Textbooks and supplementary reading materials can help strengthen literacy skills, but teachers remain the most important input for learning. In many countries, they do not have the knowledge and skills...
Nepal enjoys near-universal access to education, but its 20,000-plus primary schools struggle to provide effective learning, with 60 percent of grade 2 students not able to read a single word of a short...
Colombia has significantly increased its investments in education over the last two decades, producing modest gains in its international standardized test scores. Yet in 2015, nearly 40 percent of students...
Cambodia’s schools have long struggled to get enough of the right textbooks to students for each new school year. Some issues trace back to the book supply chain, which has traditionally used a cumbersome...
The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund supports and disseminates research on the impact of results-based financing on learning outcomes. The EVIDENCE series highlights REACH grants...
Globally, an estimated 267 million youth aged between 15 and 24 are neither in education nor employed, with most of these youth residing in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This number is likely to increase...
The quality of school management can have a large impact on student learning. Evidence from a wide range of countries demonstrates that improving the management practices of principals is associated with...
Textbooks are one of the most important tools to foster learning. There is evidence from a wide range of countries that, in order to raise literacy rates and improve learning outcomes, students must have...
Since 1988, Ghana has initiated a decentralization program by implementing comprehensive local governance and administrative reforms. These have led to the creation of semi-autonomous local governments...
Energy poverty ‘represents a fundamental barrier to progress for a sizeable proportion of the world’s population. It has impacts on a wide range of development indicators, including health, education...
Textbooks are one of the most important tools to help students to learn, but Cambodia’s textbook supply chain has several weak points. New textbooks typically do not arrive in time for the start of the...
Zambia has invested heavily on education with an allocation of about 20 percent of the government budget, but this investment has not translated into better student learning outcomes in primary education...
Digital book tracking systems have potential to address some major book supply challenges by providing accurate and easy to access information on the status of books along the supply chain. The evidence...
This case study is part of a series prepared by the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA). The objective is to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully...
The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund supports and disseminates research on the impact of results-based financing on learning outcomes. The Evidence series highlights REACH grants...
Many countries are giving more authority and control over resources to schools and their communities to improve decision making and spending, and ultimately student learning outcomes. School-based management...
In an effort to improve education outcomes, many countries have introduced school-based management reforms to decentralize decision making to the school level. The idea is that by shifting decision-making...
Literacy serves as an essential building block for learning, so when children master reading, they are more likely to succeed in school generally. To support the South African government’s campaign to...
Strategic purchasing of health services involves a continuous search for the best ways to maximize health system performance by deciding which interventions should be purchased, from whom they should be...
For many people who keep up with world events, the news from Afghanistan has long appeared to consist mainly of terror attacks, counter-insurgency campaigns and the opium trade. Behind the sensational...