From 8 to 12 September 2025, IID participated in the Social Accountability Learning Collaborative Workshop held in the Philippines, joining peers and practitioners from across countries to share experiences, explore frameworks, and strengthen strategies for promoting accountability in education.
This was part of the Learning Collaborative on Social Accountability in Education, convened under Education Out Loud (EOL), a program of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Learning Collaboratives are peer-learning platforms where civil society organizations exchange lessons and co-create knowledge for wider use.
The workshop brought together EOL OC2 grantees, IID (Bangladesh), I-SAPS (Pakistan), Karkhana Samuha (Nepal), MACDI (Vietnam), and CYAN (Philippines) with MDF Asia serving as the learning partner.
The Learning Collaborative, designed as a space for deep reflection and collective learning, provided an opportunity for IID to connect its on-ground practices with global perspectives. Through interactive sessions, group coaching, and cross-country exchanges, the workshop helped IID to reflect on how social accountability initiatives can be more inclusive, evidence-based, and transformative in ensuring every child’s right to education.
IID’s Learning from the Social Accountability Learning Collaborative
Throughout the workshop, IID’s reflections emerged around three key dimensions: Process, Priority, and Purpose.
- Process Clarity: Engaging in peer coaching, mapping exercises, and conceptual deep-dives encouraged IID to reflect on how it implements social accountability; identifying areas where internal frameworks could be made more strategic, efficient, and intentional.
- Prioritization Lens: The sessions offered new perspectives on what to prioritize; whether tools, partnerships, or capacity strengthening and how these priorities can align with long-term impact goals.
- Purpose Reaffirmation: Empathy-building exercises and cross-country dialogues reinforced IID’s commitment to its core purpose: enabling the most marginalized communities to claim their right to education through participatory and accountable systems.
The Way Forward
Building on these learnings, IID will soon conduct an internal reflection exercise to revisit its programs through the lens of process, priority, and purpose; identifying opportunities for adaptation and improvement.
In addition, IID plans to re-engage with partners and networks, learning from their contextual experiences and co-developing practical strategies to strengthen IID’s own models of social accountability in education.
This global exchange not only deepened IID’s understanding of its role in advancing accountability but also reaffirmed its vision of a future where every learner’s voice is heard, and every right is realized.