Partnering to make ambitious change go further
Foundations and trusts play a vital role in tackling the world's most pressing education and employment challenges, but they cannot achieve this alone. Through evidence, delivery expertise, and a deep understanding of education systems, we help funders create the sustainable impact they want to see.
Complex challenges demand more than funding.
Improving learning outcomes, strengthening teaching, and supporting people into meaningful work depends on strong partnerships. We provide foundations and trusts with advice and technical assistance, help them to design and deliver initiatives, and tailor solutions to local contexts.
We work with foundations and trusts across a wide range of areas:
- strengthening foundational learning, particularly for the most marginalised children
- building teachers’ capacity to improve outcomes, often in challenging contexts
- improving school systems, including through better inspections and use of data
- helping learners to access education in fragile and crisis-affected contexts.
How do we work with you?
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Identifying priorities
Using evidence and insight to understand challenges and opportunities.
Design effective solutions
Creating programmes that respond to local needs while drawing on what has been proven to work.
Deliver at scale
Turning plans into action, using the people, partnerships, and experience needed to do this successfully.
Measure impact
Tracking outcomes, generating evidence, and demonstrating how we are driving change.
Why foundations and trusts partner with EDT
Everything we do is grounded in evidence. Drawing on research, data, and practical experience, we help partners understand what initiatives work, why they work, and how successful approaches can be adapted for different contexts.
We don’t just plan, we deliver. Our unique combination of strategic thinking with hands-on delivery is key in turning ideas into results.
We focus on ensuring change is sustainable. We strengthen systems and build local capacity so impact can continue long after projects end.
Global experience, local understanding. Our international work means we can draw on a wide range of experience whilst ensuring initiatives reflect local needs and realities.
We've partnered with
Embedding play-based learning in Rwanda with UNICEF
In partnership with UNICEF, we supported Rwanda’s Ministry of Education to develop a national strategy and framework to embed learning through play in the education system. Operationalised in 2025, the strategy and framework is set to impact the learning of 1.2 million children across Rwanda. Speaking with our Principal Consultant, Amy Barnecutt, at the FLEX 2026 conference, UNICEF Education Specialist Yonah Nyundo explained why the partnership was so effective.
Our work with foundations and trusts
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