Women Educational Researchers of Kenya

This grant would help enable a network of organizations in Kenya to work collectively to promote learning as the metric of success in education. The Women’s Educational Researchers of Kenya would coordinate the network, leading three main activities: first, facilitating information sharing across members of the network; second, coordinating communications messaging that helps focus the education debate on improving children’s competencies; and third, using the global debate on what education goals should be post-2015 to promote the learning agenda locally and, vice versa, using local successes to influence the global dialogue.

The Hewlett Foundation has been supporting a handful of grantees who are engaged in one way or another in advocating for learning goals to be incorporated in the post-2015 global development framework, including the Women Educational Researchers of Kenya (WERK). This grant would enable WERK to convene all of these grantees to share information about global and country-level discussions on post-2015 and to develop strategies and tactics for their post-2015 advocacy.