Evaluation of the Ndaw Wune Remedial Education Program in Senegal

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Multilingual education, in the local languages that students know and understand, has incredible potential to improve learning for children living in low- and middle-income countries.

Ndaw Wune, or “Success for All”, is a multilingual, remedial education program implemented by the Associates in Research and Education for Development (ARED) and funded by the Gates Foundation, which aims to enhance learning outcomes for children in Senegal. Since its inception in 2021, ARED's Ndaw Wune program has provided remedial education to 4,000 grade 2 and 3 students across four regions in Senegal. The program offers afterschool classes in Senegalese languages, focusing on the lowest performing students.
 

AIR's Evaluation of Ndaw Wune

AIR is conducting a rigorous impact evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis of the Ndaw Wune program to gather essential data to inform program scale-up. With a sample size of 1,120 students across 70 schools (35 treatment and 35 comparison schools), we are administering an adapted version of the Early Grade Reading Assessment and Early Grade Math Assessment to evaluate growth in students' skills over the course of their participation in the program.

Our concurrent cost analysis is determining overall and per-student costs of the program, which will help provide ARED and the Ministry of Education with insights for program scale-up.

Evaluation findings will be available in late 2025.

Contact
Pooja Nakamura
Principal Researcher and Program Area Lead, International Education