Catch Up Learning Programmes: A Landscape Review in the NGO Space – Research Report

Dery, Portia; Hedges, Claire and Okada, Alexandra (2025). Catch Up Learning Programmes: A Landscape Review in the NGO Space – Research Report. The Open University.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00102395

Abstract

This landscape report aims to provide a review of humanitarian educational programmes designed to improve
foundational learning skills for vulnerable children and increase their access to and progress within formal
educational systems. The report explores key aspects of these programmes, including children targeted,
content focus, pedagogical approaches and delivery systems. By analyzing these dimensions across various
accelerated and catch-up learning initiatives, the report seeks to understand what decisions organizations are
making in their design, implementation and evaluation of programmes. and how these choices impact
outcomes.
In particular, the report aims to inform the World Vision Catch-Up Programme (CUP) by mapping similar
initiatives, exploring outcomes and identifying both commonalities and differences with other initiatives. This
comparison can then help to position CUP within the broader context of accelerated and catch-up education
for children affected by conflict, displacement, or other crises.
The landscape review focuses on examples of accelerated and catch-up learning initiatives active in the past
three years, many of which have been profiled by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies
(INEE). The following major NGOs and their accelerated and catch-up learning programmes are covered:
Luminos Fund, Save the Children, War Child, Plan International, VVOB, Creative Associates International,
UNICEF and FHI 360. All implement programmes in multiple countries and contexts.

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