LEAP Innovative public-private partnership model to rebuild a national public school system

Our engagement with the Liberian Education Advancement Program (LEAP) began in 2016 and ended in 2024.

The government of Liberia initiated the Liberian Education Advancement Program (LEAP) in 2016 after years of civil conflict, which had shattered lives as well as 80% of the country’s school infrastructure, and the compounded crisis of the Ebola epidemic. LEAP is a public-private partnership that delivers 100% tuition-free primary education throughout Liberia, from early childhood education through grade 6. Non-state school partners build additional public school capacity by sharing know-how in the areas of school management, educational pedagogy and teaching excellence. 

Read about the key reflections and learnings from the Liberia Education Advancement Program (LEAP), spanning from 2016 to 2024. PDF Download

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Our engagement

We invested in LEAP as part of LGT Venture Philanthropy’s education strategy to support solutions which provide high-quality primary education and, in turn, promote global learning and employability. We provide comprehensive support across three areas:

Business expertise

  • Leadership role to help transition the partnership to a more sustainable funding mechanism  

  • Development of professional marketing collateral e.g. fundraising pitches  

  • Global advocacy to promote LEAP as a successful model to improve quality of education in public education systems  


Partnership

  • Support in improving stakeholder collaboration, program communications and fundraising 

Capabilities

  • Funding for core operations, including school operators to support program scale   

  • Funding management, oversight and aggregated reporting based on independent impact evaluation

In 2021

  • 71 840

    pupils enrolled in LEAP schools

  • 2 474

    teachers trained

  • 323

    LEAP schools

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