The PSIPSE funder collaborative just announced a US $13 million call for proposals on secondary education projects supporting students in East Africa, Nigeria, Malawi, and India. The collaborative seeks to identify innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective education models that increase access to secondary education and improve learning outcomes for marginalized populations. Selected proposals will receive in-country funding to accelerate innovation, link research and evidence with policy reforms, and effectively share learnings with key stakeholders.

The PSIPSE funder collaborative is made up private donors and donor advisors including: Comic Relief, Dubai Cares, Human Dignity Foundation, Intel Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the MasterCard Foundation.

Because your program is featured in the Center for Education Innovations (CEI) programs directory, we are eager to share exciting opportunities such as this one with your team. We believe that this call for proposals could be a great match for your work, as well as a unique chance to learn from and share with global leaders in the education space.

The call for proposals is open to secondary education interventions that satisfy the following thematic, geographic, and project type requirements.

Thematic Focus

• Increasing access, demand, and retention at the secondary level, including projects focused on the transition from primary to secondary school
• Improving teacher effectiveness
• Improving learning outcomes
• Promoting 21st century employment-relevant skills

Geographic Focus

• East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), Nigeria, Malawi, and India
• Projects operating in a combination of countries will also be considered.

Project Type

• Pilot Projects
• Expanding and Adapting Projects
• Scale-up Projects
• Research Projects

• Deadline for questions regarding Letters of Inquiry | May 14, 2014
• Deadline for Letter of Inquiry | June 13, 2014
• Shortlisted applicants invited to submit full Proposal | August 2014
• Deadline for Proposals | September 15, 2014
• Review of Proposals and outreach to finalists | October-December 2014
• Funding decisions made | December 2014 – March 2015

More information on project eligibility, deadlines, and procedures is available here. To learn more about the types of projects that have received funding in the past, please visit the CEI blog. We wish you the best of luck in the application process!