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The Education Equity Research Initiative is a collaborative partnership that connects organizations and individuals committed to building stronger evidence and knowledge for improving solutions for equity in and through education.

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Featured Work
Education Equity Indicators for Access: Guidance for Practitioners in Crisis and Conflict-Affected Contexts
Access Equity Interventions Matrix
2018-2019 Workplan - Education Equity Research Initiative
Education Equity Research Initiative (fact sheet)
Handbook on Measuring Equity in Education
Education Equity Research Initiative at CIES 2018!
Equity Initiative Newsletter - November 2017
Mainstreaming Equity in Education
Structured Questions for Equity Analysis
Equity Initiative Newsletter - August 2017

Work Streams

Measurement and Metrics

  • What are the dimensions of inequality?
  • What tools do we need?

Learning and Retention

  • Who is left behind?
  • How many disabled children are enrolled? How many don't have access?

Conflict and Fragility

  • What works for building skills in conflict & fragility?

Finance and Resource Allocation

  • What are the links between finance and equity?

Research

Featured
Conflict and Fragility
Education Equity Indicators for Access: Guidance for Practitioners in Crisis and Conflict-Affected Contexts
Conflict and Fragility

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to USAID missions, other donors, and implementing organizations operating in crisis and conflict-affected environments for the development of project indicators and metrics to measure equity of access to educational opportunities.

Conflict and Fragility
Conflict and Fragility
Access Equity Interventions Matrix
Conflict and Fragility

This is an active spreadsheet of the matrix of program interventions in crisis and conflict-affected contexts developed to inform the Education Equity Indicators for Access guidance that constitutes a more detailed and sortable matrix, including references to available studies on the interventions.

Conflict and Fragility
Learning and Retention
Terms of Reference for the Task Team on Gender
Learning and Retention

Terms of Reference for the Equity Initiative Task Team on Gender.

Learning and Retention
General
2018-2019 Workplan - Education Equity Research Initiative
General

Priority areas, objectives, and key activities to guide the work of the Equity Initiative and its working groups and task teams for its third year.

General
Measurement and Metrics
Handbook on Measuring Equity in Education
Measurement and Metrics

A new report shows how countries can measure the education progress of the most marginalized populations to ensure no one is left behind.

Measurement and Metrics
Education Finance, General
Mainstreaming Equity in Education
Education Finance, General

Issues Paper Commissioned by the International Education Funders Group
 

Education Finance, General
Learning and Retention
Structured Questions for Equity Analysis
Learning and Retention

A common set of Structured Questions for Equity Analysis to guide organizations in their analysis of education datasets.

Learning and Retention
Conflict and Fragility
Terms of Reference: Conflict & Fragility Landscape Annex and Standard Equity Indicators
Conflict and Fragility

This is the Terms of Reference for the Conflict & Fragility Annex to Equity Initiative Landscape Review and Development of Standard Education Equity Indicators for Conflict & Fragility Contexts.

Conflict and Fragility
Learning and Retention
Terms of Reference for the Task Team on Disability
Learning and Retention

This is the terms of reference for the Equity Initiative Task Team on Disability as part of the Learning and Retention work stream.

Learning and Retention
Measurement and Metrics
Practical Recommendations for Equity Analysis in Education
Measurement and Metrics

The Measurement and Metrics working group built off their landscape review to produce practical recommendations of best practice standards for measuring key equity dimensions.

Measurement and Metrics
Education Finance
Fair Financing: Education Finance Policy for Equity
Education Finance

This report presents the findings from a literature review of the current policies and practices for financing equity in education, as part of the Finance and Resource Allocation work stream of the Education Equity Research Initiative.

Education Finance
Education Finance
Fair Financing: Policy Compendium Brief
Education Finance

This brief provides an overview of the policy compendium spreadsheet that was developed to inform the The Fair Financing: Education Finance Policy for Equity Literature Review.

Education Finance

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