Kivu Initiatives for Education supports partners and clients on new knowledge and skills curriculum redesign, implementation, and evaluation beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic.

A broad range of sources agree that 21^st century skills refer as a set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and character traits that are expected by teachers, education systems, parents, and employers- in particular, to be foundational to success in the current globalized world, in changing careers, and technology driven workplaces.

Kivu Initiatives for Education is a bridge connecting education providers, students, and employers to ensure curricula design, teaching, learning, and evaluation strategies promote lifelong learning, digital skills and twenty first skills while strengthening their partnerships. Kivu Initiatives for Education focuses on:

-          Advocating for the creation of a 21st Century Skills unit within the Ministries of Education to guide national efforts to develop a national framework for 21st Century Learning, teaching, and curriculum development and evaluation, teacher professional development policies at all the education levels.

-          Advocating for a partnership with the private sector to set a 21st century skills agenda and plans to implement 21st century learning for the country. This includes convening with business and education leaders to agree on goals for acquiring the 21st century skills that are essential to every community.

-          Support the alignment of preschool, primary, secondary and adult education, after-school and youth development, workforce development and training, and teacher education programs around the 21st century skills that matter for global competitiveness.

-          Develop the capacity of local administrators and school leadership teams to support the implementation of 21st century skills strategies.

-          Embed 21st century skills into teacher preparation and professional development

-          Offer expertise for the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) teaching, learning and assessment as foundational skills