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School Improvement Loans Linked to Positive Outcomes in Ghana and Uganda

by Opportunity EduFinance

Opportunity International’s Education Finance program (EduFinance) continuously incorporates learnings from key stakeholders at all levels to ensure our products and services are well aligned with the local needs of affordable private schools. Recently, as part of this commitment, we partnered with research organisation Three Stones International to conduct a multi-stakeholder assessment in Ghana and Uganda. The final report identified how schools use School Improvement Loans (SIL) and furthered…

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#IWD: Celebrating Women Leaders in Education

by Opportunity EduFinance

There is still a lot of work to do towards ensuring women and girls have equal opportunities to achieve their full potential in low- and middle-income countries. From access to quality education to equal representation in government, advocates continue to work tirelessly to close the gender gap. Today, Opportunity EduFinance celebrates the campaigners, educators, and role models that have helped us come this far and keep us focused on working for the equal rights of women and girls globally.  This…

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The $24 Billion Opportunity

by Opportunity EduFinance

Education is essential for the economic and social growth of individuals and society, and its benefits are far-reaching and well-documented.  For the individual, education enhances people’s ability to achieve higher earnings, live healthier lives, make more informed decisions and exercise their rights. For societies, education can improve social cohesion, foster innovation, promote economic growth and reduce poverty1. Despite global gains in education and a global drive towards UN adopted Sustainable…

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Opportunity International Education Quality Awards Announced

by EduFinance

This December, Opportunity International (OI) celebrates dedication to excellence in education, through the announcement of the Education Quality Awards (EdQ Awards) results. The awards recognise partner schools across Africa demonstrating outstanding levels of commitment to achieving and sustaining high quality education for their students. Renée McAlpin, Africa Coordinator of Education Quality, EduFinance says: “We are thrilled to acknowledge the hard work of these schools on their journey to…

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Opportunity EduFinance’s pathway to school improvement

by Faye Ruck-Nightingale

  This week Opportunity EduFinance has been running an Introductory Seminar in Kampala, Uganda bringing 48 new schools into its Education Quality programme. A further 42 will be inducted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania next week adding to the 800 schools Opportunity's Education Quality programme already serves. For these seminars one of the key areas of focus is Pathways to Excellence. Pathways to Excellence (P2E) is a guide for school development planning which was developed and launched by Opportunity…

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Opportunity EduFinance’s support of private education in the developing world

by Faye Ruck-Nightingale

  At Opportunity EduFinance our absolute focus to help all children access a quality education.  Our School Fee Loans help kids access both public and private schools. Our School Improvement Loans help affordable private schools improve education access and quality provision for their local communities. We support private schools as we believe they fill the gap of accessibility where public schools are too large or too far away.  We believe locally founded and run affordable private schools are…

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What happens when we take the time to learn from one another?

by Faye Ruck-Nightingale

Imagine you are an entrepreneur struggling with getting your business off the ground. You are sharing every day’s challenges and wins with yourself and your team, but no one else. Imagine that many people around you are going through the same process, trials and tribulations. Imagine that they too feel alone in their entrepreneurial adventure. Imagine you don’t have access to these other people, you don’t know they exist, you don’t know what they’ve learned, or how they’ve done things…

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Providing access to bathrooms, helping girls continue their education

by Faye Ruck-Nightingale

  To date Opportunity EduFinance has helped over 2 million students in low income countries to secure access to affordable, quality, private education. Of those approximately 1 million are girls. This school in Uganda is just one of the hundreds of schools across the world joining Opportunity EduFinance in helping the children who need it most.  One of the most important, and insightful, parts to my role, involves visiting and talking to Opportunity EduFinance clients to get a deeper understanding…

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Colombia: A story of resilience and resolutions to improve early childhood education

by Faye Ruck-Nightingale

Efforts in early childhood education have been found to be among of some of the greatest return on investment in human capital activities. Every dollar invested into early childhood education has a significantly higher potential of minimizing the achievement gap, improving health and increasing lifetime earnings, compared to investments later in the scholastic journey.[i] Each additional year of school can add up to 12% to a woman’s income and 10% to a man’s,[ii] early childhood education plays…

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Microfinance and Child Protection can – and do – work together!

by Sarah Morgan

Sarah Morgan is Opportunity International’s Child Protection expert.  She joined Opportunity UK in 2015 after eight years with Save the Children in Laos. Sarah has been advising Opportunity EduFinance on best practice and policy for Child Protection; in particular, our Education Quality field operations teams, the schools they work with, and some of our MFI partners.  Sarah shares her recent experience of running Child Protection training in Uganda:- “Earlier this year I was excited to be working…

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