GEM Centre: Completion report for Phase 3 funding, 2017–2020

Abstract

This report describes the focus and outcomes of the third triennium (2020–2023) of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Centre partnership between the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The GEM Centre was founded by ACER in 2013 as a strategic research initiative to provide models of good practice for monitoring United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4: education for all. Over the last decade, the GEM Centre has successfully leveraged ACER’s and DFAT’s foreign policy and development expertise to build strong, collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders working on the global education 2030 agenda. The GEM Centre has provided public goods and best practices for monitoring SDG 4 and has effectively shaped how learning outcomes are monitored and reported globally. This completion report focuses on phase 3 of the ACER and DFAT partnership in the GEM Centre and summarises the main outcomes.