Agenda Day 3

Keynote:

The Rt Hon Gordon Brown

former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education

Speakers:

H.E. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Minister of Finance, Indonesia

H.E. Dr. Jakaya Kikwete

Former President of Tanzania and Chair of the Board of Directors, Global Partnership for Education

H.E. Dr. Dipu Moni

Minister of Education, Bangladesh

Kersti Kaljulaid

Former President of Estonia

Amir Abdulla

Deputy Executive Director, World Food Programme (Virtual)

Video Message:

Filippo Grandi

High-Commissioner, UNHCR

Speakers:

Alison Bellwood

Creator and Director of The World's Largest Lesson, Project Everyone and Representative of Generation Earthshot

Dr. Andrew Cunningham

Global Lead, Education, Aga Khan Foundation

Ryan Burgess

Global Lead for Primary and Secondary Education and TVET, Porticus

Dr. Daniel Baheta

Chief of Education, UNICEF Tanzania

There is a strong push for access to open learning for vulnerable communities in the Middle East, especially refugees, however, the open education ecosystem is currently being led by western institutions with few representations in the Arab world. To ensure momentum to promote and enable open access to learning across the Arab world grows and is inclusive, Community Jameel, the Abdullah Al Ghurair Foundation for Education, the Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) at MIT and the American University of Beirut are bringing together leading voices from the higher education ecosystem to discuss challenges, learn from experiences and create a framework for action.

Speakers:

Sonia Ben Jaafar

CEO, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education

Vijay Kumar

Executive Director, Abdul Latif Jameel World Education

Alan Shihadeh

Dean of the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. American University of Beirut

Dr. Hamad Mohamed Al Yahyaei

Assistant Undersecretary For Curriculum and Assessment Sector, Ministry of Education, UAE

Amna Fatani

Associate Director, Strategy, Community Jameel

This session focuses on increasing commitments for early childhood development in crisis, scaling up the financing, policies, and leadership needed to effectively support young children affected in humanitarian and crisis contexts. The discussion will unfold from different perspectives, from the voices of children to the opportunities presented to stakeholders to champion investments and priorities for the young ones in crisis.

Speakers:

Amanda Devercelli

Global Lead for Early Childhood Development, World Bank

Anita Anastacio

Initiative Lead The LEGO Foundation and MMA Steering Group Member

Joanie Cohen-Mitchell

Division Chief of the Center for Education, USAID

Jessica Hjarrand

Global Programme Manager, Education in Displacement, Early Childhood Development

This panel will bring together funders across public and private spaces, who are working to support evidence in education in emergencies. The panel will discuss the rationale for funding evidence for education in emergencies (EiE), approaches to funding research (funding mechanisms, partnerships, design), priorities and considerations, and impact of evidence on EiE policy and practice.

Speakers:

Christian Stoff

Chief, Monitoring, Evaluation and Global Reporting, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) (virtual)

Gerhard Pulfer

Portfolio Manager Education in Displacement, Porticus

Joseph Wales

Education Research Advisor, FCDO

Dr. Kuyok Abol Kuyok

Undersecretary of the South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction

Catherine Gladwell

CEO of Refugee Education UK and Director at Jigsaw Consult

The Covid pandemic has forced the realisation that health interventions are a key contribution to educational attainment. In this session, three major non-governmental organisations share their real world experience of helping governments deliver health interventions through the education system.

Speakers:

Carmen Burbano

Director of School Feeding Division, World Food Programme

Carol Karutu

Vice President, Programs, The END Fund

Nick Virr

Head of Development – UK and Europe, The Fred Hollows Foundation (Virtual)

Sumrana Yasmin

Global Technical Lead: Eye Health URE, Sightsavers (Virtual)

Dr. Shariha Khalid Erichsen

Private Sector Core Action Group member of UHC2030, Managing Partner, Mission & Co

Beau Crowder

Consultant

Johannes Waltz

Head, Merck Schistosomiasis Elimination Program and Global Schistosomiasis Alliance, Merck Group (Virtual)

This session will focus on how outcomes funding delivers results in skills for employment programs. Results that truly matter to individuals and society—people who move into high-quality employment and stay there. Innovative financing creates a laser focus on results; it brings in new actors to the sector and ensures all parties are held accountable. It can also create strong incentives to assist traditionally underserved groups, such as women, refugee populations, and those with disabilities.

This session brings together a group of leaders including donors, impact investors, service providers, and government representatives at the forefront of this movement to hear first-hand about outcomes funding in skills for employment programs and how this delivers impact.

Speakers:

Andrew Baird

CEO, Education for Employment

Christian Braendli

Deputy Head Private Sector Development, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Dhun Davar

Head of Social Finance and India Head, UBS Optimus Foundation

Mourad Bentahar

Director of Employment, Millenium Challenge Account (MCA),
Morocco

Governments are partnering with local non-profit education organizations in a range of ways to help them expand access to quality education. In Pakistan, The Citizens Foundation has built over 1,000 independent schools serving low-income children and now manages over 350 government schools under seven diverse PPP agreements. In Madhya Pradesh and Odisha in India, a coalition of non-state actors, facilitated and managed by Central Square Foundation, are working alongside state governments to strengthen the delivery of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in state schools. PEAS is leveraging its experience operating schools to provide a wider range of system strengthening support to the Ugandan government. In this session, leaders from non-profit organisations from South Asia and Africa will share how they are working together with governments to sustainably transform systems at scale. They will explore the perceived benefits and challenges of these partnerships, and discuss how we might expand our understanding of PPPs beyond traditional subsidy or contract management models to broader “Partnerships for Public Purpose (PPP)

Speakers:

Zia Akhter Abbas

Executive Vice President, The Citizens Foundation

Shaveta Sharma-Kukreja

Managing Director, Central Square Foundation

Jenny Groot

Acting CEO, Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS)

The INEE Minimum Standards represent a shared vision and concrete actions to support our collective goals for Education in Emergencies. This workshop will engage participants with the Standards, and provide a unique opportunity for diverse stakeholders to shape the Standards official update to ensure they rewire the future of education.

Speakers:

Annina Mattsson

Director of RewirEd

George Mogga Benjamin

Director General for Planning and Budgeting, Ministry of Education, South Sudan

Therese Curran

Regional Education Advisor, NRC

Josué Trillos

Head Teacher from Columbia

Nina Weisenhorn

Senior Advisor in Education in Crisis and Conflict, USAID (Virtual)

Explores best practices around Islamic Philanthropy, new avenues for collaboration and partnership to help scale impact and leverage resources effectively. It also examines prominent Islamic Philanthropy tools including Zakat, Sadaqah and Waqf, and how they can have a significant and sustainable impact on beneficiaries, especially in crisis or emergency environments.

Speakers:

Dr. Ahmed Al Haddad

Grand Mufti of Dubai

Khaled Khalifa

UNHCR Senior Advisor and Representative to GCC countries

Dr. Sonia Ben Jaafar

CEO, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education

Dana Jawad Amr

Programs Manager, Dubai Cares

Iqbal Khan

CEO, Fajr Captal

A conversation to explore what more equitable and efficient financing looks like in practice, with insights from countries as well as multilateral agencies, and evidence of what works for domestic financing.

Speakers:

H.E. Joyce Ndalichako

Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, Tanzania

Andreas Schleicher

Director of Education and Skills, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Manos Antoninis

Director, Global Education Monitoring Report

Thomas Poulsen

Senior Economist, World Bank

If we believe ‘Education is Everybody’s Business,’ then low-fee private schools also have a role to play in rewiring education and unlocking access for more children. This session will debate the financeability of different low-fee private schools operating models, considering the strengths and challenges facing each model to attract increasing incremental funding.

Speakers:

George Werner

Former Minister of Education, Liberia

Grace Matlhape

CEO, SmartStart Social Franchise

Jenny Groot

Acting CEO, Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS)

A discussion on how we utilize innovative and equitable financing to ensure secondary education systems, including alternative pathways, reach all young people and prepare them for work and life. We will feature the World Skills Clock that highlights new data of the extent of the global learning and skills crisis.

Speakers:

H.E. David Moinina Sengeh

Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education and Chief Innovation Officer for the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation, Sierra Leone

Robert Jenkins

Global Director, Education and Adolescent Development, UNICEF

Dr. Liesbet Steer

Director, Education Commission

Saddam Sayyaleh

Young Global Board member of Generation Unlimited (GenU), Founder of I Learn Jordan Initiative

Philip Cotton

Director of Human Capital Development, Mastercard Foundation

The future that awaits children and youth sitting in classrooms today will be characterized by unprecedented changes and technology permeating every corner of work and life. Rooted in its global experience and the global education sector's evidence, in this session Dubai Cares will unveil a global education ecosystem that holds the potential to empower children and youth to build a prosperous and sustainable future for all.

Speaker:

Dr. Shireen Nawal Chaya

Program Technical Advisor, Dubai Cares

To map out the opportunities & challenges that help EdTech investors make informed investments, this panel-cum-workshop session will begin with an overview of which sub-sectors have been the preferred ones across the globe (and why) in recent times and then go into a workshop session with the attendees, compromising investors, founders, operators and policy makers. Join us, if you’re keen on making/supporting EdTech investments that aren't just driving a financial return but also impact-oriented too.

Speakers:

Ash Kaluarachchi

CEO, Started Accelerator

Basem AbuDagga

CEO, Aster Global Partners

Mr. Anthony Bloome

Founder and Executive Director
mEducation Alliance

Dr. Gus Schmedlen

President and Chief Revenue Officer, Merlyn Mind

Eunji Kang

Strategic Design Lead, Radicle

Join this interactive dialogue where the world’s education leaders will provide passionate pitches on where future Education investments should be directed for Education in Emergencies and Crisis Contexts. Our pitch experts will try to convince you and our renown panel of Investors –on how to best invest for impact.

Speakers:

Annina Mattsson

Director of RewirEd

Euan Wilmhurst

Head of Advocacy &Communications, LEGO Foundation

Danah Dajani

Director of Programs and Partnerships, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education

Mr. Andreas Papaconstantinou

Director, Neighbourhood and Middle East, Directorate General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, European Commission

Pitch Presenters:

Najeeba Wazefadost

Asia Pacific Network of Refugees

Lindsey Brown

New York University

Rita Bissoonauth

AUCIEFA

Lauren Lichtman

Learning Equality

Judith Flick

WarChild Holland

Education in Emergencies’ Geneva Hub’s representative

Why is meaningful connectivity - having sufficient data, reliable quality connection, and adequate devices - critical for quality education? This session will explore this question and spotlight countries that have mobilized resources during the current pandemic to show how important meaningful connectivity has been for education

Speakers:

H.E. Paula Ingabire

Minister of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda

Ali Cheema

Head of Government & Industry Relations Middle East & Africa, Ericsson

Boutheina Guermazi

Director of Digital Development, World Bank

Christopher Fabian

Co-Founder of UNICEF Innovation and Co-Lead of Giga

Osman Issah

Project Manager, Broadband and Internet Initiatives, Smart Africa

Global funds have transformed the delivery of EiE - connecting education stakeholders to deliver collaborative and rapid responses for children and youth affected by crises. Join us to discuss the benefits and challenges and how we can work together to ensure global funds continue to achieve maximum impact in communities.

Speakers:

Yona Nestel

Inclusive Quality Education Lead, Plan International Canada

Nasser Al-Faqih

Chief Strategic Partnerships, Education Cannot Wait (ECW)

Margarita Focas Licht

Manager, Effective Partnerships, Global Partnership for Education (GPE)

Asif Saleh

Executive Director, BRAC

We are facing an unprecedented learning crisis, and yet too often we limit ourselves to business-as-usual thinking. UNESCO estimated a shortage of 69 million teachers even before Covid. How can the education sector draw inspiration from global health and the community healthcare worker model to serve the hardest-to-reach cost-effectively?

Speakers:

George K. Werner

Former Minister of Education, Liberia, Executive Committee Member, Education Outcomes Fund

Kathleen Oosthuizen

Strategy and Impact Lead, Community Health (Virtual)

Manushi Yadav

Head of Strategic Partnerships, Pratham Education Foundation, add (Virtual)

This event will support the launch of the Refugee Connected Education Challenge, which will work with governments and education actors to make strong commitments to help narrow the growing digital divide faced by displaced learners. We need to ensure that schools that host refugees, and forcibly displaced students, are prioritized and meaningfully included in global and national digital education and connectivity efforts.

Speakers:

H.E. Dr. Tariq Al Gurg

CEO and Vice-Chairman, Dubai Cares

Khaled Khalifa

UNHCR's Senior Representative to the GCC Countries

Jessy Inga

Refugee Digital Inclusion Advocate

Rebecca Telford

UNHCR Chief of Education

Yasmine Sherif

Director, Education Cannot Wait

How difficult will it be for the world’s second-largest education system to change course? India has long recognized the fundamental importance of education to securing its future. Fifty years ago, the country’s National Education Commission wrote: “The destiny of India is now being shaped in her classrooms...” But for years, successive governments have faced systemic and seemingly unsolvable issues on education – among them poorly performing teacher-training institutions, a lack of adequate physical and digital infrastructure and the fact that Indian children spend significantly less time in school on average than their peers in other major emerging economies such as China and Brazil.

India’s national government has recently launched a bold new education policy, which places significant emphasis on digital technology and pedagogical innovation. To deliver, education authorities across the country are looking for innovative and disruptive ideas from the private and philanthropic sectors, as well as from a new generation of tech-literate teachers and public officials. In this session, hear from a range of leaders across different sectors who believe that disrupting India’s education system could deliver major gains in learning.

Keynote:

Nicholas Piachaud

Head of Analysis and Advocacy, Varkey Foundation

Speakers:

Faizal Kottikollon

Founder and Chairman, KEF Holdings

Olivier Crespin

CEO and Co-Founder, Zand

Abha Thorat

Executive Director (Social Finance), British Asian Trust (Virtual)

Dr. Vinod Rao

Principal Secretary (Primary and Secondary Education), Government of Gujarat, India

Ranjit Disale

Indian teacher, 2020 Global Teacher Prize Winner

The Global Launch of a joint innovative finance approach between the Global Partnership for Education and Arab Coordination Group. The approach aims to avails US$ 500 million in funding for education from the Arab Coordination Group of development finance institutions, coordinated and co-lead by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).

Keynote:

H.E. Dr. Jakaya Kikwete

Former President of Tanzania and Chair of the Board of Directors, Global Partnership for Education

Amer Bukvic

Director General in Charge of Products Development and Partnerships, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)

Speakers:

H.E. Joyce Ndalichako

Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, Tanzania

H.E. Mambury Njie

Minister of Finance & Economic Affairs, The Gambia

H.E. Mr. Faiziddin Qahhorzoda

Minister of Finance, Tajikistan

H.E. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Minister of Finance, Indonesia

H.E. Abdullahi Abukar Haji

Federal Minister of Education, Culture and Higher, Somalia Education

H.E. Imomzoda Muhammdyusuf Saydali

Minister of Education and Science, Tajikistan

Margarita Focas Licht

Manager, Partnerships, GPE

Dr. Tarek Shawky

Minister of Education and Technical Education, Egypt

Samaher AlShallali

General Director of Policies and Partnerships Directorate, Saudi Fund for Development

Amer Bukvic

Director General in Charge of Products Development and Partnerships, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)

Maryjacob Okwuosa

Global Partnership for Education Youth Leader, Nigeria

May AlQabandi

First International Relations Specialist, Kuwait Fund For Arab Economic Developement

In this session, we will explore the effective tools, mechanisms, and platforms that are needed to create the context for effective and impactful collaboration at scale. This session will also showcase the experimental journey & learnings from the collaborations initiated by 2 diverse groups of organizations in the Sandbox.

Speakers:

Eloise Haylor

Network & System Change Lead, Big Change

Annie Kidder

Executive Director, People for Education

Visha Taljera

Co-Founder Dream a Dream, India

Leonora Dowley

Head of Partnerships, #LearningPlanet

With limited time and funding to meet the scale of our global learning crisis, investments must be not only effective, but cost-effective. Yet, cost and cost-effectiveness studies are rare, and even more rarely made public. This panel will explore tools and research to improve the efficiency of global education investments.

Speakers:

Dayoung Lee

Associate Partner, Dalberg Advisors

Milena Castellnou

CEO, Education Outcomes Fund

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Senior Fellow Centre for Universal Education, The Brookings Institution

Speakers:

Kersti Kaljulaid

Former President of Estonia

Education Development Trust invites you to a candid discussion with senior education civil servants from the UK and Kenya and trusted advisers to unpack ‘how’ they see the unprecedented global financial commitments to girls’ education delivering value for money and impact for marginalised girls.

Speakers:

Alicia Herbert

OBE, Director of the Education, Gender and Equality Directorate (EdGE) at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom

Ruth Kagia

Deputy Chief of Staff for the Policy and Strategy Office of the President of Kenya

Roland Hancock

Partner, Education, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Rosa Muraya

Deputy Director for the Girls Education Challenge (GEC), Wasichana Wetu Wafaulu (WWW), Kenya

Digital media is a powerful influencer of social change as a tool for communications and a channel for the wide dissemination of information and knowledge. The rise of digital media has added new complexity to the relationship between schools and media. This event will explore the important role of education in fostering the skills needed to critically examine the digital stories and information that we consume daily. It will also explore the question of how media sources, social media corporations, and educational institutions can collaborate more effectively to ensure that information literacy is central to education – towards the creation of more just, open societies built on accurate information. We all have important roles to play in fostering the competencies needed to decode digital media. This event highlights the role of education systems and global media corporations in teaching the skills needed to analyse the many types of stories that we consume daily in our increasingly digitised world.

Speakers:

H.E. Mona Ghanem Al Marri

Director General of the Government of Dubai Media Officee

Niamh Spelman

General Manager of the Solutions Sales Unit, Microsoft

Michail Bletsas

Director of Computing and Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab

Mikaela Jade

CEO and Founder, Indigital

Derek Murray Wyatt

Former Member of Parliament, United Kingdom