Education Out Loud is the world’s largest fund supporting both civil society advocacy and accountability for education with a funding envelope of US$133 million. $^1$

Financed by Global Partnership for Education, Education Out Loud is managed by Oxfam Denmark and overseen by GPE’s Board of Directors. $^1$

EOL goals and objectives

• Contribute to promotion of inclusive, gender responsive and equitable national education policies and systems through enhanced civil society capacities and participation in social accountability and policy advocacy processes.

It’s divided into 3 operational components

OC1: National Education coalitions $^2$

Strengthen national civil society engagement in inclusive and gender responsive education policy development, implementation and monitoring

In early 2020, 54 National Education Coalitions from 54 different countries were each awarded a grant from Education Out Loud. The current EOL Operational Component 1 covers a total of 60 National Education Coalitions.

The Coalitions had earlier received grants from the Civil Society Education Fund under Global Partnership for Education. Through EOL they are continuing their efforts in strengthening civil society engagement in education planning, policy dialogue and monitoring at a national level.

OC2: National Education Coalitions $^3$

Strengthen civil society's role in monitoring and improving transparency and accountability in national education policies and implementation, leveraging diverse skills and networks for better educational outcomes.

Education Out Loud provides grants to national civil society organizations working on improving transparency and effectiveness of national education policies under Operational Component 2 (OC2). OC2 supports projects that seek to

• Improve transparency, participation, and accountability in education sector policy dialogue and the processes leading to policy influence.
• Increase the availability, sources, and variety of information to formulate and act on relevant strategic areas.
• Mobilize citizens as rights holders for them to play an active role in monitoring implementation of education policies, their financing and implementation – and use this information to hold duty bearers at all levels accountable.

The OC2 component thus aims to ensure that civil society groups in a selected number of countries can undertake strategic multi-level monitoring of education policy and budget implementation and use evidence gathering to develop accountability mechanisms and act on relevant policy solutions.

Ultimately, governments shall become more efficient and effective in delivering quality education services to children and young people, including  marginalized and vulnerable communities. This way the OC2 grantees will contribute to:

• Data and evidence gathering for policy changes and/or monitoring of government commitments.