Shaping the Future of Learning
At MESAA 2040, we transform education systems to be agile, equitable, and future-ready. Through innovation, co-creation, and strategic partnerships, we empower educators, policymakers, and institutions to build learning environments that thrive in a rapidly evolving world.
Our Services
What We Do
At MESAA2040, we offer a range of services designed to transform education systems across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. From policy innovation to AI integration, our work helps institutions build future-ready, equitable, and high-performing learning environments.
Building Resilient Education Systems
The MESAA region is a graveyard of strategic plans and policies that have had little or no impact. Either the design was not the right fit or the ability to execute was weak. Our in-depth systems diagnostic assesses national education system alignment and coherence, pinpoints gaps, and reveals untapped opportunities to boost student performance, teaching quality, systems efficiency, and innovation. The consistent and applied use of education data to make decisions is often a barrier to systems improvement, Our approach is to work intensively to strengthen data collection methods, data governance, data analysis, and importantly, the use of data at school levels to improve student learning.
From Plans to Performance
We break the cycle of ineffective strategies by diagnosing misalignment, execution gaps, and design flaws in education systems across MESAA.
System Diagnostics
Our in-depth analysis uncovers opportunities to improve student outcomes, teacher quality, and overall system innovation.
Strengthening Data Systems
We enhance data collection, governance, and analytics to support smart decisions at all levels of the education system..
Data-Driven School Improvement
Empowering schools to use data effectively for real-time insights and continuous learning improvement.
Research, Strategy, and Policy Innovation
Why It Matters
Across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, education reforms often stall because they rely on outdated policy frameworks, weak evidence, and top-down strategies disconnected from system realities. To design durable, future-ready policies, we must innovate how research is generated, used, and embedded in education systems.
MESAA2040’s Research, Strategy, and Policy Innovation practice supports countries and institutions to move beyond reactive policymaking toward proactive, data-driven, and iterative policy development that responds to the complex demands of today’s learners and economies.
Our Approach: Future-Focused, Evidence-Rich, Locally Grounded
We combine traditional policy expertise with behavioral science, systems thinking, futures methodologies, and AI-powered research tools to create policies that are practical, forward-looking, and contextually relevant.
Behaviorally Informed Policy Design
Apply behavioral insights and “nudge” strategies to drive policy adoption, motivate students, engage parents, and shift teacher behaviors.
Futures and Foresight Methods
Anticipate future shifts in AI, labor, climate, and demographics through horizon scanning and scenario planning with key stakeholders.
Living Evidence and Real-Time Data Use
Shift from static reports to dynamic, real-time data systems and knowledge platforms for continuous policy improvement.
Embedded Systems Diagnostics and Strategy Reviews
Map systems deeply to identify structural gaps, political economy barriers, and key bottlenecks.
University Strategy, Performance, and Optimisation
Nearly all universities think that they are unique. They all believe they should be ranked higher and win many awards. However, very few universities can answer with any conviction what their stakeholders think of them, provide data to back up their claims or provide any evidence of tangible progress against their strategic plans. Most universities are facing financial pressures and budget constraints. Times are changing..
Through an evidence-based institutional assessment, we can assess a university’s quality in various dimensions. The assessment will provide insights into the university’s strengths and weaknesses, enabling targeted improvements. The assessment focuses on the following key aspects
- Governance
- Teaching, learning and assessment
- Research and innovation
- Employability and employer partnerships
- Organizational capability
- Financial sustainability
Campus utilization
- student experience,
- alumni engagement
- Marketing strategy and social media impact
- International and local partnerships
- International faculty and student recruitment
The practical recommendations will enable universities to develop a sustainable and realistic approach to improving and measuring their quality of provision, finances, rankings, and reputation. Through creating a strong use of data culture, you can benchmark your university against others to provide regional and best-in-class comparisons and design impactful interventions.
Technology and AI integration
Engaging with AI or not is no longer a choice
Many countries have adopted AI strategies or approaches to digital transformation, which are slowly flowing through to education systems, schools, and universities. However, 88% of transformation projects fail. $2.3 trillion has been wasted on unsuccessful digital transformation efforts.
Why? Systems are built to preserve the status quo. Technical debt, legacy thinking, and lack of capacity within the teaching workforce suffocate radical change before it even begins. Artificial intelligence now means that many approaches are entirely outdated.
Equity
AI systems should be designed and implemented with equity and inclusion in mind, ensuring that they do not exacerbate existing inequalities or create new ones.
Data privacy
AI systems must respect and protect the data privacy and security of students and educators and follow ethical and legal standards and norms.
Ethics
AI systems for education must adhere to ethical principles and values—such as fairness, justice, dignity, and human rights—in their development and deployment.
Evidence and accuracy.
AI solutions must be evaluated and validated for their quality, and their accuracy and reliability must be assured for different contexts, languages, and domains.
Impact
AI solutions should be monitored and measured for their impact on educational outcomes, such as learning gains.
Leading AI MEA
Our Solution to support Ministries, schools and Universities
Education for Sustainable Development
The role of education in sustainable development within the MENASAA region, given the context of climate change, social inequalities, displacement, refugees, war, and economic development, can be considered critical. Education is an effective long-term strategy to achieve social transformation, increase environmental awareness, and facilitate economic transition.
We work with governments and institutions to empower teachers and learners from early grades to higher education to take individual and joint action to transform society and care for the planet. We achieve this through advancing policy, transforming learning approaches, developing connected curriculums, building capacities of educators, empowering and mobilizing youth, and catalyzing partnerships at local levels.
Ed Tommorrows workforce, Tomorrows solutions
Reskill, Upskill, and Unlearn is the mantra for nations as they face the chronic challenges of a young population, a shifting labor market, and workforces that will be reconfigured through technology adoption,
Too much vocational education is poorly executed. career advice is outdated, Courses are not aligned with labor market needs, qualifications have little value, and employers are not integrated into the system as they should be. the outcomes of vocational training have a poor ROI and importantly a negative public It is surely time for governments, employers, and providers to reimagine how training is designed and delivered and how students are assessed,
As technology changes the way we work and what employers need from their employees it is time for the education sector to play an increasing role in workforce development and to become real partners with employers, to forge a new type of collaboration that is based on trust, depth, and interoperability.
Our Approach is based on creating a future facing integrated approcah to skill and personal growth