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Investing in Evidence, Empowering Education: Why the BHP Foundation’s Education Equity Program Will Matter for Decades
Wed, April 8, 2026
Education Equity
In 2016, as the newly established BHP Foundation explored how it could contribute meaningfully to global education, it engaged leading experts, researchers, and practitioners from around the world. Although the global learning crisis was widely recognized, with hundreds of millions of children lacking basic literacy and numeracy — experts pointed to a deeper, structural issue: the education sector lacked strong, usable, and locally relevant evidence to guide highly complex decisions and reform efforts.
Read moreFirst Nations women becoming workplace assets and community role models
Tue, July 9, 2024
Australia program
Education Equity
Real Futures is working closely with UN Women’s Second Chance Education Programme to deliver a project exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia.
Read moreImproving career opportunities and choice for women and girls
Thu, March 7, 2024
Education Equity
Tailored education and leadership skills development are helping women and girls overcome cultural, economic and social barriers.
Read moreA second chance for Afghan women in Chile
Tue, October 3, 2023
Education Equity
“I’m the Afghan girl the Taliban wanted to chain. I’m the girl they wanted to imprison, who can’t study or work in that society. So, my crime and that of other Afghan women is to fight for our freedom,” 22-year-old Zahra Karimi.
Read more3 Projects empowering women through education
Wed, March 8, 2023
Chile program
Education Equity
Three evidence-based projects in Chile are helping to close the gender gap with universal, high-quality education and digital training.
Read more“Yes, you can get ahead as a woman”
Wed, February 22, 2023
Education Equity
Women’s employment is crucial for economic autonomy, as well as strengthening national economies and fostering gender equality. This is why the UN Women Second Chance Education Program is supporting women like Catalina, Denisse and Maria in their journey to security and success.
Read moreGrant to boost systemic change in education
Thu, February 16, 2023
Education Equity
A leading policy center, and long-standing BHP Foundation grantee, has received a multi-million dollar grant to boost collaborative action to transform global education ecosystems. The Brookings Institution announced its Center for Universal Education (CUE) in the Global Economy and Development program received US$24 million from LEGO Foundation, the largest grant in Brookings' century-long history.
Read moreEmpowering women to learn, earn and lead
Tue, January 24, 2023
Education Equity
UN Women’s Second Chance Education program trains vulnerable, internally displaced women and young women in poultry farming in Cameroon. This approach is supporting women in crisis, offering adaptive pathways to achieve agency, resilience economic empowerment, and leadership.
Read moreThe fast (and frightening) facts: Effects of COVID on education
Tue, November 8, 2022
Education Equity
There’s no doubt school closures as a result of COVID had a huge impact on learning opportunities for children and disproportionately affected the poorest and most vulnerable. It’s a crisis that must be prioritized.
Read more5475 days, 500 members. A celebration of Teach for All’s 15 years of extraordinary work.
Fri, October 28, 2022
Education Equity
Earlier this month, more than 500 members of Teach For All’s global community joined in a virtual celebration of the network’s 15th anniversary that was equal parts inspiring, profound, and joyful.
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