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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. 

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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 to see our work in each.

  • Angola
  • Côte 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. 

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News & Blogs

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Education and Skills Data Challenge project begins kick-off meeting in Nigeria with development of action plan

Published on 11 November, 2025

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ADEA Highlights Role of Data in EdTech Transformation at Mastercard Foundation Convening

Published on 31 August, 2025

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EdTech Mondays - Investing in Government Data Systems to Drive Decision Making

Published on 7 April, 2025

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Bridging the skills divide in Africa

Published on 19 March, 2025

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Podcasts

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A55 Podcast - Closing the Data Gap in African Education

Published on 7 November, 2025

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EduCatalyst Africa - Tackling Education and Skills Data Challenge

Published on 14 October, 2025

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Let’s Talk Education Africa - Building Resilience in Africa's Education Data Systems

Published on 15 April, 2025

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Publications

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Building Data-Use Culture in Education - Explainer Series - April 2025

Published in April 2025

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Data Scarcity and Decision-Making in African Education - Explainer Series - March 2025

Published in March 2025

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Unlocking Data for Education Transformation - Explainer Series - February 2025

Published in February 2025

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Tackling Education and Skills Data Challenge in Africa - Project brief

Published in November 2024

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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
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