Madristi — Lebanon's AI-Curated National Learning Platform Reaches 400,000 Students

Lebanon's public education system has faced sustained strain from economic collapse, currency devaluation and repeated disruptions to schooling. In response, UNICEF and Lebanon's Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE), working with the Centre for Educational Research and Development (CRDP), localized UNICEF's global Learning Passport platform as Madristi, a free curriculum-aligned learning platform for KG to Grade 12.

Madristi aims to give public-school students continued access to curriculum-aligned digital content — including AI-curated adaptation for learners with different abilities and needs — despite connectivity and infrastructure gaps, and to remove cost as a barrier to access.

Delivered with support from Microsoft and the UN International Computing Centre, the platform uses AI to curate and adapt content. Offline Madristi servers are being deployed in around 200 low-connectivity public schools, the platform has been zero-rated by agreement with the Ministry of Telecommunications, and UNICEF/CERD ran national teacher capacity-building (Teams webinars, virtual classrooms, flipped learning, safe learning in emergencies) reaching about 10,000 teachers.

UNICEF reports the platform now reaches an estimated 400,000 public-school students and 50,000 teachers. No independent, peer-reviewed evaluation of learning-outcome impact has been published; the available evidence is reach and process data self-reported by the implementing partners, and weak internet connectivity remains the main obstacle to full uptake in parts of the country.