The Center for Education Innovations (CEI) seeks to promote the scale-up and adaptation of promising policies and practices that improve the access, affordability, and quality of non-state education interventions for the poor in mostly low income countries.

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation asked Results for Development Institute to develop frameworks for costing, cost-effectiveness analysis, and financial sustainability that the Foundation can use consistently across five CIFF priority areas: neonatal mortality, early childhood education, severe and acute malnutrition, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and de-worming.

Leveraging its extensive experience with both international goals in general and education goals in particular, R4D is conducting an exercise to investigate and scope a post-MDG education framework.

With support from The Rockefeller Foundation, R4D aims to identify the skills students in developing countries need in order to best position them for employment opportunities, and then explore paths to scale up the most effective models of delivering these skills in Africa and Asia.

R4D is working with global philanthropic foundations and other donor organizations that are seeking the most effective ways to discover, invest in, and scale up or cross-pollinate successful early childhood learning models.