The Education in Crisis (EiC) Strategic Plan 2025 – 2029 outlines a comprehensive, five-year roadmap to
address the persistent and evolving education crisis across Africa, particularly in conflict-affected and
marginalized regions. It focuses on delivering impactful, inclusive, and sustainable education solutions
to the millions of out-of-school children, especially boys and girls, displaced populations, children with
disabilities and those living in areas with fragile infrastructure and emergencies. EiC’s vision is aligned
with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), which aims to ensure inclusive and equitable
quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030.
Anchored in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and committed to both SDG4 and SDG5, working
to ensure inclusive, equitable, and quality education for all children (SDG4) while achieving gender
equality and empowering all women and girls (SDG5);
Education in Crisis (EiC) is a two-time award-winning NGO on the African continent recognized in 2022 by
the Africans Rising and 2023 at African Youth SDGs Summit in Lusaka, Zambia dedicated to ending the
global education crisis as its core mandate. Founded in 2019, EiC was first registered as a national NGO in
South Kordofan State, Sudan on November 09, 2020 by SRRA and in 2022, the Founder and Executive
Director, George Omer Nalo relocated its main office to Arusha, Tanzania with registration process that
was started immediately until February 2023 when it was officially registered to operate in Tanzania’s
mainland as a national NGO. EiC works currently in 5 African countries and 2 regions; East and North
Africa in some of the MOST remote places on earth, to reach the children and young people left furthest
behind and in greatest need of accessing quality education as their fundamental human right as a longterm
sustainable help for a better human capital development in Africa with the right support behind.
Launched in 2020, the Foundational Scholars Program was EiC’s flagship program that started with 2 outof-
school girls in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan state, Sudan and expanded to over 200 in 5
countries today with the generous contributions from the foundational donors. Developed to advance our
mission in making accessible quality education for all, EiC’s Strategic Plan 2025 – 2029 sets out ambitious
goals including mobilizing 1 Million Africans to commit $1 each to scale up education programs for
children and youth left furthest behind in achieving their dreams through quality education.
The plan describes how EiC will build on its proven model, while catalyzing new solutions in response to
the growing needs in education as a humanitarian intervention in Africa. The plan embodies the ‘Left
Behind, Right Behind’ – emphasizing both the challenges faced by marginalized groups and the
collective commitment to support and uplift them through facilitating strengthened collaboration of a
wide range of stakeholders to achieve collective education outcomes of every child everywhere.
The plan sets out EiC’s ambitious results for children and youth, and articulates the strategic objectives,
programmatic priorities and MEL approach to deliver on that ambition. It also provides an overview of
EiC’s core functions and investment focused areas, and two strategic accompanying documents; the
Theory of Change and Results Framework.
