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Distilling Lesson Study: Understanding Violation of Right to Education & Inclusion and Strategies adopted by national education coalitions
Asia-Pacific Regional Management Unit, Education Out Loud
1.1 About Education Out Loud
Education Out Loud (EOL) is largest global advocacy and social accountability fund of the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) which was launched in 2020. This fund is Managed by Oxfam Denmark globally to ensure organizations are supported to work toward the goal of EOL. EOL is committed to support civil society organizations to become active and influential in shaping education policy, strengthen transparency and accountability in national education policy processes, and ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.The EOL program has three specific objectives:
Objective 1: Strengthen national civil society engagement in inclusive and gender responsive education policy development, implementation, and monitoring.
Objective 2: Strengthen civil society roles in promoting the transparency and accountability of national education sector policy and implementation.
Objective 3: Create an enabling transnational environment for civil society policy advocacy and transparency efforts in education.
In practice, EOL operates through three operational components: – Operational Component 1 (OC1): Supporting national education coalitions to engage in policy dialogue and promote transparency and accountability; Operational Component 2 (OC2): Strengthening civil society organisations’ ability to undertake strategic, evidence-based policy advocacy; Operational Component 3 (OC3): Supporting transnational civil society alliances to carry out cross-country advocacy and policy influencing. Under these operational components, over 80 organizations are supported in over 60 countries in Asia & Pacific, Africa and Latin Ameria; these organizations include National Education Coalitions, National Civil Society Organizations, Transnational Alliances. The EOL is managed through 4 regional management units (Asia& Pacific, Eastern Africa, Western Africa and Latin America) by Oxfam Denmark.
1.2 What is a national education coalition in Asia and Pacific?
National Education Coalitions (NECs) are membership-based coalition of civil society organisations that leads and work in policy influencing transparency and accountability in education in respective countries. The nature and types of membership vary from country to country, but often include national CSOs working in education sector at local or national level, Teachers’ Unions, Student organisations, organizations working on the issue of inclusive education, disabled children, youth, etc. Each NEC run through a small secretariat that work through its board and members to engage with government, policy makers, and other stakeholders for engaging in policy dialogue and processes, collecting evidence, monitoring education plan implementation, identifying gaps and learning to inform and support national and provincial governments. All NECs are members of the Global Campaign for Education and Asia South Pacific Association for Basic Education (ASPBAE).
In Asia and Pacific Region, EOL has supported NECs in 18 countries with the focus of supporting national education coalitions to engage in policy dialogue, promote transparency and accountability. In last 6 years, national education coalitions in Asia region have engaged, influenced, advocated with national & federal government on variety of education policy issues, mainly access to education for marginalized children (girls and disabled), increased budget and expenditure for education, gender responsive education policies and plan, Education for disabled children, teacher education, climate education, mother tongue based education, etc. The key approaches used by NECs are evidence generation through community, public events and program, campaigns and dialogues, meetings with govt and building awareness amongst community and local organizations through training and events.
One of the key mandates of national education coalition and other national organizations (operational under component 2) have been to identify, track and monitor right to education violations in the country to ensure rights are ensured. As per reports, NECs have been active and adopted various approaches to identify these cases and working to ensure the rights of children are fulfilled by the government and duty bearers.
2. Scope of Work
The earlier documentations undertaken by Global learning partners of EOL have acknowledged role of NECs in identifying cases of violation in the region and provide a broad and generic understanding of the issue as well as lessons that can support other organizations. Therefore, it is of strategic importance to understand regional specification and lessons supported by specific examples and strategies to provide more holistic and deep learning on the issue. This becomes important because NECs and organizations have deployed diverse strategies to identify, collect, monitor and voicing to ensure fulfillment of right to education which should be further understood better to support their work and future strategies. In this context, EOL (Asia and Pacific region management unit) would like to commission a qualitative distilling lesson study (desk review + primary sources) with an aim to draw in-depth analysis of case of violation for drawing evidence, gathering knowledge and drafting lessons/principles guided by human rights framework. Furthermore, this study expects to understand and identify utilization of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) framework by NECs in their organization along with their policy work.
The distilling learning process and framing of study will be inspired by following key learning questions:
3. Proposed Design and Approach
The potential research- learning partner/ organizations is expected to develop a robust qualitative analytical design for distilling lessons considering above questions and below mentioned stated focus of the proposed study.
Focus Area 1: Protecting the Right to Education
Civil society organisations across Asia-Pacific operate in diverse contexts that are shaped by conflict, political instability, systemic discrimination, climate shocks, and shrinking civic space where children right to education are denied frequently. These conditions have resulted in violations of the right to education in the form of school closures, forced dropouts, child marriage, poor school conditions, quality of education, child abuse, out of schools, etc. . These violations exist because of weak system commitment along with deep rooted socio-culture milieu. Despite these challenges, NECs have been working with local and national governments along with local community to identify, report, monitor and address these issues using various approaches and actions and have been successful in ensuring right to education for children. Some of the example basis analysis of NECs monitoring report indicates following:
By analysing these practical tools and approach used by NECs, the study will highlight how NECs have identified, prioritized, developed and operationalized strategies for advacning the right to education across policy, implementation, and accountability levels in their context and this will eventually offer testedl lessons for peer coalitions in the region.
Focus Area 2: Learning to Include – Institutionalising Inclusion in Organization and Policies
While inclusion is central to EOL’s mandate, global studies have focused mainly on sensitive identity-based advocacy or broad indices. Less is known about how NECs in Asia-Pacific are institutionalizing GESI both internally (organizational systems) and externally (policy engagement and reform processes) in their advocacy approach and for education sector reforms. Hence, the study is required to explore and collect lessons around:
Examples include:
By documenting these practices, the study will provide NECs with practical models for embedding inclusion in both organisational and thematic advocacy, complementing but not duplicating global studies.
Key Data Source: The study will be largely based on review and analysis of EOL-Bi-annual narrative reports submitted by NECs between the period of January 2024-June 2026. Other sources to support this distilling exercise will be relevant publications developed by NECs. The insights and analysis generated through desk review need to be supported by FGD/ Key informant interviews (virtually) with identified NECs to deepen and validate analysis.
Relevance and dissemination: The objectives of proposed study are closely aligned with the EOL Learning Framework, ensuring that regional learning contributes uniquely to global knowledge while being directly relevant to NECs. The study findings will support NECs in reflecting on best practices and gaps in their approach to right to education; and ensuring that those are further strengthened. The lesson learnt will support other NECs to reflect on their work through concrete, context-specific examples from other contexts. The findings of the lesson learnt will be shared with all NECs in the region for its further uptake and reflection.
4. Key Processes and Actions
It is expected that identified learning partner/consultant will be required to undertake rigorous and scientific processes through synthesis and lesson extraction to distill lesson on context specific cases and approaches. Some of proposed key processes will be as follows:
5. Expected Deliverables
6. Timeline
June 2026- December 2026
7. Payment schedule
The payment plan for the assignment will be structured as follows:
8. Management and supervision of the assignment
The Regional Management Unit (RMU) in Asia Pacific will manage and provide necessary guidance to the assignment with regular guidance from the Regional Education and MEL Advisor. Periodic meetings will be held with the learning partner to understand emerging trends, progress and provide feedback.
9. Qualification and Experience of Applicant
The assignment may be undertaken by an individual or a team or an organization. The ideal research/learning partner will have:
Read more about EOL here: https://www.educationoutloud.org/who-we-are/purpose-and-how-we-work
We look forward to your submission via email to EOL Regional Management Unit, Asia Pacific through RMUAP24@gmail.com within 3 weeks from the date of adverstiment.
For any questions and or clarifications to the study can be sent to gev@oxfam.dk within a week of advertisement.
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