Angola launched ProFuturo’s proposal to bring educational innovation with technology to the world’s most vulnerable schools in 2016. Since then, the project has reached millions of teachers and students in 39 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. In 2023 alone, ProFuturo trained 342,000 teachers and reached 1.2 million children.
In 2024, the project will be 8 years old, enough time to take stock of its results and the lessons learned along the way. Since its inception, its intervention has been based on the evidence of progress and results provided by continuous monitoring processes, studies and evaluations to achieve greater social impact.
Monitoring makes it possible to track the progress and use of equipment, platforms and content in schools, activities carried out by teachers and students, and the commitment of school managers. Schools have been classified into 5 levels according to their level of appropriation of the programme, and reinforcements and prescriptive improvement plans have been established with new educational proposals for students, the development of teacher leaders and teacher training and accompaniment.
All this effort has resulted in a very positive assessment of ProFuturo as shown by the data from the annual 2023 survey answered by 76,000 students, 15,000 teachers and 245 coaches. Significant improvements are seen in motivation to attend school (91%), improvements in students’ digital (76%) and curricular competences (73%); improvements in pedagogical practices with technology (75%) and teacher motivation (82%), and improvements in the overall learning experience expressed by students (91%) and teachers (80%).
Throughout this time we have also grown thanks to a wide network of global implementing partners such as UNHCR, World Vision, Save the Children, Entreculturas, International Rescue Committee (IRC), Teach For All, UNESCO, the Organization of American States (OAS), or the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), funding partners such as American Tower, and through participation in knowledge networks and the exchange of international best practices.
In order to gain in efficiency and impact, ProFuturo proposes an evolution with 4 main axes until 2026: strengthening our intervention models, technological and educational innovation, and partnership and sustainability strategies. Priority will be given to obtaining evidence of impact indicators in 3 dimensions: reduction of the educational and digital gap in students, improvement of digital competencies of teachers and digital transformation of schools. All this supported by a Monitoring and Evaluation System with the use of analytical data for decision making and continuous improvement of the program.
It is not possible to look to the future without recognizing that we advance on the shoulders of giants who preceded us. ProFuturo is the legacy of a visionary like César Alierta. It cannot be understood without his tireless drive, which took shape on July 13, 2016 in a joint agreement between Telefonica Foundation and “la Caixa” Foundation. And his commitment, which led him to travel the world to close agreements with implementing partners and meet with ministries of education to infect them with his educational vision. I thank him from the bottom of my heart, and I assume with honor the presidency of Pro – Futuro Foundation to continue betting on making our world more humane through Education.
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