People's Action for Learning Network

The People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network is a south-south partnership of 17 member organisations working to promote children’s foundational learning across Africa, Asia, and America. PAL Network members conduct citizen-led assessments (CLAs) and learning intervention programmes (action) aimed at improving learning outcomes. The International Common Assessment of Numeracy (ICAN) and Reading (ICAR) initiative is the People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network’s global effort to generate robust, comparable, and inclusive data on children’s foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN). Built on the foundation of Citizen-Led Assessments (CLAs), this project addresses the "learning data gap" in the Global South by measuring what children truly know and can do, regardless of their schooling status.