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Mobile Learning Lab: Offline AI-Curated Content for Out-of-School Girls in Rural Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone · Kabala · See the Sierra Leone profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 58% 47/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

A solar-powered Mobile Learning Lab brings offline, adaptively-sequenced digital lessons (KA Lite / Kolibri platform) to 640 out-of-school adolescent girls across 30 accelerated-learning centres in rural Koinadugu and Falaba, Sierra Leone.

640
Out-of-school girls served
86 %
Girls returning to learning centre after pilot start
85 %
Reported math score increase
Mobile Learning Lab: Offline AI-Curated Content for Out-of-School Girls in Rural Sierra Leone

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
CAUSE Canada / 60 Million Girls Foundation
Period
2016-present
Keywords
NGO, non-formal education, girls' education, offline learning

Context

CAUSE Canada operates a solar-powered Mobile Learning Lab bringing offline adaptive-learning tablets (KA Lite/Kolibri) to 30 accelerated-learning centres for 640 out-of-school adolescent girls in rural Sierra Leone, an area with almost no grid electricity or internet.

Results

CAUSE Canada's own monitoring found 86% of girls kept returning to their learning centre after the 2016 pilot began; a separate Learning Equality impact report attributes an 85% increase in math scores and 63% increase in literacy scores after about 120 hours of use — but both figures come from the implementing and platform organisations rather than an independent evaluation, and report different metrics from what appear to be different programme phases.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
CAUSE Canada field staff

Conditions for success

  • Solar power and fully offline content (KA Lite/Kolibri) removing dependence on grid electricity or internet

Common failure modes

  • Remains small-scale (30 centres, one country) and donor-dependent with no government co-financing or national scale-up pathway yet

Commonly funded by

Philanthropic / foundation funding

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