Voices of Youth Change Education; Driving Inclusive Learning Together

We are excited to share that IDP has been awarded a grant from the British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK) focused on Youth-Led Adaptive Problem Solving for Inclusive Education in Nepal. Direct implementation officially begins this month, marking an important step toward strengthening education governance by empowering youth, educators, and government officials to co-diagnose systemic challenges and work collaboratively to design solutions grounded in evidence and lived realities.

As part of this initiative, we will convene a multi-day youth workshop in Lumbini Province, followed by two days with youth and Provincial Education Officials working together. This group of delegates will then meet with MoEST officials in Kathmandu to share proposed action plans. The workshop will engage youths from across the region to explore practical applications of data for improving learning outcomes, promoting equitable access, and designing more inclusive education systems using methods of Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA), an approach for finding local solutions to local problems.

Adapting the Problem-Drive Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to systems change, this program reflects youth at the center of problem identification and solution design, and by integrating provincial actors—the “missing middle” of federalism—into the process. We are looking forward to collaborating with and learning from our participants, partners, and community as we begin this journey.

More updates to come as we move into the implementation phase.