World Bank and JA Leaders to Hold Panel About Nonprofit–Government Partnerships
Join the World Bank panel discussion with JA leaders on scaling through nonprofit–government partnerships.
To be successful in the labor market, young people must acquire and practice a broad range of critical skills from an early age. Yet, reforming education and training curricula towards more project-based and experiential learning pedagogies remains a challenge in many low- and middle-income countries. This session dives into the experiences of JA leadership in brokering large-scale partnerships with governments to increase young people’s access to modern learning experiences at a national and international scale.
Join the webinar on March 10, 9amEST/3pmCET/9pmHKT. Register today.
Session 2 broke attendees into six small-group conversations on everything from rebuilding trust in polarized systems to reimagining how we design learning environments. Ana co-facilitated the Trust and Polarization session with Jane Mann, Managing Director of the Partnership for Education and Education Director of the International Education Group at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. We presented our global research on polarization trends in 100 countries over five decades, and participants shared their perspectives on how to bridge the trust gap with stakeholders ranging from funders to parents. One interesting insight for building trust is to look to behavioral science research on the attribution fallacy, a cognitive bias in which people overemphasize personality-based (dispositional) explanations for others' behavior while underemphasizing situational factors.
The day ended with a fireside conversation with philanthropic leaders from the Lemann Foundation, Malala Fund, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and others, wrestling with one of the sector's most persistent tensions: how to fund deep, slow transformation while responding to urgent, fast-moving crises.
From left: Tim Stanbury, Ana Martiningui, Asheesh Advani, Howard Leong, Simi Nwogugu, Sarah Poretta, William Humphrey.
The day ended with a private dinner joined by William Humphrey (Global Council Member, JA Worldwide and Founder/Chairman, Oxford Royale), Sarah Poretta (CEO, Young Enterprise UK), and Tim Stanbury (Director of IT and Finance, Young Enterprise UK). We’d like to thank our partners who took the time to engage with us at the event: the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the What Works for Global Education Hub, the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Yidan Prize Foundation, and many more.
Being part of a room full of passionate educationalists is deeply invigorating. Everyone in the audience had something to contribute to advancing education globally. Perhaps each one of us is a social entrepreneur in our own right. A gentle nudge to a system, however small, when compounded, leads to a different direction.