Hivos
For Support Of Twaweza
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Amount$8,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/17/2015
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Term51.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
Twaweza, a program sponsored by Hivos, is an ambitious effort in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to enable citizens to exercise agency, to promote greater openness and responsiveness by governments, and to improve basic learning for children. Twaweza’s main areas of work include (1) gathering data that gives voice to citizens, most notably through Uwezo, a citizen-led assessment of children’s learning; (2) gathering and generating evidence of what works in the domains of basic education and open government; and (3) using data and evidence to engage the public and policymakers for change. Twaweza has a strong commitment to sharing what it learns about citizen engagement with the broader field of transparency, participation and accountability.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.hivos.org
Address
Raamweg 12, The Hague, 2596 HL, Netherlands
Grants to this Grantee
for supporting citizen-led assessments worldwide
This grant will allow Hivos to support seven organizations implementing citizen-led assessments in nine countries to improve their work and increase its visibility. Hivos will also help interested organizations in new countries to learn about and begin piloting their own work on similar assessments as a way to engage citizens in advancing an agenda for better learning outcomes.
for supporting citizen-led assessments worldwide
This supplemental grant will allow Hivos to support seven organizations implementing citizen-led assessments in nine countries to improve their work and increase its visibility. Hivos will also help interested organizations in new countries to learn about and begin piloting their own work on similar assessments as a way to engage citizens in advancing an agenda for better learning outcomes.
for the implementation of a civil society assessment of student learning in East Africa
This grant to Hivos would provide continued support to Uwezo, a nationwide, citizen-led assessment of student learning in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Uwezo is the largest annual assessment of children’s learning in Africa; in 2012 alone Uwezo tested nearly 350,000 children in about 11,000 communities. The results have sparked national, regional, and global debates about the magnitude of the learning crisis for schoolchildren. This renewal grant would support the ongoing efforts to collect, analyze, and communicate the results of the nationwide learning assessment to stimulate citizen action and oversight in education and policy reform.
