KIX Regional Hubs

KIX Africa 19 manages the hub that oversees activities in 18 Global Partnership for Education partner countries, primarily in East, South and West Africa. It is a consortium comprised of three organizations:

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa, which promotes international collaboration in education, sciences, and culture to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights, along with fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the United Nations Charter.
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) – Eastern and Southern Africa, which provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children around the world.
• African Union, which is made up of 55 member states that encompass the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). ADEA, a pan-African institution built on partnerships between African ministries of education and training and their technical and external partners, aims to act as a catalyst for reforms and promising policies and practices by pooling ideas, experiences, lessons learned, and knowledge.

KIX Africa 21 manages the hub that oversees activities in 21 Global Partnership for Education partner countries, primarily in West and Central Africa and the Indian Ocean. It is a consortium comprised of three organizations:

• Institut de la Francophonie pour l’éducation et la formation (IFEF), which contributes to the development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of national education policies. IFEF facilitates capacity-building activities for actors in the education sector and strengthens the capacities of governments and partners to improve the quality of French-language education programs in member countries of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
• Conférence des ministres de l’Éducation des États et gouvernements de la Francophonie, which are biennial ministerial meetings that aim to guide the development of educational policies in member countries of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
• L’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), which is a global network of French-speaking higher-education and research institutions that supports cooperation and solidarity among French-speaking universities and other academic institutions. The AUF has 944 members located throughout Francophone countries, made up of public and private universities, institutes of higher education, research centres and institutions, institutional networks, and networks of university administrators.

KIX EMAP is made up of one organization that oversees activities in Global Partnership for Education partner countries in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Pacific region.

The Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training (NORRAG) is a global membership-based network. NORRAG’s core mandate and strength is producing, disseminating, and brokering critical knowledge and building capacity among the wide range of stakeholders that constitute the network. These stakeholders inform and shape education policies and practice at national and international levels. They are united by a shared commitment to principles of social justice, equity, and quality in education.

KIX LAC oversees activities in Global Partnership for Education partner countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a consortium of three organizations:

• SUMMA, created in 2016 by the Inter-American Development Bank and Fundación Chile, with the support of the education ministries of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay. As the first education research and innovation laboratory for Latin America and the Caribbean, SUMMA’s mission is to increase the quality, equity, and inclusion of educational systems in the region by improving the decision-making process for educational policies and practices.
• The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), which is dedicated to economic harmonization and integration, protecting human and legal rights, and encouraging good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the eastern Caribbean. OECS currently has 11 members spread across the region: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the British Virgin Islands.