{"id":2273,"date":"2023-04-04T17:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2023-04-04T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T17:38:05","slug":"the-2023-africa-evidence-forum-on-foundational-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/the-2023-africa-evidence-forum-on-foundational-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2023 Africa evidence forum on foundational learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG-20230404-WA0171-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG-20230404-WA0171-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG-20230404-WA0171-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG-20230404-WA0171-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG-20230404-WA0171-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG-20230404-WA0171-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG-20230404-WA0171.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Eric Ziribagwa Ogott <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estimates suggest the economic cost of lost learning from the Covid-19 crisis will run into trillions of US dollars if corrective action is not urgently taken. While many other sectors<br>have rebounded when lockdowns eased, the damage to children\u2019s education is likely to<br>reduce their wellbeing and productivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This consequently makes education disruption one of the biggest threats to medium-and long-term recovery unless governments act swiftly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> For children to learn and thrive, this further calls for urgent recovery efforts,<br>rethinking, and resetting education provision.<br>With the aid of the Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office \u2013 What Works Hub, Zizi Afrique Foundation is hosting a regional convening to talk about Foundational<br>Learning &amp; Numeracy in Sub-Saharan Africa in association with the British Council, the Education Development Trust, Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP), and<br>Education Evidence for Action (EE4A). Academics, data producers, decision-makers, and scholars from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi, and Sierra Leone will<br>be among the participants. Numerous representatives from African education ministries<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Ziribagwa Ogott Estimates suggest the economic cost of lost learning from the Covid-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}