From September 16-18, 2025, The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET) hosted their 2025 Conference with the theme, “Mobilizing knowledge, partnerships, and innovations for sustainable development through education and training.”

Under the “Systems thinking” conference sub-theme, Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte (IPA’s Senior Director, Embedded Labs) participated in two panel discussions and gave a dedicated presentation on how Embedded Evidence Labs take a systems change approach to support government teams in using data and evidence to scale and implement evidence-informed policies:

• “Partnerships to strengthen evidence uptake and use: lessons from Education Labs” (co-presented with representatives from the What Works Hub for Global Education, Jacobs Foundation, J-PAL South Asia, Tanzania Institute of Education, and South African Department of Basic Education)
• “How can evidence use be strengthened by applying a systems approach - different initiatives and approaches, including education evidence labs” (co-presented with representatives from the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP), BE2 Secretariat and GEEAP Secretariat, Dubai Cares, Building Evidence in Education, and UNICEF Innocenti)
• "How Embedded Evidence Labs in education are promoting the use of data and evidence?" (IPA presentation)

To learn more about the impact of Embedded Labs, read this blog post on how Labs support use of evidence, and this blog post on how labs institutionalize evidence in policymaking.

To learn more about the UKFIET Conference, visit their website here.

Juan (third from the left) with fellow panelists in a UKFIET conference session. © 2025 What Works Global Hub for Education (WWHGE)