PhD Candidate at @AU_SIS | Researcher at @AcctResearchCtr | Interested in all things education, mobilization, foreign aid, and Africa | @FulbrightPrgrm
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Teachers implement edu policy. However, teachers' unions are often excluded from formal policy forums. As part of @AcctResearchCtr's Learning Partnership w/ Education Out Loud, @Tauya01 and I met with unions in Zimbabwe to learn how they influence policy. bit.ly/3NenAY4
Teachers' unions are often among the best organized & representative civil society actors. But they are often not there when education policy reforms are discussed. New brief from @AbrehetGG & @tauya01 looks at their role in education advocacy in Zimbabwe bit.ly/3NenAY4
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Citizen monitoring can work in tandem with legislative oversight based on mutually reinforcing agendas. @joyaceron_ph and I discuss the case of Multiply-Ed in the Philippines in this new Accountability Note on how citizens action can boost existing oversight mechanisms.
New Accountability Note! How can civil society network and an official state oversight body interface for a shared agenda of systemic education reform? @joyaceron_ph & @AbrehetGG share a case study from the Philippines bit.ly/4f3yVHm
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On this #internationaldayofeducation2025, we celebrate the role of civil society organizations in shaping education policy and share analysis of how that role is changing.
Thanks to Education Out Loud, @OxfamDanmark , and the @GPforEducation, our team spent two years learning with and from civil society organizations advocating for the right to education in the global South.
📷 The Role of Civil Society in National Education Policy in the Global South (@AbrehetGG & @nomhossain) sketches the landscape of changing civil society engagement in education policy as civic space in many countries has contracted, and reflects on new actors entering the education policy ecosystem. bit.ly/3S0IAn5
New civil society actors and strategies in education are spotlighted in two briefs and a blog:
📷 Bangladesh's New Generation of Youth-Led Education Civil Society: Prospects for Reinvigorating Education Reform (Naomi Hossain and Rafsanul Hoque) bit.ly/3ONfvdF
📷 Rethinking Reform: The Role of Teachers' Unions in Education Advocacy in Zimbabwe (@AbrehetGG and @Tauya01 ) bit.ly/3NenAY4
📷 Civil Society Advances Education Funding Through Tax Justice and Debt Relief Advocacy (@ihcus7 ) bit.ly/4107IQT
Essential insights into national level interactions between civil society and the state in education policy.
Image: It's Humanity Foundation's School in a Bus is one of the innovations by the new generation of education civil society actors. Credit: Shaharul Islam
#EducationDay2025 #educationday #internationaleducationday
Excellent piece by @nomhossain and Rafsanul Hoque that interrogates our assumptions on the future of youth-led civil society and advocacy reform in education, looking at innovative solutions to improving education quality in Bangladesh. @GPforEducation
The dramatic student-led movement to restore Bangladesh’s democracy showed the strength of its organized youth. New brief from @nomhossain & Rafsanul Hoque analyzes significance of a new generation of youth-led civil society actors working on education bit.ly/3ONfvdF
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Heavy debt burdens in low-income countries divert funds from education.
Over 30 GPE partner countries spend half their education budgets on debt repayments.
In Nepal, GPE #EducationOutLoud supports tax justice and debt relief advocacy to boost education funding 👇
We worked with @ecozim, and spoke with a diverse group of stakeholders at national level teachers' unions such as @zimta01, @ProgressiveOf, and @ARTUZ_teachers as well as gov officials to capture the perspectives both from and about unions and their advocacy agendas and tactics.
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Pleased to share an article that I wrote for OECD series on the next frontier of citizen participation. Comments welcome!
@jonathanfox707 @AcctResearchCtr @karen_v_brock @FischerMackey @nanis0914 @AbrehetGG @OpenBudgets @OpenGovHub @TAICollab @UNODCCSU @anticorruption @U4_ACRC
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just reieased this latest blog article of G-Watch Convenor-Director @joyaceron_ph on constructive accountability.
To read her full article, simply click the link below.
oecd.org/en/blogs/2024/09/ne…
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Learning from grassroots justice workers about not only to counter repression, but how to advance a deeper version of democracy - a worthwhile read for #IDD2024
Worried about #authoritarianism & democratic backsliding?
Our specialist, @PoorviChitalkar, shares hope. In tough contexts, #grassrootsjustice advocates are fighting repression, defending the rule of law, & building deeper #democracy.
Read the report 👉: ow.ly/Qx7Y50SIuLv
Excited to be on the job market at #APSA2024! I study the politics of education, foreign aid, and Africa. I'm presenting on two panels, including my job market paper. Please reach out if you're hiring in comparative politics, int'l relations, or edu policy abrehetgebremedhin.com/
My 1st panel presentation on Thursday is on the presence of populist rhetoric in aid-recipient countries, with @SusannaCampbell, @karstendonnay, and @hjswedlund. We use large language models to determine the conditions under which African leaders use anti-aid populist rhetoric.
My 2nd panel at #APSA2024 on Saturday is my job market paper on the dynamics of elite cohesion, indoctrination, and mobilization in secondary school access in nondemocracies. Happy to chat about all things education, aid, and Africa!
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Do education policies shape political inequality?🤔 In our article @cps_journal with @Na_Wehl, we argue & find that they do! doi.org/10.1177/001041402412…
Here's why:
1) schools are important socialization environments: people spend much time there during impressionable years
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"We need to transform our society [so that] people understand who to hold accountable & actually hold those people accountable." Powerful words from @joyaceron_ph on the reversals this demands & the transformative power of popular education
g-watch.org/think-piece/acco…
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New article: patterns of #localization in USAID's Colombia program. @jonathanfox707 & @jeffrey_hallock discuss the strengths & limitations of public disclosure of data on US aid & analyze open data on funding priorities & direct local funding levels
doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12796
Folks often forgot that access to quality education is hard-won and civil society is on the (risky) front line. @nomhossain, @fhevia and I have written a new blog for the @GPforEducation, informed by our work at the @AcctResearchCtr on the Education Out Loud program.
Civil society advocates for the right to learn with remarkable, but little-noted success: When a global norm is established, it can be difficult to see the work it took to get there.
@AcctResearchCtr looked into the role of civil society in education: g.pe/UoH750S4mJN
ALT What difference can you make as an education activist?
Great to read public questioning about the (distinct) purposes of education at different levels and governments’ differing interests in controlling access to quality, public education for often marginalized or forgotten groups.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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A bold conclusion from our research for @GPforEducation: in its golden era after the Cold War, civil society succeeded in establishing the global norm that education really is FOR ALL.
Against all the cynicism, sometimes organized people power does succeed. @fhevia @AbrehetGG
New blog! Civil society played a crucial role in establishing the norm that education really is for all, but the political context has changed. Learn about the questions this raises in new @GPforEducation blog by @nomhossain @fhevia & @AbrehetGG
globalpartnership.org/blog/e…
Looking forward to chatting about my PhD dissertation on drivers of Ethiopian education policy at the #instituteofethiopianstudies @AddisAbabaUni on Tuesday, April 30th.
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Please, in your busy day today, spare a moment to remember the 1,134 workers who were killed and the thousands more who were maimed and traumatized so we could have disposable clothing. #RanaPlaza
Forgetting Rana Plaza | From Poverty to Power frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/for…
