IPA: COVID-19 Response Research

  • R Research Project/Report/Study

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

This project is a collaboration between Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), the Kenyan Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD), and Precision Development (PD). Together the partners are working to design, implement, and evaluate an interactive two-way SMS platform that enables children to complete math problems using even very basic phones. We are exploring how to disseminate the service through teachers as well as investigating how users engage with the service across a time period that includes school closures, vacation, and the return to school.

Separately, IPA has research and policy partnerships looking into distance learning across a number of different contexts and including multiple approaches: basic descriptive statistics, qualitative work, policy discussions, and full RCTs.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Kenyan Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD)
Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Skills
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Not applicable or unknown

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Educational Technology
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Increased numeracy
Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown

Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Sarah Kabay
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Education Director
skabay@poverty-action.org