Our Aims
The hub’s goal is to improve learning outcomes for children across the continent by supporting the effective use of foundational learning data for evidence-based advocacy and policy making.
- create an African hub of foundational learning data and expertise in methods, measurement, data quality and comparability
- empower African organizations and ministries to utilize such data for evidence-based advocacy and policymaking
- support an African research agenda by expanding and capacitating the group of researchers working on foundational learning
Our Location
The hub is hosted at DataFirst at the University of Cape Town, the only internationally accredited open data repository on the African continent
- established in 2001 to ensure open access to African data to support high quality data-driven research and evidence-informed policymaking.
- provides data curation and data hosting services, as well as data curation training.
- has a long tradition of capacity building including a range of data analysis training courses.
- researchers have considerable expertise in measurement and research on the quality, usability, and comparability of data