Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) 22-26 March 2025

Our longstanding, grassroots approach to serve and advocate for the world’s most vulnerable children and their communities closely aligns with the CIES 2025 Conference Theme — Envisioning Education in a Digital Society.

In March 2025, World Vision education experts will join other industry leaders and global education stakeholders at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2025 Conference in Chicago. Together, we will work to better understand and address educational issues, trends, and policies impacting children, families, and communities worldwide.  

During the five-day conference, World Vision is featured in 4 sessions where our experts will share about our evidence-based education programmes, innovations, latest research with our partners, and ways we continually learn, grow, and adapt to ensure quality and impactful programming. Our sessions highlight topics such as:  

• Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to improve literacy in school and community settings: lessons learned from leveraging EdTech in Africa and Asia 
• Unlocking Literacy: The Power of Book Corners and Libraries in Transforming Reading Culture   
• Leadership for a Brave New World, PART 2: Fostering Collective Action for Education Reform in Zambia and the Dominican Republic
• Harnessing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improving equity in teacher professional learning systems  

World Vision's Global Education Commitment is to:

• Champion holistic learning for children from birth through adolescence.
• Strengthen education systems to ensure every child, especially the most marginalized, gains foundational learning and skills for life. 
• Bridge the humanitarian-development nexus, delivering quality education where it's needed most -- from crisis response to sustainable
  development.

Did you know in FY 2024

• 6,909,540 Children and Caregivers were supported through education programmes - 4,855,385 were children and 2 million were caregivers
• 207,811 Parents and Community Facilitators Trained - 163,617 through World Vision's  Unlock Literacy, 30,580 through World Vision's Learning Roots Programme
• 1,345,893 Quality Programmes reached in 33 countries  - 290,404 were 3-6 year olds who attended ECD Centres across the world
• 83% of 408,503 completed Adolescent Life Skill curriculum in 33 Field Offices