Promoting Equality in African Schools

Name

Promoting Equality in African Schools

Legal name

Promoting Equality in African Schools

Website

https://peas.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secondary Education Services (Non-Profit)

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (611110), Educational Services (61), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Education Access & Quality (International Development) (BPAGABAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Basic Education Access & Quality (Primary/Secondary) (BPADAKAA), Education Partnerships for Equity, Inclusion & Gender (EDADALAF)

Keywords

• Secondary education services
• School network operations
• School improvement programmes
• Gender-inclusive education
• Education system strengthening

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Donations and Philanthropic Funding: PEAS is a registered charity (No. 1126550) that raises funds from individuals, philanthropists, foundations, and corporate partners. The organization relies on donations to build and operate schools and fund educational programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

PEAS delivers secondary education to underprivileged children in sub-Saharan Africa by directly operating a network of 46 schools (8 primary and 38 secondary) across Uganda and Zambia and by partnering with ministries of education in Uganda, Zambia, and Ghana to extend its school-improvement approaches into 470 partner schools. Its TIEEZ School Improvement Model provides the systematic five-phase methodology used across all schools, with explicit emphasis on gender inclusion, safeguarding, and locally rooted delivery (98% African staff, majority-African and majority-female Global Board).

Product overview

PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) is an education charity that operates as a unified portfolio of school-based services rather than a technology platform. The core offering consists of the PEAS Network Schools (8 primary and 38 secondary schools serving over 250,000 students in Uganda and Zambia) combined with the Government School Partnership Programme that extends PEAS's school improvement methodologies to partner schools (currently 470 partner schools across Uganda, Zambia, and Ghana). The TIEEZ School Improvement Model provides the systematic five-phase approach used across all schools, while gender-inclusive education programming represents a specialised module focused on improving outcomes for girls. All components are designed and delivered by Africans with 16+ years of expertise in running quality schools in low-resource rural contexts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PEAS Network Schools A directly operated network of 8 primary schools and 38 secondary schools in Uganda and Zambia delivering quality secondary education to over 250,000 young people annually, with explicit focus on students from poorer households, girls, and learners with special educational needs.
• Government School Partnership Programme A system-strengthening partnership with ministries of education in Uganda, Zambia, and Ghana that adapts PEAS's school-improvement approaches into government schools, currently reaching 470 partner schools educating around a quarter of a million students.
• TIEEZ School Improvement Model A five-phase school improvement methodology: innovate and test in PEAS schools, collaboratively adapt and codify with government, test and embed in government schools, transition to local ownership, and enable government-led delivery at national scale. It is the systematic framework applied across both PEAS own schools and partner government schools.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 250,000 young people supported annually
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

Scale indicators15 records

Direct peers

• Educate!: Educate! partners with the Ugandan government to embed skills-and-entrepreneurship training into secondary schools, reaching a large share of Ugandan secondary students. Closely comparable direct partnership model in PEAS's largest country.
• Camfed: Camfed (Campaign for Female Education) operates across multiple Sub-Saharan African countries supporting girls' secondary education and post-school transition, with a comparable donor-funded model and a similar focus on girls from poorer households. Highly comparable mission and operational geography.
• Ubuntu Education Fund: Ubuntu Education Fund supports education for disadvantaged youth in Southern Africa with a focus on holistic support through secondary school. Comparable mission around poverty alleviation via secondary education access.
• Room to Read: Room to Read runs literacy and girls' education programs across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia with a portfolio model combining direct school support and government system strengthening. Comparable scale, funding base, and dual direct/partner model.
• Rising Academies: Rising Academies operates a network of low-cost private secondary schools and government partnerships across Sub-Saharan Africa, with strong evidence-based learning outcomes. Closely analogous operating model in the same target geographies.

Emerging players

• Opportunity International Education: Opportunity International's education arm focuses on low-cost private schools across Africa, with a complementary financing angle for school owners. Adjacent model targeting similar low-income communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Omega Schools Foundation: Omega Schools operates a network of low-fee private schools in Ghana with a tech-enabled learning model. Comparable low-cost secondary model in one of PEAS's three countries, with a differentiated technology angle.
• African Leadership Academy: African Leadership Academy runs a pan-African secondary and pre-university program focused on developing future African leaders. Comparable beneficiary profile and donor-supported model, though operating at a much smaller scale.

Broad incumbents

• GEMS Education: GEMS Education is one of the world's largest K-12 private school operators with a presence across multiple emerging markets. Comparable school-network operating model but at vastly larger scale and a for-profit orientation.
• BRAC Education Programme: BRAC operates one of the largest non-governmental education systems globally, including secondary schools and government partnerships across multiple African countries. Much broader geographic scope, but directly comparable operating model and beneficiary base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PEASchools
• Facebookfacebook.com/aboutpeas

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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