Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI)

The What Works Hub for Global Education is committed to learning at scale with equity, ensuring that education reforms improve foundational learning outcomes for all learners. Rarely is scale a one-size-fits-all approach – scaling requires adaptation of evidence-based principles to specific populations and contexts.

To support this overarching goal, the Hub has the following objectives:

1. Provide global thought leadership on GEDSI within implementation science and scaling efforts – The What Works Hub for Global Education seeks to shape global dialogue on how education interventions can be implemented at scale in ways that improve outcomes for marginalised groups.
2. Generate contextually grounded GEDSI evidence through partner country research and implementation – The What Works Hub for Global Education supports the generation of new GEDSI-related insights from country-level research and implementation efforts, informed by national GEDSI priorities and focused on adaptive education reform that is responsive to local contexts and accompanying exclusions.
3. Mainstream GEDSI principles across Hub governance, operations and engagement.

The What Works Hub for Global Education’s approach to GEDSI advances the Hub’s vision of inclusive implementation at scale by embedding equity across research, practice and governance.

What Works Hub for Global Education research studies

The What Works Hub for Global Education produces and funds a range of outputs sharing new and synthesised evidence on GEDSI issues. These contribute to evidence and insight on achieving improvements to learning at scale for all. These include REAL Centre’s Systematic Review of Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion in Implementation Science.

Compendium on equitable learning at scale

In our compendiums we aim to curate leading examples and resources on a particular topic and seek new contributions on that topic. The forthcoming Equitable learning at scale compendium aims to amplify evidence and insight on how to achieve improvements to learning at outcomes at scale, which work for all learners, with a focus on GEDSI groups. 

What Works Hub for Global Education blog series

Our blog series share evidence and insight on GEDSI and equity issues from across the global south in a curated, accessible format. 

Blog series on Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) and Implementation Science

Our ongoing GEDSI and Implementation Science blog series explores how Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) can be embedded in education-focused implementation science research, sharing evidence, case studies and reflections on the opportunities and challenges of scaling inclusive education interventions.

The series is led in partnership with the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge, which pioneers research into overcoming barriers to education – find out more on the REAL Centre website.

This blog series aims to fill the gap in discussions on embedding Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) in education-focused implementation science research, creating a space for reflection, evidence-sharing, and debate. 

Blog series on Equitable Learning at Scale: How education systems can better support the teaching and learning process to benefit all learners.

This blog series is focused on classroom level improvements to teaching and learning that can be implemented at scale, to address equity issues even within the most effective and evidence-based current programmes, such as Structured Pedagogy and Teaching at the Right Level. These blogs explore what equity means in early grade classrooms, how it differs by context, what promising solutions are emerging and how an equity-based approach can be implemented at scale by governments.

The series is delivered in partnership with Better Purpose and the Gates Foundation and complements wider engagement and debate with key stakeholders through an Equity working group.