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Youth Workforce Development

What We’re Learning in Positive Youth Development

This blog discusses what we’re learning in positive youth development. USAID’s Positive Youth Development Learning Agenda should be used as a guiding source for this evaluation.
April 4, 2022
IREX March Walking the Talk
Youth Workforce Development

Walking the Talk: Findings and Practices to Embrace in Fostering Youth Ownership of Research & Knowledge Production

The desk review found that youth are becoming increasingly relevant actors in research and knowledge production across sectors.
April 12, 2022
Information and Communication Technology
May 16, 2022

CIES 2022: Spotlight on Distance Learning

The 2022 Comparative & International Education Society Conference brought together researchers, analysts, practitioners, and students in the field of international education to explore a wide range of educational issues.
Lebanon
Education in Crisis and Conflict
November 5, 2021

Resilience in Return to Learning

Each of the case studies examines, describes, and analyzes the specific localized processes and decision-making of education system stakeholders from March 2020 to April 2021.
The Asia Foundation
Information and Communication Technology
September 2, 2021

How ACR GCD Innovators Using EdTech Adjusted to COVID-19 — and What Lies Ahead

Five winners of All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development awards share how their literacy work continues during the pandemic.
Cambodia
Reading & Literacy
August 23, 2021

Navigating Monitoring and Evaluation of Distance Learning Programs

Determining reach and engagement is critical before outcomes can be assessed. Additionally, collecting contextual and demographic data is critical to understanding the distance learning context and reach, engagement, and outcome measures.
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.
Children start their day by singing nursery rhymes and songs in post-earthquake Nepal. Photo By Kashish Das Shrestha for USAID.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
December 15, 2020

USAID’s Top 10 Education Highlights in 2020

Education content in 2020 focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected students across the world. Here are the top resources, blogs, and events USAID released this past year.
eKitabu’s signed Digital Story Time included in Kenya Ministry of Education’s distance learning program.
Disability Inclusive Education
September 11, 2020

Pivoting in a Pandemic: eKitabu Provides Sign Language Video Content For Students in Kenya

After Kenya closed schools in response to the pandemic, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development requested that eKitabu support students who are deaf by developing sign language videos that support early grade literacy for deaf children.
Woman sits on bed writing in book listening to radio
Reading & Literacy
August 11, 2020

Delivering Distance Learning in Emergencies

Distance learning is teaching and learning where educators and learners are in different physical spaces.