The Education Partnership Centre Marks a Decade of
Transforming Education in Nigeria with New Impact
Report
The Education Partnership (TEP) Centre has officially launched its 2025 Impact Report, marking ten years of sustained work to improve education systems in Nigeria an across Africa through evidence, innovation, and collaboration.
Founded in 2013, The Education Partnership Centre set out with a clear belief: that education reform must move beyond access to focus on whether children are actually learning. Over the last decade, that belief has shaped a body of work that has influenced policy, strengthened systems, and reached learners, educators, and communities at scale.
The Impact Report captures this journey, one defined by asking difficult questions, generating locally relevant evidence, and building partnerships that translate data into action.
A Decade of Measurable Impact
Over the past ten years, The Education Partnership Centre has:
- Reached over one million children, directly and indirectly, through programmes focused on foundational literacy and numeracy
- Engaged more than 100,000 households, placing families and communities at the centre of learning improvement
- Supported over 5,000 educators, strengthening classroom practice through capacity development and assessment-informed instruction
- Delivered more than 50 education projects, spanning research, programme design, implementation, and policy support
- Worked with partners across 40+ organisations on five continents, contributing African-led insights to global education discourse
Pioneering Data-Driven Reform
A defining contribution of The Education Partnership Centre has been its leadership in data and evidence generation. In 2017, the organisation launched LEARNigeria, Nigeria’s first citizen-led household assessment of learning. The initiative collected learning data from 40,000 children across 21,600 households and 2,000 schools, spanning six geopolitical zones.
LEARNigeria fundamentally shifted the national conversation by revealing the extent of learning poverty and making learning outcomes visible to policymakers, communities, and development partners. The data has since informed state-level reforms, advocacy efforts, and remedial learning programmes.
Building on this foundation, The Education Partnership Centre has supported large-scale system reform initiatives such as PLANE, contributing to socio-demographic surveys across 7,500 schools in northern Nigeria and supporting public-private partnership frameworks that strengthen education delivery at state level.
Improving Learning Where It Matters Most
The Impact Report highlights targeted interventions that have delivered measurable learning gains. Through the LEARNigeria Remedial Programme, children who had fallen behind made rapid progress, most notably in Kano State, where the proportion of children unable to identify syllables dropped from 71% to 34% after just one month of intervention.
Similarly, low-tech innovations like Zo Mu Koya Tare, designed during the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrated that learning can improve even in constrained contexts. The programme recorded 6–15% learning gains and helped over 1,000 learners transition out of beginner literacy levels, reinforcing the case for context-responsive solutions.
Convening the Education Ecosystem
Beyond programmes and research, The Education Partnership Centre has played a convening role, bringing together policymakers, educators, civil society, and the private sector to drive collective action. Over the past eight years, the Nigerian Education Innovation Summit (NEDIS) has convened more than 2,500 stakeholders and hosted 70+ expert speakers, shaping dialogue and partnerships across the sector.
Through platforms like EdMeets and its monthly webinar series, the organisation continues to foster shared learning and accountability, ensuring education remains central to national development conversations.
Looking Ahead: The Next Decade
As The Education Partnership Centre enters its second decade, the Impact Report also sets out a forward-looking agenda. Over the next ten years, the organisation aims to:
- Support five million learnerswith foundational skills
- Equip 50,000 teachersto deliver high-quality instruction
- Strengthen education ecosystems across Africathrough research, policy engagement, and leadership development
About The Education Partnership Centre
The Education Partnership (TEP) Centre is a Nigeria-based education non-profit committed to improving access to quality and relevant education across Africa through research, programme design, capacity development, advocacy, and collaboration with state and non-state actors.
The full TEP Centre Impact Report 2025 is now available and can be accessed on our website.
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