About
Ghana has a strong commitment to providing meaningful educational opportunities to all learners, and sees education as a tool for national development. Its longstanding free education policy has increased enrolment and reduced traditional barriers to access. With support from the World Bank, FCDO, UNICEF, and others, Ghana’s Ministry of Education is now focused on transforming the system to improve learning outcomes, reduce inequality, strengthen teacher capacity, and enhance inclusion.
EdTech Hub works closely with the Ministry of Education and its agencies to explore how educational technology can support these national reform goals.
Bridging the Gap
The challenge
Ghana generates extensive education data through multiple national and sub-national systems, but these often operate in silos, making it difficult to integrate, compare, and use the data collectively to inform policy, practice, and accountability. This fragmentation reduces the efficiency and timeliness of data use, leading to gaps in planning, resource allocation, and service delivery. The education system also faces barriers to inclusion for learners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), as well as growing risks from climate-related threats such as flooding and extreme heat that disrupt learning. Limited capacity at different levels, combined with delivery challenges, have made it difficult to embed evidence-based decision-making across the sector.
How EdTech Hub helps
EdTech Hub collaborates with Ghana’s Ministry of Education and its agencies to address the above-mentioned challenges by helping to create a system-wide approach to data use, generating evidence on SEND to inform policy decisions, and enhancing resilience to climate-related risks in education through research and evidence. This collaboration includes mapping existing systems and interventions, co-developing integrated data dashboards, and providing technical assistance through the EdTech Hub Helpdesk. EdTech Hub is currently supporting the improvement and testing of the Ministry’s accountability dashboard with the aim of increasing dashboard use and strengthening effective data culture at all levels.
In addition, EdTech Hub is conducting a landscape analysis on SEND in Ghana, examining the policy and legislative environment, service delivery systems, infrastructure and resources, socio-cultural dynamics, teacher capacity, and the broader stakeholder landscape. EdTech Hub is also supporting the government with their climate resilience goals, by conducting implementation research to sustain education during climate shocks. Through the design and rollout of the government’s data dashboard, EdTech Hub is fostering collaboration across departments, improving governance, building capacity, and cultivating meaningful data use at national, regional, district, and school levels.
Key themes
- Climate
- Data for Decision-Making
- Digital Personalised Learning
- Girls’ Education and Technology
- Participation and Messaging
- Special Educational Needs
Insights from Our Work
Timeline of Activities
2021
- A cross-sectional survey: T-TEL Remote Teacher Training Assessment — Explored how remote training during Covid-19 closures affected student teachers.
- User research: Voices from End-Users of GLTV and GLRRP — Studied inclusive remote learning use during Covid-19 pandemic via radio and TV.
2021–2022
- Randomised controlled trial: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Study — Tested audio-based content delivery for students and teachers after the Covid-19 pandemic.
2022
- A rapid scan: EdTech Mapping with CENDLOS — Mapped existing EdTech initiatives across Ministry of Education departments to identify overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for coordination and improved implementation.
Optimising Messaging to Promote Returns to School in Ghana for Marginalised Learners
The study in Ghana tested and compared different types of nudge messages, and different messaging implementation models to support caregivers in their efforts to encourage their children’s attendance at school, and as such contributed to the body of evidence about messaging interventions, their cost-effectiveness, and how they could be optimised and contextualised.
Reports, Blogs, Case Studies and More
Working Towards Education Success Using Data: A Review of Ghana’s Journey Towards Improved Learning Outcomes Using Data
The sub-Saharan Africa region is trapped in a learning crisis with devastating implications for children. The Covid-19 pandemic further exacerbated the situation, with children losing an estimated equivalent of…
EdTech Hub Supported the Government of Ghana’s Effective Use of Data for Decision-Making
This case study documents the Ministry of Education’s journey in Ghana towards making better use of data to guide policy and practice, and highlights how EdTech Hub has supported them…
What is ‘Nudging’ and How Does it Change Behaviour in Education?
This Learning Brief is part of the EdTech Hub Learning Brief Series, providing practical resources for people working to improve the use of technology in education. In this brief,…
Using Technology to Improve Education for Marginalised Girls: Lessons in implementation from the Girls’ Education Challenge
This article presents the findings of an in-depth study on the implementation of six EdTech-supported projects within the UK Government Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s Girls’ Education Challenge…
Can Nudge Messaging Positively Influence School Attendance?
In recent years, Northern Ghana has made significant strides in providing and expanding educational opportunities for girls, aiming to encourage returns to school, encourage classroom attendance, and combat early child…
Using Cost-effective Technology to Improve Education for Marginalised Girls
This desk review and qualitative study provides an overview of the implementation ecosystems of six of the Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) projects, highlighting influential factors in the enabling environments that…
Story of Change
In recent years, Northern Ghana has made significant strides in providing and expanding educational opportunities for girls, aiming to encourage returns to school, encourage classroom attendance, and combat early child marriages – a culture still practised in some communities.
A parent from the Zarantinga community shares how nudge messages positively influenced his perspective, encouraging him to prioritize his daughter’s education.
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Evidence for Decision-Making
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