Articles & Interviews

The Jacobs Foundation’s Samuel Kembou, Global Lead for Learning and Evidence, recently joined Emilie Compignie on the Donors | Tips  podcast to share insights on the strategic role of philanthropy, the power of public-private partnerships, and how mobilizing resources can create a lasting impact in education. Public-private partnerships are critical in addressing complex education challenges, ensuring sustainable funding […]

Over the past two decades, governments have increasingly used policy units and labs to push for educational reforms. However, research on EdLabs is scarce—less than 40% of the 76 policy labs assessed in one review pertained to education. During a recent ‘Let’s Talk Education Africa’ podcast episode, Samuel Kembou—Global Lead for Learning and Evidence at […]

In our special two-part podcast series ‘Evidence in Practice,’ you can hear from some of our previous Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize nominees and winners with the co-leads of our Learning Societies Portfolio, Gelgia Fetz Fernandes and Ana Cubillo. They sit down to discuss the real-life challenges of using evidence in practice and hear […]