Compendium of Standard PIRS for Education Programming

Standard foreign assistance indicators are a type of performance indicator to facilitate portfolio-level reporting. They are useful for this purpose because they are representative of USAID’s portfolio as a whole, and because definitions are consistent and known. The Center for Education and other Washington Bureaus have defined standard indicators to collect data from Missions and other Operating Units (OUs) using common methods and definitions. This allows us to aggregate and compare results from education programming across OUs. 

This compendium provides an index to the standard indicators with links to the full text of each Performance Indicator Reference Sheet (PIRS). PIRS contain detailed information about how to measure each indicator and should be reviewed comprehensively before reporting against an indicator.