University of Minnesota's new grant as a Global Learning Partner

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Oxfam Denmark have announced the addition of four new Global Learning Partners to support Education Out Loud (EOL), the world’s largest education advocacy fund. The University of Minnesota has become one of them, with the team of Joan DeJaehere, Nancy Pellowski Wiger, Matt Schuelka, Chris Johnstone, and Aditi Arur (Christ University, India. 

As one of the partners, selected through a competitive process launched in January 2024, they will build upon the success of EOL's initial phase of collaboration with four research organizations between 2022-2024. Learning Partners work on strategic research themes across the entire portfolio of Education Out Loud partners. They work to ensure that research-based findings contribute to the sharing of learning as a global public good.

"Using an intersectional approach, we aim to create a learning and sharing space for integrating social inclusion and gender equality into educational policy and advocacy, both locally and globally." - Nancy Pellowski Wiger and Joan DeJaeghere, University of Minnesota.

About Education Out Loud

Working with organizations in more than 60 countries, Education Out Loud provides support for civil society to become active and influential in shaping education policy to better meet the needs of communities, especially the most marginalized.

Education Out Loud is a fund financed by GPE and managed by Oxfam Denmark. It aims to enhance civil society capacities to engage in education sector planning, policy dialogue and monitoring and to promote transparency and accountability of national education sector policy. Education Out Loud also seeks to create a stronger global and regional enabling environment for civil society advocacy and transparency efforts in education.