Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) Research Grants on Foundational Learning 2025 (up to $15,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2025

Are you a researcher primarily based in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, or Zambia? Applications at the moment are open for the Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) Research Grants on Foundational Learning 2025. Up to $15,000 is given to help analysis that strengthens Foundational Learning (FL) and helps form schooling coverage and observe.

These grants are part of Phase 2 of Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) and Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre’s Foundational Learning Project, constructing on the success of Phase 1 to additional strengthen the capability of FL researchers throughout sub-Saharan Africa to inform schooling coverage and observe.

This initiative is supported by the Gates Foundation and the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange.

Grants

• Up to 4 grants might be awarded per nation to particular person researchers or teams of researchers, valued at up to $15,000. These grants will cowl direct analysis bills (e.g. researcher time), analysis supplies, information assortment, designing of studies, journey for collaboration conferences and dissemination efforts.

Eligibility

Applicants for these grants should meet the next standards:

• Be Ghanaian, Kenyan, Senegalese, or Zambian residents at present primarily based in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, or Zambia respectively.  
• The lead applicant ought to have a PhD and be working in a college, analysis establishment, or authorities division/ministry in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, or Zambia. 
• Proposed analysis should focus on an space(s) recognized within the particular person nation calls.  
• The application and the submission of the analysis report must be in English or French (within the case of Senegal).

Application

Apply at present and be a part of different researchers shaping the way forward for Foundational Learning in Africa: 

For extra info, go to ESSA Research Grants.