The Role of Delivery Approaches in Education Systems Reform: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study

DeliverEd Initiative Working Paper

Authored by: Sheena Bell, Clare Leaver, Zahra Mansoor, Karen Mundy, Dana Qarout, and Martin J. Williams

This report synthesizes the findings of a multi-country, multi-team research project into the effectiveness of delivery approaches at improving education service delivery. The main countries studied were Ghana, Jordan, and Pakistan, with smaller studies in Sierra Leone and a soon-to-be-completed study in Tanzania. We also conducted a global mapping of the design and adoption of delivery approaches. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed in different ways across our country cases, and all research was based on a common conceptual framework developed by Williams et al. (2021), under the DeliverEd program, which enabled us to synthesize a disparate set of research studies into a common portrait of the ways delivery approaches impacted the education systems across these cases.