On April 19, 2016, the Ministry of Education of Peru (Minedu) launched MineduLAB at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru.MineduLAB is an innovation lab for education policy housed within the Ministry of Education of Peru.The lab pilots and evaluates the effectiveness of innovations with the ultimate goal of allowing the Ministry to use evidence to improve, among others, education management indicators and children’s learning throughout the country.Critical to this success is the lab’s close ties with academia.

There is building momentum for evidence-based planning, implementation, and decision making in government.Nowhere is the need greater than in Kenya’s education sector.

The Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat and Innovations for Poverty Action organized a Policy Forum focusing on research dissemination on improving learning achievements in Kenya.