Education Systems in Action : Transforming Data into Education Policy Implementation – SABER Annual Report 2019
The year 2019 marked the first year of the new phase of the SABER program, which has progressed to develop and provide technical assistance in relation to streamlined initiatives such as the Global Comparability of Learning Outcomes (GCLO), to make learning data from different assessments comparable across countries; the multidimensional Global Education Policy Dashboard (GEPD), to assess the capacity and performance of the education systems in client countries in terms of how well their practices (or service delivery), policies, and politics are oriented toward learning and attainment for all children; and the Education Policy Design Labs (EPDLs), to guide the identification of the most binding constraints to learning and the selection of interventions to tackle those binding constraints in a given country context. Moving forward, in 2020 SABER intends to continue supporting client countries in the deployment of these new initiatives at the country level to improve education system performance to achieve better outcomes, through the collection and validation of data, production and dissemination of web data, policy dialogue, country-based and regional capacity development, expansion of learning assessment coverage, and upstream support based on international good practices to inform the design of reforms, programs, or projects. These are core to the new Foundational Learning Compact (FLC), which underlies the emerging new comprehensive WBG strategic approach to help countries build strong systems that are constructed with a focus of achieving universal foundational learning.