Learning

Read guidance, learning summaries, evidence trends, and country reflections from USAID and its partners.

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Charles Makamo, a participant of the Innovation Scholars Program, and his design team test their innovation at Standard Bank in Lilongwe, Malawi with end-users.
Higher Education

The Resilience of Higher Education Institutions During COVID-19: Lessons from Malawi, Philippines, and Senegal

Higher education institutions must continually adapt to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These three case studies show how three universities served as central actors in crisis response and in locally-led development.
February 11, 2021
Manija practices reading in Braille with her teacher Roziya during a home visit.
Disability Inclusive Education

Accessible to All: Creating Learning Materials for Children with Disabilities in Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tajikistan

Here are some examples from Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tajikistan that show how good practices in the provision of accessible learning materials are being put into practice during COVID-19.
December 15, 2020
Manija practices reading in Braille with her teacher Roziya during a home visit.
Disability Inclusive Education
December 15, 2020

Accessible to All: Creating Learning Materials for Children with Disabilities in Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tajikistan

Here are some examples from Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tajikistan that show how good practices in the provision of accessible learning materials are being put into practice during COVID-19.
Photo: Rashid Ngala reads a story from the TUSOME textbooks.
Disability Inclusive Education
March 19, 2020

Course Correction Proves Essential to Scaling up Kenya’s Literacy Program

In 2010, less than ten percent of Kenya’s primary school-aged children were reading at the national level benchmarks. Ten years later, largely due to the success of the Tusome program, nearly 66 percent of grade two students now read at grade level.
Bangladesh
Systems Strengthening
October 19, 2018

The Mother of All Evaluations: Learning from 69 Education-Sector Evaluations

Evaluating programs can help us learn from them and design better ones; recently the Office of Education took this spirit farther and evaluated its evaluations.