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EIDU

unlocking potential

EIDU helps governments solve the global learning crisis at scale. It combines proven structured pedagogy with digital personalised learning in one government-ready platform, enabling teachers, supervisors, and systems to continuously improve foundational literacy and numeracy for millions of children, all at a cost education systems can sustain.
HundrED 2024

Overview

HundrED has selected this innovation to

HundrED Global Collection 2024

HundrED Global Collection 2023

Updated February 2026
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EIDU’s integrated, impactful learning tools strengthen learners' and teachers' skills from the moment they begin using them, while empowering governments and the global education community to improve education systems faster than ever before. This allows to close the education gap for low-income countries through an easy-to-scale and affordable solution and make SDG4 a reality.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Today, in low-income countries only 1 in 10 children can read by the age of 10, despite majority of them going to school. Solutions in the form of structured pedagogy, which combines teacher training and structured lesson plans, have been successfully implemented as one of the most effective ways to solve this problem. Low-cost digitization allows us to make the solutions scalable and impactful.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

EIDU integrates structured pedagogy and digital learning into everyday classroom routines. Proven programmes such as Tayari—developed by RTI and the Kenyan government and shown to deliver learning gains of around 0.5 standard deviations—are fully digitised and embedded into the platform.

Teacher supervisors are trained first and then coach teachers through school visits, supported by EIDU’s digital tools. Classrooms are equipped with a minimal number of smartphones, used by teachers for daily lesson guidance and by students for short, play-based learning sessions featuring thousands of high-impact activities. Learner progress is assessed continuously, enabling governments and partners to monitor effectiveness and adjust instruction and policy based on real-time evidence.

How has it been spreading?

EIDU began working in Kenya in 2016 and scaled through government partnerships following successful pilots, including collaboration with Mombasa County to digitise and roll out Tayari in public pre-primary schools. In 2022, all 47 Kenyan counties passed a resolution to include EIDU in their development plans, and the solution received approval from the Kenyan Institute of Curriculum Development.

EIDU now reaches over 750,000 learners through large-scale government implementation in Kenya and expansion in Nigeria, with pilots in Rwanda and Pakistan. Its scalability and system-readiness have been recognised globally, including selection by UNICEF’s Global Learning Innovation Hub as one of the first “Blue Unicorn” solutions to be fast-tracked for scale.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

EIDU works in partnership with governments and system-level education actors. Interested partners can contact EIDU to explore alignment with national or regional education priorities, assess readiness for implementation, and co-design a pilot or scale-up pathway tailored to their context and infrastructure.

Impact & scalability

HundrED Academy Reviews

EIDU is transforming public education in Kenya through child-centred and play based pedagogy. The solution combines active learning, play, and technology in a holistic approach that promotes student agency and teachers' professional growth.

The fact that all 47 Kenyan counties passed a resolution in 2022 to include EIDU in their development plans is strong evidence of scale.

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Implementation steps

1. Government approval
Define (county) government agreements to start operations in the public schools in scope
2. Host onboarding townhalls
Invite school representatives to a kick-off event where schools are onboarded on the EIDU solution and they receive the first digital devices. In a single event more than 3,000 learners are included in the program.
3. Set up learners profile and ready to go
Profiles for each learner in the class are created by the teacher and already within a few hours learners can start using the devices as part of the digital personalised learning curriculum. In turn, teachers can also start using the devices to prepare and conduct their lessons through the structured pedagogy component of the EIDU solution.
4. Supervision by government staff and EIDU staff
Regular school visits and conducted by EIDU staff (during foundation phase) and government staff (both foundation phase and then on ongoing basis) to monitor usage, encourage high adoption, and troubleshoot when needed. Through online dashboard they can identify those underperforming schools that require more attention.
5. Data analysis and policy adoption
Full data availability on both students and teachers allows government officials with the appropriate clearance level to access data to inform education policy decisions to maximise use of existing resources and ensure high levels of education.

Spread of the innovation

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