Everyone has a part to play.
Find your role in One Big Change Kenya. Explore the seven roles that make up the movement, the partnerships that hold it together, and how your school can become a hub.
Lasting change needs the whole system around it.
Each part of the education ecosystem has a different role. One Big Change creates a shared structure through which those contributions can strengthen one another.
Public institutions
Provide direction, insight and the conditions needed for coordinated implementation.
Schools and educators
Shape the work, lead implementation and identify what is practical in real education settings.
Universities and researchers
Strengthen programme design, evaluation, knowledge-sharing and evidence.
Implementation experts
Contribute practical methods, tools, facilitation and specialist support.
Traction Partners
Remove financial, technological, logistical and capacity barriers to participation.
Families and communities
Help make implementation relevant, trusted, inclusive and sustainable.
Different institutions. One shared priority.
Public Institutions
Provide strategic alignment, policy context and routes into implementation.
Examples
Ministry of Education, TSC, KNEC, KICD, County Education Offices
Evidence should travel both ways.
Research can strengthen implementation, but practice must also shape the questions research asks. One Big Change works to connect universities with educators and implementation settings so that evidence is useful, accessible and grounded in real experience.
Our approach has been shaped through programme development, research conversations and education partnerships in the UK.
- University of NorthamptonWork developed with
- University of GreenwichWork developed with
We are currently developing Kenya-based research and evaluation partnerships aligned with the first shared priority.
Kenyan leadership.International contribution.One shared purpose.
Kenyan educators, practitioners, researchers and institutions will lead the context, relationships and implementation.
Carefully selected international contributors may bring relevant experience, comparative learning and established methods where their involvement is useful and invited.
Kenya Education Advisory Council
Kenya Education Advisory Council
The Kenya Education Advisory Council will bring together educators, school leaders, researchers, policy and implementation specialists, and community voices to guide priorities, strengthen the model and maintain its relevance to Kenyan education.
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OBC programme experts
Our UK work has enabled us to begin developing relationships and programmes with experienced practitioners. Relevant methods may be considered for the Kenya programme through local co-design rather than transferred unchanged.
Annette Ruth Pearson
Staff wellbeing, leadership and whole-school culture
Wellbeing PillarSupports school leaders and staff to reduce burnout, improve decision-making and build healthier whole-school cultures.
Adam Probert
School leadership and organisational clarity
CPD PillarEquips school leaders with practical tools, mindset and frameworks to navigate complexity and lead with clarity and purpose.
Ciro Candia
Fathers, families, resilience and character
Academic PillarHelps schools engage fathers and families in strengthening children's resilience, character and connection between home and school.
Every contribution is examined, adapted and co-designed.
Businesses do not simply fund programmes.
They help remove barriers to implementation.
Traction Partners contribute the funding, infrastructure, technology, expertise or access that enables schools and communities to participate meaningfully.
Their support is connected to a defined implementation need and a transparent evidence journey.
Starting nationally. Growing locally. Building across all regions.
The programme begins with 10 founding schools selected from major counties across Kenya's regions, including Kakamega, Busia, Kisumu, Kisii, Bomet, Kericho, Uasin Gishu, Nakuru, Mombasa, Meru, Machakos, Nairobi, Kiambu and others. Each founding school becomes a Hub for its county, supporting 9 other schools and creating a national network of 100 schools with local support hubs in every participating county.
The first implementation community
The first implementation community brings together 10 founding schools from across Kenya. Each school participates in the year-long programme, works through local MicroSummits, and contributes to a coordinated evidence journey. By the end of the first year, each founding school has become a Hub for its county, supporting 9 other schools and building a national network of 100 schools.
Partnership development underwayFuture county networks
Learning from this first cycle will shape how the model expands into additional counties, creating a sustainable national network of school improvement partnerships across Kenya.
Kenya School Improvement Partnership
Technology to Teaching Impact. Powered by the One Big Change Implementation Framework.
Why This Programme Exists
Schools do not need more disconnected initiatives.
They need structured implementation support.
Rather than asking schools to tackle multiple priorities simultaneously, each school identifies one strategic improvement priority aligned with its context and national education priorities. That priority becomes the focus for an entire year of implementation support.
Programme Theme
Technology to Teaching Impact
Accelerating Competency Based Education through School Leadership and Digital Implementation
The programme supports schools to maximise the educational value of existing investments in technology and teacher development.
The focus is not on purchasing more equipment.
The focus is on helping teachers and school leaders confidently use the resources already available to improve classroom practice.
Alignment with National Priorities
Strengthening implementation, not replacing existing initiatives
KSIP is designed to strengthen implementation, not replace existing initiatives.
Partnership Structure
Everyone has a role to play
Ministry of Education
Strategic alignment, policy support, national scalability
County Education Departments
Local implementation, school engagement, regional coordination
Hub Schools
Programme leadership, peer collaboration, local coordination
Kenyan Education Experts
Leadership development, teacher support, implementation coaching
University Partners
Research, impact evaluation, academic governance, evidence publication
Corporate and Foundation Partners
Programme funding, employee volunteering, innovation support, impact reporting
One Big Change
Implementation methodology, programme quality assurance, partner coordination
Why Partners Invest
Move beyond funding infrastructure. Fund measurable outcomes.
Corporate Partners
- Annual impact reporting
- ESG evidence
- Community impact
- Employee volunteering
- National visibility
- Case studies
- Research publications
- Long term social impact
Government
- A scalable implementation framework
- Stronger public and private collaboration
- Independent evidence of programme impact
- Leadership development
- Improved implementation of existing priorities
- Better value from existing investments
- A repeatable county based improvement model
Universities
- Codesign research
- Evaluate implementation
- Publish findings
- Support postgraduate research
- Influence national policy
- Build international collaborations
Founding Pilot
Launching in Nairobi and Kiambu
Ten founding schools selected from major counties across Kenya, including Kakamega, Busia, Kisumu, Kisii, Bomet, Kericho, Uasin Gishu, Nakuru, Mombasa, Meru, Machakos, Nairobi, Kiambu and others. Each becomes a Hub for its county, supporting 9 partner schools. This creates a national network of 100 schools with local support hubs in every participating county.
Immediate Partnership Opportunity
We are seeking a small group of founding partners to codesign and launch Kenya's first School Improvement Partnership.
Long Term Vision
A national network of school improvement partnerships
Following successful evaluation, additional Hub Schools will be established across Kenya, creating a national network of locally led school improvement partnerships.
The long term ambition is to establish Kenya's School Improvement Partnership Platform, a sustainable ecosystem connecting government, schools, universities, corporate partners and education experts to accelerate meaningful educational improvement across the country.
Lead the change in your community
Hub schools lead implementation within their network of partner schools. If your school is ready to lead, start a conversation with our team.