The Balochistan diagnostic was led by a team of policy consultants and government advisors collaborating across two organisations: Verso Consulting and Juniper Policy Consulting. This team has been working in Balochistan for many years and was involved in helping to craft education sector plans in 2013 and 2019.

The Ecuador pilot was conducted by a team at SUMMA, Laboratorio de Investigación e Innovación en Educación para América Latina y el Caribe, including two former senior government of cials (including a former minister) who had served in the Ecuador education system. The team took advantage of its strong networks in government to convene a high-level steering committee, which was the main audience of the diagnostic exercise.

The Gauteng pilot was led by a team of researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand. Some members of the team have been deeply engaged with the Gauteng Department of Education for many years, and this agency was the government counterpart for this project.

The Education Partnerships Group (EPG) was engaged by Ghana’s Ministry of Education to create an accountability for learning framework for Ghana. The framework was a loan-linked government deliverable within a large World Bank project.

GSL are using the RISE Education Systems Diagnostic as a tool for cross-country organisational learning, to better understand the systemic misalignments that hinder school leaders from improving teaching and learning.

The pilot in a northern Indian state was conducted by the Central Square Foundation (CSF). Their team was able to incorporate the pilot into a larger engagement with the state government, one of 12 such engagements CSF has with states in India to support their implementation of renewed efforts to improve foundational literacy and numeracy.

The diagnostic pilot in Uganda was initially suggested by counterparts at the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Offi ce. The RISE team sought out EPRC, a think tank, to conduct the pilot.