Our Work
Our 4Cs in Action
The mEducation Alliance drives collaboration, innovation, and impact in formal and non-formal education systems through our four C’s:
Convening
- Organizing global and regional symposia and networking events, both virtual and in person.
- To date, we’ve hosted 17 Symposia with nearly 4,000 attendees. Explore our 2025 Symposia pages: The Marvelous Education Alliance, STEMtastic Adventures! Africa, STEMtastic Adventures! With Young Pacific Leaders — and discover how we can connect you with key stakeholders at our next event!
- Hosting research roundtables and investment consultations for governments, donors, and service providers.
- Establishing and facilitating working groups for policymakers and funders.
Catalyzing
- Ecosystem building to accelerate the growth and adoption of solutions.
- Launching and supporting signature initiatives, such as the use of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) for education, Math Power! Prize, Global STEM Education Champions Network, and Youth Digital Champions.
- Conducting landscape and literature reviews to inform data-driven innovation.
- Designing and managing education grand and prize challenges and open innovation competitions. For example, our founder established the All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development in 2010. In 2022, we launched the first-of-its-kind Math Power! Prize.
Communicating
- Disseminating good practices and new research through multimedia channels such as webinars, our biweekly eNews, and Pulse videos.
- Producing and sharing research profiles spotlighting innovation and evidence-based success stories.
- Creating knowledge products that help funders and implementers make informed, data-driven decisions
Community Building
- Expanding and facilitating thematic CoPs focused on priority areas such as foundational learning and STEM.
- Encouraging peer exchange and mentoring among Alliance members, donors, and practitioners.
- Supporting collaborative design and delivery of joint initiatives that maximize shared resources and impact
Our Focus Areas
Our work and partnerships to date include a focus on:
FLN
Promoting scalable, tech- and non-tech enabled approaches that improve early grade reading, writing, and numeracy skills — the essential building blocks for lifelong learning.
STEM
Expanding equitable access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning opportunities to prepare learners for the skills and jobs of the future.


