Brink Foundation
Gender and Learning Evidence Fund
We have found researchers and implementers to innovate with us. Over the next two years, six teams distributed across five African countries will be addressing gender and learning together and measuring both sets of outcomes, in the years when girls' and boys' outcomes start to pull apart.
Meet the granteesWhere the work is happening
Every grantee is using implementation research to test and learn, in the systems they already work in.
Hover over a country to see the team based there, and select it to open their profile.
- Côte d'Ivoire · Nigeria
Teaching at the Right Level Africa
How might we design TaRL classrooms where gender no longer predicts participation, engagement or learning outcomes?
- Nigeria
Kizazi
How might we adapt government coaching, supervision and school leadership systems to ensure boys and girls learn, participate and progress equitably?
- Nigeria
Centre for Girls' Education
How might we identify what most drives secondary school transition to guide government investment in effective support?
- Ethiopia
Center for Evidence Synthesis, Support & Development in Africa
How might we integrate peer-assisted learning into existing gender clubs in Oromia to improve foundational learning and retention for girls and boys?
- Kenya
Girl Child Network
How might we integrate gender clubs with TaRL+ accelerated learning to improve foundational literacy, numeracy, and Grade 6-to-7 transition rates in ASALs?
- Mozambique
Girl Move Academy
How might near-peer mentoring circles contribute to shifts in girls' agency, vocational clarity and gender beliefs, and how might these shifts interact with learning outcomes?
Why we exist
Learning drives life outcomes and gender shapes who gets to benefit from it.
Address learning without gender, and you leave the challenge intact. Address gender without learning, and you change attitudes without changing lives.
Girls often match or outpace boys in early primary. Then, somewhere in the transition to upper primary or secondary school, the picture changes. By adulthood, the challenges in labour market outcomes, health, and decision-making are stark and gendered.
Read the big pictureLatest thinking
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Evidence synthesis · PDF
The Big Picture: what we know about gender and learning
The evidence base behind the Fund, drawn together into one scan of where the challenge begins and what has been shown to address it.
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The psychology of next-century grantmaking
Funders as goal-setters, intermediaries as coaches, grantees as strategic partners. Why the relationships around the money decide what the money does.