Improving literacy for children through the support of community networks in Ghana, Honduras, and Nicaragua: A cross-country comparison of key learnings related to adaptation and scaling for impact of World Vision’s Unlock Literacy reading camps

This report presents a cross-country comparison of key research findings related to adaptation and scaling for impact of World Vision’s Unlock Literacy reading camps in Ghana, Honduras, and Nicaragua as part of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) project, entitled Improving literacy for children through the support of community networks project. This project was conducted from April 2020 to February 2023 by the Unlock Literacy Learning Network (ULLN), a consortium of partners consisting of researchers and implementers.

The main research question guiding this qualitative comparative case study is as follows: How can community actors and networks in Ghana, Honduras, and Nicaragua, each with distinct contexts, be enabled and strengthened to develop and use their own adaptive systems when implementing World Vision’s Unlock Literacy program at scale to improve the literacy outcomes of girls and boys, including those who are marginalized?