demand-driven knowledge, innovations and cross-country learning and collaboration at all education levels.
Focal Points
Focal points ensure the strong linkages between the KIX Secretariat and GPE’s country partners to support the success of GPE’s constituency-model structure. Focal points help facilitate a better understanding of GPE processes at the country level. Following is a list of the names of current Hub focal points.
Consortium Partners
The KIX hub is managed and coordinated by a consortium of Research Learning Partners (RLPs):
UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA)
A category 1 UNESCO institute, based in Addis Ababa. Founded in 1999, it aims to inform education policies, strengthen teacher professional development, and build capacity in education institutions, including Ministries of Education. To provide innovative solutions and scale-up efforts to improve educational outcomes in Africa, IICBA works with a range of partners, including the African Union, UN agencies, other international organizations, development banks, bilateral donors, foundations, teacher organizations, school networks, and non-profits.
UNICEF’s Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa (UNICEF ESARO)
UNICEF ESARO coordinates and supervises UNICEF’swork in 21 countries across the region. We alsocoordinate UNICEF's engagement in the UNCoherence process in the region, as well as supportcountry offices' resource mobilization efforts. Theregional office is a hub of technical support, policyguidance and oversight, and intellectual leadershipon children's issues.
African Union's Pan-African Institute of Education for Development (IPED)
IPED is a specialized institution of the African Union that functions as the observatory of Education in Africa. IPED’s role is to ensure quality, responsive and inclusive education development in Africa based on sound, accurate, and timely information in order to meet the individual and collective goals for the development of human resources and intellectual capacity in the continent.
Regional and Technical Partners
Together the consortium has established partnerships and relationships with important regional education stakeholders, including:
