US-EIN-20-8530747-Participation and Messaging Results for Development About the Activity 'Participation & Messaging (PM)': 1) What is PM? - Technology to promote participation in school. The challenge facing the education sector, a significant number of children are out of school worldwide and this situation has been exacerbated by the impact of Covid-19. Many of the most marginalised who were previously enrolled in schools are at risk of never returning. Our goal is to end simplistic approaches to messaging: Messaging is considered to be the most cost-effective means of increasing Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS). However, the evidence for this is limited and there is a lack of understanding regarding the factors that make messaging more or less effective in certain contexts. This combination means that policymakers tend to invest in messaging in overly simplistic ways, assuming it to be a silver bullet. Clear evidence on how messaging should be used in different contexts will increase the impact it has on participation and learning outcomes.2) Guiding question - How can nudge technologies and messaging apps be used to re-engage students, reduce the number of out-of-school children, and improve learning outcomes? EdTech Hub is a global research partnership supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the World Bank. The partnership's goal is to empower the people making decisions about technology in education. EdTech Hub works across five focus areas that technology could support: girls’ education, teacher professional development, promoting participation, personalised learning and improving data collection, analysis and planning to improve learning outcomes. EdTech Hub was established to tackle the problem of a lack of clear evidence. Technology has the potential to help address the global learning crisis, but that potential is not being realised. Policymakers and other decision-makers face an overwhelming choice of technology solutions, are unclear on what works and what doesn’t and are forced to make decisions based on low or no evidence.EdTech Hub, undertakes rigorous academic research and gives evidence-based advice about how to use technology in education. With EdTech Hub’s help decision-makers inside and outside government can make clear, evidence-based policy decisions to achieve maximum impact. AFRILAB Brink Innovation Ltd Jigsaw ODI Sales Limited Open Development Educaton University of Cambridge EdTech Hub started 28/05/2019, but novated to R4D on 12/03/2021. R4D & EdTech Hub Gina Lagomarsino R4D President & HUB Project Management +12024705720 glagomarsino@r4d.org https://edtechhub.org/ 239419.7 309062 268873.15 8223 36933.76 Quarter 1 (Apr-Jun) Financial Year 2021/22 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 78475 Quarter 1 (Apr-Jun) Financial Year 2022/23 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 20618 Quarter 1 (Apr-Jun) Financial Year 2023/24 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 250 Quarter 1 (Apr-Jun) Financial Year 2024/25 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 60615.61 Quarter 2 (Jul-Sep) Financial Year 2021/22 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 93617 Quarter 2 (Jul-Sep) Financial Year 2022/23 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 75091 Quarter 2 (Jul-Sep) Financial Year 2023/24 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 6473 Quarter 2 (Jul-Sep) Financial Year 2024/25 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 41653.32 Quarter 3 (Sep-Dec) Financial Year 2021/22 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 67874 Quarter 3 (Sep-Dec) Financial Year 2022/23 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 59295 Quarter 3 (Sep-Dec) Financial Year 2023/24 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 0 Quarter 3 (Sep-Dec) Financial Year 2024/25 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 100217.02 Quarter 4 (Jan-Mar) Financial Year 2021/22 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 101195 Quarter 4 (Jan-Mar) Financial Year 2022/23 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred 102221 Quarter 4 (Jan-Mar) Financial Year 2023/24 - EdTech Hub - Participation and Messaging - expenditure incurred Promoting participation through messaging: return to school for girls and marginalised learners Raising readers: Can mobile technology enable Kenyan schools to improve parent and carer engagement in reading with their children? The EdTech Hub Evidence Library