The Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi) is calling for application submissions for the first edition of the State of Youth-Led Innovation in Education Report 2020.
This is with the aim to share success stories as well as challenges of the top 50 identified projects; with the hope to attract capacity-building opportunities, ranging from funding to mentoring, and to receive support in scaling the solutions.
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This is an initiative that seeks to identify, showcase, harmonize, and celebrate various inspiring and transformative youth-led educational responses to COVID19 in Nigeria. With an overarching goal of documenting and projecting the inspirational leadership and ingenuity of young people as crucial front liners and pacesetters in educational development, the annual report will chronicle diverse perspectives and dynamics of youth-led innovation and entrepreneurial leadership within the local educational sector as it applies to efforts geared at improving policy, practice, and research.
Background Of The Education Report 2020
As a driving force in shaping a sustainable and inclusive future, tapping into the creativity of young people is essential to deliver ground-breaking solutions to boost sustainable development, particularly in ensuring equitable access to quality education. It is unarguable that complex development challenges like the COVID19 pandemic require an effort to go beyond traditional approaches and in these times, young people have proven to be energetic, passionate, and ambitious individuals with the zeal and understanding to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges.
More than 40 million learners in Nigeria were affected by the nationwide school closures, of which over 91 percent are primary and secondary school learners. Nonetheless, it is inspiring to see how young people are organising within communities, mobilising resources, and designing innovative strategies to ensure alternative educational and distance learning opportunities are accessible to students and children.
The report, therefore, will highlight 50 most outstanding youth-led non-profits, social enterprises, and projects that have inspired transformational leadership and radical innovation in ensuring learning never stops despite school closures within the COVID19 pandemic era.
Benefits Of The Education Report 2020
By participating in the reports, some of the benefits include;
- International exposure and global reach
- Showcasing of work at global educational events
- Becoming a part of a growing community of practice and support
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Eligibility Criteria
In order to qualify, projects must:
- Be addressing the varying access challenges which are prevalent in the COVID-19 context
- Be innovative, game-changing ideas that have the potential to build transformative change in education.
- Demonstrate potential to be scaled up during and beyond the recovery phase of education post-COVID, and
- Be cost-effective in solving the challenge(s) it seeks to address.
This initiative aims to share success stories as well as challenges of the top 50 identified projects; with the hope to attract capacity-building opportunities, ranging from funding to mentoring, and to receive support in scaling the solutions.
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The deadline for the Education Report 2020 is August 28, 2020. If you have innovative ideas and wants to feature in the program, apply using this link; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmDSMYEkVabD23OzIycevkB05Hwfc3eYyozHseMh_lRS_7NQ/viewform
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