The Jacobs Foundation, together with the Colombian Ministry of Education and Fundación Empresarios por la Educación, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to contribute to the improvement of the holistic learning outcomes of children in Colombia based on a collaborative strategy with actors across the education sector.

This alliance, signed in Bogotá earlier this month by the Vice Minister of Preschool, Basic and Secondary Education, Óscar Sánchez, on behalf of Minister Aurora Vergara; Fabio Segura, Co-CEO of the Jacobs Foundation; and Andrea Escobar, Executive Director of the Fundación Empresarios por la Educación, seeks to find constant dialogue between educational practices and evidence-based decision making to improve pedagogical practices, with the ultimate aim of supporting children’s development and learning.

‘Colombia has strong research institutions and evaluation capacity, and our goal is to work with multi-stakeholder partnerships to inject even greater rigour into the creation, connection and use of evidence in decision-making at all levels of the system,’ said Jacobs Foundation Co-CEO Fabio Segura, speaking about the Memorandum.

The Memorandum of Understanding is a part of the Jacobs Foundation’s commitment to Colombia. The Foundation is also supporting the Ministry of National Education in the implementation of a strategy to strengthen certified departmental territorial entities, especially those with significant experiences in education, and specifically territories affected by armed conflict and climate change and located in dispersed rural areas.