All eligible applicants will benefit from the broader aspects of the EdTech Hub’s COVID-19 call including exposure to the Global Innovation Exchange and mEducation Alliance networks. Including an opportunity to pitch your idea at a COVID-19 EdTech Pitch Days, providing connections to world leading experts and donors.
In addition, selected applicants will be welcomed to join the HEA COVID-19 Cohort.
Ten teams will be invited to benefit from a virtual Learning Series Bootcamp. During this bootcamp, participants will be able to select a series of tailored workshops to provide feedback and mentorship on your solution. This bootcamp will provide guidance and mentorship on:
- how to test and iterate your solution with refugee hosting communities in a COVID-19 context;
- how to track your impact on learning outcomes;
- how to work with governments to scale your solution, and many more topics.
This bootcamp will form a learning series focused on forming partnerships for like-minded solutions, how to monitor your initiative, how to support opportunities for scale. Members from the mEducation Alliance, the EdTech Hub and UNHCR will serve as mentors along with guest experts from organizations such as ALNAP and ECW.
After completion of the Bootcamp, applicants will be provided an opportunity to adjust their proposal and 3 solutions will be selected for additional financing (up to 60,000 USD) to assist with scaling up your programme.
The three interventions will also receive further mentorship support from the HEA mentors and partners, in the form of a one-week sprint to help refine the scale-up.
We believe that there is no limit to what great ideas and talented entrepreneurs can do in partnership with educators and education systems in response to this problem.
M&E Mentoring & Support
The goals of the HEA remain to build stronger evaluation capacity amongst partners and to provide a stronger evidence base for innovative programming in general through rigorous research. In this manner, the COVID Cohort will not only be supported to adapt their solutions for refugee contexts but will also receive mentorship to document the results of their initiatives. To this end each team will be supported to:
- Design an updated ToC for their COVID context;
- Build a corresponding M&E framework to document the programme implementations with key performance indicators to track outcome results;
- Develop tools to monitor and document programme pivots and progress; and
- Help identify three research questions that cut across all selected grantees.
The HEA would also like to produce evidence through research on the overall impact of innovative solutions on the learning outcomes of students, and will explore how to develop an evaluation that looks across the different solutions provided.