The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) is pleased to announce its seventh call for proposals on using technology to advance learning and skill development among vulnerable children, adolescents, and youth.
In many contexts around the world, children, adolescents, and youth face enormous obstacles when it comes to learning and skill development. War, protracted conflict, and displacement cut off regular access to classrooms; they also generate toxic levels of stress that can directly impede learning. Climate hazards and natural disasters disrupt access to school and learning within. Children with special needs and disabilities often cannot benefit from the infrastructure, pedagogical approaches, and learning materials offered through education systems in low- and middle-income countries.
Through this current call for proposals, SIEF will continue to build research that is both rigorous and relevant for policy. The focus of this seventh call for proposals will include:
(i) the use of technology to accelerate learning and skill development among children, adolescents, or youth who have been displaced from their homes or who are living in contexts characterized by fragility, violence, or conflict;
(ii) the use of technology to accelerate learning and skill development among children with special needs or disabilities;
(iii) interventions that use technology to understand how to protect the learning of children, adolescents, or youth from climate hazards or decrease the sensitivity of learning to these hazards.
We encourage you to apply and pass this announcement to others who might be interested, particularly those who can quickly generate useful and actionable information on how to use technology to accelerate learning and skill development for children, adolescents and youth most in need.
- Call for proposals
- Short application (Due on February 10, 2025)
For any questions that are not answered in the call for proposals, please send an email with “SIEF Call 7 query” in the subject line to siefimpact@worldbank.org.