4 November 2021, 12-1pm GMT
Come and join us to find out about lessons learned from implementing digital education in Pakistan.
About this event
The Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) was launched by the legacy UK Department for International Development (DFID) – now Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) – in 2012, as a 12-year commitment to reach the most marginalised girls in the world and is the largest global fund dedicated to girls’ education. The GEC enabled a number of organisations to trial and pilot locally led interventions to combat some of the key barriers faced by girls in accessing quality education. ACTED, which is implementing the ‘Closing the Gap: Educating Marginalised Girls’ project in Pakistan piloted an Ed-tech intervention with the aim of improving learning outcomes and closing the digital divide, which has now been exacerbated by COVID-19. The key purpose of this pilot was to evaluate if using computer tablets was enhancing the teaching and learning experience and whether this model could be scaled to reach more marginalised girls. In this webinar ACTED will be presenting the findings from the pilot, discussing the successes, challenges and what they would have done differently. More importantly, organisations will gain an insight as to why ACTED decided not to scale the pilot and what factors/conditions needed to be met in order for the model to scale.
About the presenter: Sadia Hussain is currently leading ‘Closing the Gap: Educating Marginalised Girls’ project in Pakistan at ACTED International in Pakistan. She has been extensively working in the field of educational research, implementation and evaluation for the past 20 years in Pakistan. She has been engaged with several girls’ education projects, especially for the marginalised and impoverished communities of the country.