Tackling Education and Skills Data Challenge in Africa

A new strategic partnership to strengthen education in Africa through data-driven decision making

About

The "Tackling Education and Skills Data Challenge in Africa" project is a five-year intervention implemented by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning (The Centre).

The project will support up to 30 African countries over a five-year period to produce and use quality data on education and skills for informed decision-making through policy, programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

		SDG 4.1.1: Achieving minimum proficiency level in foundational literacy and numeracy.
		SDG 4.3.1: Youth and adult participation in formal and non-formal education.
		SDG 4.a.1: Proportion of primary schools with access to internet for pedagogical purposes.

Countries

The Tackling Education and Data Skills Challenge in Africa project aims to support up to 30 African countries to provide quality data on education and skills for informed decision making in policy, planning, programme implementation, monitoring, and impact evaluation.

Since 2024, 11 countries have been engaged with five additional countries expected to be engaged in 2025. Browse the countries below to see our work in each.

Angola
Cote d'Ivoire
Kenya
Mauritius
Nigeria
Rwanda

Senegal
South Africa
Tanzania
The Gambia
Zambia

Impact

True to our promise to strengthen education in Africa through data-driven decision making, we believe in making an impact in Africa’s education system with relevant data for decision-making. In this regard, we believe in and leverage strategic partnerships and networking as a means to advocating and influencing policies for impactful and responsible decision-making in Africa’s education system. We believe that to make meaningful decisions, data must be placed at the heart of decision-making and must be driven by investment. Investing in education data yields the best interest.

Education should provoke and lead to transformational change in society and not only among beneficiary countries for the duration of the project.

Impact stories
Capacity strengthening
Strategic partnerships
Advocacy and Influencing

News & Blogs

Bridging the skills divide in Africa

Published on 19 March, 2025

How countries are improving learning achievements through enhanced production and use of education and skills data

Published on 13 March, 2025

By Inyang Udo-Umoren, Mina Okuru

Tackling Education and Skills Data Challenge in Africa project team embarks on country visits to deepen stakeholder collaboration

Published on 8 November, 2024

Mastercard Foundation to host inaugural Africa EdTech conference, in Abuja; ADEA to organize a technical session on the education and skills data challenge project

Published on 20 June, 2024

Tackling Education and Skills Data Challenge in Africa - Project brief

March 2025

Download: English

Unlocking Data for Education Transformation - Explainer Series - February 2025

February 2025

Download: English

Contact

Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
Immeuble CCIA Plateau, Avenue Jean-Paul II, 01 BP 1387, Abidjan 01, Côte d’Ivoire
Tel.: +225 2720263964
Email: adea@afdb.org
Website: www.adeanet.org