Transitions to Formal Education: Evidence-based Strategies to Ensure All Learners Thrive in School

This report is meant to be used together with our high-level guidance and STEP planning tool, which will help education leaders prioritise which stages and associated actions are most relevant for their local contexts and operational realities. Both this synthesis report, and the accompanying high-level guidance, are anchored in the most comprehensive AEP evidence base to date, collected and analysed through Education.org’s pioneering approach to evidence synthesis—LIFTED or The Locally Inclusive Framework for Transforming Evidence into Education Decision-Making. LIFTED distils the most relevant, high-quality evidence from a wide range of sources, including academic studies, government documents, and programmatic reports. To determine relevance and quality, all sources were rigorously assessed against a set of criteria tailored to the synthesis questions, analytical framework, and geographical contexts of focus.