South Africa | The Impact Initiative

Accountability, capacity and trust to improve learning outcomes in South Africa: a systems approach

Principal Investigator: Melanie Ehren (Free (VU) University of Amsterdam).

Lead Organisation: University College London (UCL)

Co-investigators: Andrew Neil Paterson Double-Hugh Marera (JET Education Service); Jacqueline-Aundree Jacqueline Baxter (Open University)

Researcher: Soong Moon Kang (UCL)

Accountability for gender equality in education: Critical perspectives on an indicator framework for the SDGs

Principal Investigator: Elaine Sara Unterhalter. Lead Organisation: University College London (UCL).

Co-investigators: Relebohile Moletsane (University of KwaZulu-Natal); Rosie Peppin Vaughan (UCL); Catherine Marion Jere (University of East Anglia); Dorothy Cynthia Nampota (University of Malawi)

Researcher: Helen Ruth Longlands (UCL)

Inclusive higher education learning outcomes for rural and township youth: developing a multi-dimensional capabilities-based higher education index

Principal Investigator: Melanie Jane Walker. Lead Organisation: University of Free State

Co-investigators: Merridy Wilson-Strydom; Monica Jane McLean; Ann-Marie Bathmaker

South African higher education (HE) is characterised by inequalities of access, participation and success, and hence youth disadvantage, yet it is also seen as central to economic development and social mobility.

Primary school students in Alamana, Tanzania

AFLA - Assessment for Learning in Africa: improving pedagogy and assessment for numeracy in foundation years

Principal Investigator: Therese N. Hopfenbeck. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford

Co-investigators: Anjum Halai (Aga Khan University); Anil Kanjee (Tshwane University of Technology); Jo-Anne Baird (University of Oxford); Yusuf Sayed (University of Sussex);

Vukani Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa.

Succeeding against the odds: understanding resilience and exceptionalism in high-functioning township and rural primary schools in South Africa

Principal Investigator: Servaas Van Der Berg. Lead Organisation: Stellenbosch University

Co-investigators: Nicholas Andrew Spaull; Ursula Kate Hoadley; Jaamia Galant; Nicholas Christopher Taylor

Turning livelihoods to rubbish? Assessing the impacts of formalization and technologization of waste management on the urban poor

Principal Investigator: Erik Achille Swyngedouw. Lead Organisation: University of Manchester (Environment, Education and Development)

Co-Investigators: Mary Lawhon (University of Pretoria); Henrik Ernstson (University of Manchester)

Insuring against Rural Water Risk in Africa

Principal Investigator: Robert Adrian Hope. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford

Co-investigators: Peter Harvey; Timothy Ross Foster

Engaging teachers in peacebuilding in postconflict contexts: evaluating education interventions in Rwanda and South Africa

Principal Investigator: Yusuf Sayed. Lead Organisation: University of Sussex

Co-investigators: Naureen Durrani; Mario Novelli; Angeline M Barrett

Labour law, development and poverty alleviation in low and middle-income countries

Principal Investigator: Simon Deakin. Lead Organisation: University of Cambridge

Co-investigator: Shelley Diana Marshall

Avon in Africa: Reducing Poverty Through Global Exchange

Can schemes like Avon be an important poverty reduction tool? This study, located in South Africa, assesses the sustainability of income Avon representatives earn, and explores the way this selling system affects communities to determine whether or not the scheme generates new wealth for impoverished communities.

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