• Highlighted session: Impact Bonds for Education: Does innovation in financing address equity and quality challenges?
  Sunday, February 19, 2:45-4:15 pm EST
  Featuring R4D Senior Fellow Nick Burnett
• Highlighted session: Blended continuous professional development for educators: Case studies from the Global South
  Sunday, February 19, 2:45 to 4:15 pm EST
  Featuring members of EdTech Hub
• Building an innovative and integrated data system to drive decision making and deliver quality, equitable education in Sierra Leone
  Sunday, February 19, 6:30pm – 8:00 pm EST
  Featuring members of EdTech Hub
• How might we use education networks to better support schools and teachers across contexts?
  Tuesday, February 21, 4:45 – 6:15 pm EST
  Featuring R4D Senior Program Officer Laurel Schmitt
• Language and Belonging: Equity and indigenous language education: Localising resources
  Wednesday, February 22, 2:45-4:15 pm EST
  Featuring members of EdTech Hub
• Moving from research to action: What works, what doesn’t, and why?
  Wednesday, February 22, 1:30 – 3:00 pm EST
  Featuring R4D Education Practice Co-Lead Mark Roland
• Strengthening ECD systems, financing and accountability
  Wednesday, February 22, 3:15 – 4:45 pm EST
  Featuring R4D Senior Fellow Michelle Neuman

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At Results for Development (R4D), Mrs. Ajeigbe work closely with the Innovation practice team to devise and execute strategies and systems that support operational excellence, improve strategic budgeting and resource management, program management and quality control, business development, team-building, and human resources strategy. Some of the projects she works on include the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA), FCDO- Frontier Tech Hub, among others.

Some of Mrs. Ajeigbe’s major career achievements include restructuring an organization’s financial processes and procedures that had a major impact on delivery of their objectives. She also formulated and developed financial models and tools for government-funded startup projects.

Before joining R4D, Mrs. Ajeigbe worked with national not-for-profit organizations in the UK managing operational and strategic financial operations. This includes compliance to the UK Charity Commission, Companies House and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). She also worked on the Equality Justice and Alliance (EJA) Programme, funded by UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), where she managed budgets, grants and contracts.

Mrs. Ajeigbe holds a masters degree in development economics and BSc in accounting. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountant (CIMA). She speaks English and Yoruba.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Gjyla is the research finance manager for the EdTech Hub where he is responsible for developing budgets for research studies, developing and reporting on research finance data and performance to the research directors and core delivery team.

Prior to joining R4D, Mr. Gjyla was an independent consultant providing accounting and financial management support to NGOs, companies, and sole traders.

Mr. Gjyla has an MSc in finance and accounting from the University of Westminster, UK, is an ACCA candidate, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK, and has a BSc in finance from the University of Tirana, Albania.

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Mr. Olanipekun’s interests and achievements revolve around working with budding sub-grantee non-profits from inception/proof of concept/pilot stages to receiving mainstream funding and achieving clear long-term strategic development plans.

Prior to joining R4D, Mr. Olanipekun worked as the program finance and compliance manager for West Africa for the UK government’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF). In this role, he helped establish and manage the Lake Chad Basin and the West Africa Regional Response Programs for which he was awarded the CSSF global personal professional achievement award. Prior to this role, he worked with Save the Children International as the budgets and costing specialist for Nigeria. He also has worked for organizations such as EngenderHealth and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs.

Mr. Olanipekun holds bachelor and master’s degrees in accounting. He is skilled in large-scale ERP systems and software such as Quickbooks, Microsoft Power BI, and Tableau, and has expertise in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), proposal writing and budgeting, and the Sage 50 Accounting Software.

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Mr. Ezenwa is a program officer at Results for Development (R4D) working in R4D’s health financing program, the Local Health System Sustainability project (LHSS) and the NHIS Leadership Development Program (NLDP) in Nigeria. He coordinates with Nigeria’s federal government to institutionalize Ministry of Health budget process reforms and cascade to the 36 states plus the capital territory. Mr. Ezenwa provides sustainable mechanisms to channel government and donor partners’ expenditure to the primary health care system, with the goal of lowering OOPs for covered services.

Mr. Ezenwa supports the MoH, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) and the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) through capacity building, evidence generation and synthesis and knowledge translation. Working with partners and stakeholders, he supports the implementation of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) which is the largest pro-poor focused fund from the government of Nigeria to improve health outcomes. He works closely with the NHIA to design, set up and implement their leadership development program which aims to strengthen the policy development and implementation capacities of the NHIA at the national and sub-national levels and reposition the NHIA to provide technical support to state social health insurance schemes. He has also worked on Nigeria’s demand side financing project to expand enrollment in health services in Niger, in Kaduna states and among vulnerable groups. He also provides technical and management guidance to analytic work outputs.

Mr. Ezenwa’s career has been focused on expanding health coverage and access to low-income populations. He started his work in public health by supporting operational research, developing and facilitating capacity-building modules and tools for BHCPF, and providing technical and administrative support to mobile teams on field missions.

Prior to joining R4D, Mr. Ezenwa was an independent verification agent for the Nigeria State Health Investment Project, where he implemented quality and quantity verification and counter-verification for primary health care centers in northeastern Nigeria.

Mr. Ezenwa holds a BS degree in Human Physiology from the Anambra State University in Nigeria. He is a native speaker of Igbo and speaks fluent English.

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Video of the discussion is available here.

Speakers

• Jo Bourne, Chief Technical Officer, Global Partnership for Education
• Nick Burnett, R4D Senior Fellow
• Julie Cram, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment
• Robert Jenkins, UNICEF Education Chief
• Gina Lagomarsino, R4D President and CEO
• Dzingai Mutumbuka, Former Minister of Education for Zimbabwe
• Jaime Saavedra, Global Director for Education, World Bank

The following questions were explored:

• To what extent is the current aid architecture fit for purpose?
• Which reforms to the current aid architecture are most critical? What are the barriers to enacting such reforms and how can they be overcome?
• Which actors are best placed to lead reform efforts?
• Are there lessons that might be learned from the organization of the aid architecture in other sectors?

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Wednesday, May 15
9:30 – 11 am (breakfast at 9 am)
Results for Development
1111 19th Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036

Jean-Michel Severino — the former head of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and author of several influential books — delivered remarks, followed by an engaging panel discussion featuring former Liberian Minister of Education George Werner, R4D President Gina Lagomarsino and R4D Education Director Molly Jamieson Eberhardt.

Jean-Michel Severino is the author of several books, including Africa’s Moment. Currently, he spearheads an initiative funded by the government of Monaco to improve education in West Africa with the help of impact investing finance. The Monaco initiative is aimed at addressing education deficits in some of the most challenging situations that often get short shrift from donors and others.

George Werner served as Liberia’s Minister of Education from 2015 – 2018. During his tenure, he led bold reforms, including the “Getting to Best” program, aimed at overhauling the education system to give all Liberian children access to free, quality education. He now uses his experience and expertise to help assist other African leaders to implement transformative reform agendas aimed at developing human capital and maximizing demographic dividends for long-term economic growth.

Throughout her career, R4D President and CEO Gina Lagomarsino has focused on improving the accessibility and quality of health and education services for low-income populations. As one of the original co-founders of R4D, she served as chief operating officer from 2013-2016, building the financial, human resources and operational systems necessary for a growing organization. Taking over as CEO in 2016, she helped set the organization on a new course to strengthen health, education and nutrition systems around the world.

R4D Education Program Director Molly Jamieson Eberhardt leads the adaptive learning and evaluation work within R4D’s global education practice, including working with partners to embed rigorous monitoring and evaluation methods into program design and implementation to inform real-time, data-driven decision-making. She also co-leads the R4D-led Rapid Feedback Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning consortium, a USAID initiative that is piloting innovative evaluation approaches with USAID Missions and implementing partners to generate evidence throughout the program implementation cycle.

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At Results for Development, Dr. Chehidi is a senior fellow working with and support education leaders in Africa with their policy priorities and implementation challenges. Throughout his career, Dr. Chehidi has focused on strengthening the capacities of ministries of education to achieve policy objectives and on aligning education systems’ goals and programs with social and economic development goals. Before joining R4D, Dr. Chehidi worked for the Ministry of Education of Tunisia where served as an advisor to the Minister and coordinated analytical work that informed decisions pertaining to the implementation of the July 2002 Education Act.

In 2007, Dr. Chehidi led the Ministry’s general review of ICT strategies and programs and the development of the new strategy (2009-2014), re-organized the ministry’s departments in charge of the integration of new technologies, and led the efforts to establish Tunisia’s National Educational Technology Center. In 2011, he joined ADEA, where he founded and led the continental ICT in Education Task Force and the organization of the “African Ministerial Forum on ICT integration in education and training,” the leading continental high-level policy dialogue platform on ICT in Education and Training. In 2015, he joined GESCI and led the organization’s expansion into francophone Africa and North Africa, coordinated the development of GESCI’s new strategy and led its engagement with governments and international organizations.

Dr. Chehidi holds a PhD in comparative area studies from Sophia University Tokyo, an MA in international relations from the International University of Japan and a B.Sc. in business administration from the American College of Greece. He is a native speaker of Arabic and speaks English, French and Italian.

Board affiliations and titles:

• Member of the African Union Commission CESA-ICT in Education Cluster
• Member of the UNESCO Advisory Group on Best Practices in Mobile Learning
• Member of the program committee of the Pan-African University’s E-University Project
• Knight of the Tunisian National Order of Merit for Contribution to Education – (Presidential Decree 2008).

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Each year, millions of children are unable to attend school, and many who do are not receiving the quality education they deserve. But a consensus about how to address the problem is emerging, and new international forums known as “peer action networks” are providing the framework to implement solutions.

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