Education & training

January, 2025

Strengthening local research capacity to improve education decision-making in Africa

January 31| Online | By the Partnership for Economic Policy

The Africa Fellows in Education Program (AFEP) enhances local research capacity for better education decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa. The 2024-25 cohort of ten fellows conducts research on key education challenges, including language policy and learning outcomes. Through training and networking, AFEP empowers researchers to influence policy and drive reforms.

Education & training

Youth participate in a group activity as part of a gender training session

Gender-sensitive training can improve youth’s labour-market outcomes in Kenya

Despite a long history of technical, vocational education, and training (TVET) in Kenya...

June, 2024

Soft skills boost job prospects and pay for young women in informal sector

By Laura Barasa, Kibrom Abay, Maria Laura Alzua and Phyllis Machio

PEP researchers share how gender-sensitive soft-skills training can improve young women and men's labor market empowerment, and well-being outcomes.

Education & training

Gender & women's empowerment

Labor markets & employment

November, 2023

Reshaping the Education Policy Landscape in Africa

By the Partnership for Economic Policy

Getting to know the Africa Fellows in Education Program, the fellows and their work.

Education & training

Woman sorting cashew berries

Market information voice messages increase revenues for Guinea-Bissau’s cashew producers

Cashew nut production and commercialization is the main income source for a large porti...

Free childcare program improves mothers’ employment outcomes in Mongolia

Women’s labor force participation (LFP) in Mongolia is declining, especially in the cap...

Trust in local ambassadors helps encourage mobile banking in rural Peru

In 2015, the Peruvian government introduced measures to address the low levels of finan...

Parental migration significantly reduces children’s school performance in rural Cambodia

Millions of Cambodians are migrating in search of work, many leaving their children beh...

Improving job matching for Zambia's youth

Only about 55% of employed youth in Zambia have jobs that match their level of edu...

Improving cognitive skills for non-farm entrepreneurial productivity and growth in Indonesia

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute 60% of GDP and occupy 97% of the workfor...

Easing school to work transitions in Benin

It can take up to four years after leaving school for young people in Benin to find the...

Combining credit and training to support micro and small enterprises in Ethiopia

Over the last two decades, the government of Ethiopia has implemented various training ...

The impact of increased public spending on education in Cambodia

Cambodia is currently facing a skills shortage, creating a mismatch of skills between i...

The impact of child and youth work on school performance in Brazil

Despite a significant improvement in school attendance Brazil continues to lag behind o...

Impact of credit counseling on the entrepreneurial behavior of Ugandan youth

With three-quarters of the Ugandan population under the age of 30 and high levels of yo...

The impact of vocational training programs on youth unemployment in Mongolia

High levels of unemployment, particularly amongst youth, pose a significant problem in ...

Education language choice and youth entrepreneurship in Chad

Selected for support under the first round of the PEP-PAGE initiative, this project exa...

Scaling up education interventions in Kenya: the importance of institutions

One of the proposed policy options to address the issue of quality of education  (...

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