This year, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) achieved noteworthy results toward its three key objectives:

• Generating high-quality, demand-driven knowledge;
• Mobilizing insights and evidence from applied research and learning exchanges; and
• Strengthening the capacity of knowledge producers and users in low- and middle income countries to scale innovations and improve the use of evidence in education planning, policy, and practice.

With many regions experiencing high numbers of out-of-school children, this annual report highlights how KIX is responding to this challenge in the feature theme “Scaling educational options for out-of-school children.”