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from evidence
to adoption

Elimu-Soko builds the operating system that moves proven education solutions from evidence to government adoption, permanently.

Proof exists
Scale doesn't happen

We're here to fix that

Across Africa proven solutions sit on the shelf. Governments have the mandate to deliver education at scale. Funders have invested in proof. Innovators have done the work. What’s missing is the decision and coordination infrastructure that turns evidence into government adoption and scale.

Rwanda. Zanzibar. Government-approved scale-up decisions in both. We know what the journey from pilot to adoption actually requires and we know where it breaks down.

Need to network

We start with government priorities, then seek funders and innovators willing to support that direction.

Budget to build

We judge success by cost per learner at scale, treating affordability as a design constraint, not an afterthought.

Pilot to scale

We stay through the handoffs where most reforms stall, until governments take full ownership. 

That's what Elimu-Soko builds.

Learn How We Work

The model works

Here's the evidence

Rwanda - 2021​
In 2021, we worked with the Government of Rwanda to pilot teacher training with Rising Academies across 40 schools, reaching 18,000 students and 260 teachers. In 2023, the Government of Rwanda approved scaling the programme nationally.
Zanzibar - 2023
In 2023, we worked with the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar and TeachUNITED on a teacher training pilot across 40 schools, reaching 20,000 students and 200 teachers. The government has approved scale-up.
In both cases:
Government priorities shaped the design. Fiscal constraints were built in from the start. When the evidence was strong enough, governments made the decision to adopt. That's the model.

The hard part isn't proving what works. It's getting it adopted.

The reason for this is structural. Funders, governments, and innovators operate on disconnected timelines, respond to misaligned incentives, and answer to different stakeholders.

Rwanda and Zanzibar worked because someone owned the whole journey: the adoption decision, the transition financing, the path into government delivery.

No one else owns that gap. Elimu-Soko does.

Our Approach

In 2025, we scaled our work across Africa through a partnership with the Gates Foundation. The partnership funds proven innovators to test scalable, affordable approaches to foundational literacy and numeracy instruction in public education across Africa.

Elimu-Soko works for

Innovators

You’ve proven your model works. We help you reach government adoption so your impact doesn’t end when donor funding does.

Funders

You invest in solutions that work. We help ensure what worked is adopted, financed, and sustained within government, and that your next investment connects to what comes after it.

Governments

Too often proven solutions that reach you are not designed around your budgets or timelines. We work alongside you to make adoption feasible on your terms, within your constraints.