Going to Scale: The Early Grade Reading Program in Egypt
2008 - 2012
This case study has been commissioned by USAID/Washington’s Middle East Bureau through the Data for Education Programming in Asia and the Middle East (DEP-ASIA/ME) contract to help decision-makers and program managers understand how the Egypt Early Grade Reading Program (EGRP) unfolded between 2008 and 2012 and the context within which it operated. The study is not an evaluation – that has been done elsewhere. Instead it is designed to help partners better understand what took place and why, and, with this, be better able to design and implement similarly successful programs elsewhere. The study relied on document review and field work in Egypt over a two-week period and is divided into six sections as follows:
- Piloting Early Grade Reading Assessment and Interventions;
- EGRP Scale-up and Institutionalization;
- Evidence of Scale-Up Success;
- Factors Contributing to and Constraining Success;
- Lessons Learned; and
- Possible Future Directions.