Partnership for Research on Progress and Resilience in Education (PREPARE)
A research consortium to study the effects of COVID-19 on education
About the partnership
PREPARE is a partnership between CGD and research organizations in Ghana, Senegal, Malawi, Kenya, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to produce policy-relevant, country-specific research and to bring experts from low- and middle-income countries into global debates.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—and its impact on education budgets and consequences for education systems—underscores the importance of arming policymakers with relevant evidence needed to make informed decisions. That is why CGD’s education program is launching the Partnership for Research on Progress and Resilience in Education (PREPARE), a consortium of research institutions who will work together to produce rigorous evidence on the most important education challenges posed by COVID-19.

A core goal of CGD’s education program is to foster substantive collaborations with research organizations in low- and middle-income countries, and PREPARE is a part of that effort. Under this collaboration, our partners are identifying the most policy-relevant questions and working with local policymakers to ensure that the answers are heard. We can help to ensure that global education discussions benefit from the rigorous analysis and more nuanced, global perspectives that their research will bring.

To begin, PREPARE partners based (initially) in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Senegal are focusing on the education challenges created by COVID-19. As schools reopen, policymakers need to work out how to ensure children can re-enrol safely, determine what learning has been lost and how to reverse this, and understand the potentially large differential impacts of the pandemic on girls and vulnerable groups.

Blogs

  • Assessing the Ripple Effects of COVID-19 on Education in Senegal
    When Senegal closed schools for nearly seven months because of COVID, it disrupted education for over 3.5 million learners. In our...
  • Reliance on Remote Learning Yields Little Gains in Malawi
    The state of learning in Malawi post-COVID-19 has been deemed a crisis, with primary school-aged learners unable to read basic tex...
  • COVID-19 School Closures Hit the Poorest the Hardest in Pakistan
    This blog explores the lasting impact of the pandemic on Pakistani school students. Shortages of cash and food at home were exacer...
  • How is the Pandemic Affecting Low-Cost Private Schools? Evidence from Nairobi
    When the pandemic struck, households faced economic shocks that persisted after schools reopened due to loss of employment. In the...
  • PREPARE Survey Data: Impact of COVID-19 on Education
    The latest survey data and instruments from the Partnership for Research on Progress and Resilience in Education (PREPARE), coveri...
  • What Happened to Student Participation After Two Rounds of School Closures in Malawi?
    Prolonged school closures during COVID-19 meant that over 7.7 million Malawian children were out of formal schooling for over seve...
  • How Did Students Recover Learning Loss During COVID-19 School Closures in Ghana?
    How much learning did children lose whilst schools were closed in 2020? Whilst hard data is still scarce, the opinions of parents ...
  • Senegalese Students after COVID School Closures
    CGD in collaboration with the Centre de recherche pour le développement économique et social (CRDES) conducted a face-to-face surv...
  • What Happened to Dropouts after COVID-19 in Ghana?
    Like most countries across the world, Ghana closed schools for long stretches of 2020. In this blog, we present findings from a na...
  • Research Consortium on Progress & Resilience in Education
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  • Five Findings from a New Phone Survey in Senegal
    Better data can help us have a better response for COVID, so we piloted a mobile phone survey on 1,000+ respondents in Senegal in ...
  • Should WASSCE Exams Be Overhauled Before They Restart?
    Earlier today the West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations were suspended due to the threat of COVID-19. The ca...

Contact

For more information, contact [email protected]

Contact

For more information, contact [email protected]

Experts

Esme Kadzamira
Ms. Esme Kadzamira is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Research & Training (CERT) of the University of Malawi. Prior to joining the University of Malawi, Esme wo...
Jack Rossiter
Jack Rossiter was a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research interests include the economics of education in developing countries, early learning, skills de...
Lee Crawfurd
Lee Crawfurd is a research fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research focuses on education policy in low and middle income countries. Previously he was an advisor wi...
Might Kojo Abreh
Might Kojo Abreh is a non-resident fellow at CGD and a research fellow with the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) – a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excell...
Moses Ngware
Moses Ngware is Senior Research Scientist, and Head of Education and Youth Empowerment research unit at the African Population and Health Research Center, where he has worked since...
Radhika Nagesh
Radhika Nagesh is a senior policy analyst within the Global Education team at the Center for Global Development. She is working on a portfolio of projects related to school feeding...
Rita Perakis
Rita Perakis was assistant director and senior policy analyst on CGD’s global education team. Previously she worked as a manager at Ark Education Partnerships Group where she was r...
Samba Mbaye
Samba Mbaye is a Full Professor at Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis Senegal. His research focuses on impact evaluations of development programs for the well-being and on the...
Susannah Hares
Susannah Hares was a senior policy fellow and director of CGD’s global education program. Before joining CGD, she spent seven years as Ark’s international director, where she was r...

Experts

  • Esme Kadzamira
    Ms. Esme Kadzamira is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Research & Training (CERT) of the University of Malawi. Prior to joining the University of Malawi, Esme wo...
  • Jack Rossiter
    Jack Rossiter was a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research interests include the economics of education in developing countries, early learning, skills de...
  • Lee Crawfurd
    Lee Crawfurd is a research fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research focuses on education policy in low and middle income countries. Previously he was an advisor wi...
  • Might Kojo Abreh
    Might Kojo Abreh is a non-resident fellow at CGD and a research fellow with the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) – a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excell...
  • Moses Ngware
    Moses Ngware is Senior Research Scientist, and Head of Education and Youth Empowerment research unit at the African Population and Health Research Center, where he has worked since...
  • Radhika Nagesh
    Radhika Nagesh is a senior policy analyst within the Global Education team at the Center for Global Development. She is working on a portfolio of projects related to school feeding...
  • Rita Perakis
    Rita Perakis was assistant director and senior policy analyst on CGD’s global education team. Previously she worked as a manager at Ark Education Partnerships Group where she was r...
  • Samba Mbaye
    Samba Mbaye is a Full Professor at Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis Senegal. His research focuses on impact evaluations of development programs for the well-being and on the...
  • Susannah Hares
    Susannah Hares was a senior policy fellow and director of CGD’s global education program. Before joining CGD, she spent seven years as Ark’s international director, where she was r...