The Africa Regional Education Systems Resilience Observatory (ARESRO) Project is an initiative aimed at strengthening the resilience of education systems in Ghana and across West Africa. Spearheaded by the Legon Centre for Education Research and Policy (LECERP), the project seeks to generate robust evidence, engage key stakeholders, and translate research findings into practical strategies that promote sustainable and shock-responsive education systems.

The project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) under the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE-KIX) programme. It is implemented in partnership with the Resilience Africa Network (RAN) at Makerere University, Uganda; IDRC; GPE-KIX; Dalhousie University and the Link Community Development. It covers five countries: Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

The vision of ARESRO is to build an education ecosystem in Africa’s GPE partner countries that is optimally aware of shocks, stressors, vulnerability factors, and critical capacities affecting their resilience to adversity currently and in the future and harnesses this awareness to develop mitigation and adaptation plans to address current and future risks of different magnitudes.

The project is guided by three core objectives:

1. To gain a comprehensive understanding of the current state of education system resilience.

2. To examine how future shocks, stressors, vulnerabilities, and resilience capacities (absorptive, adaptive, and transformative) may affect education systems and outcomes.

3. To identify and support strategic planning and effective interventions that strengthen resilience to future risks and challenges.