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USAID LGBT Vision for Action
Gender and Education

Creating Space for PRIDE: LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Schools and Curricula

USAID is committed to learning from LGBTQI+ activists, technical experts, and other partners to meaningfully design and implement quality, equitable, and inclusive education from pre-primary to higher education and the workforce.
April 25, 2023
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Gender and Education

A Holistic Approach to Girls’ Education Leads to Better Learning Outcomes

At accelerated schooling centers, over 22,000 out-of-school girls learned the alphabet, and attained basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills over nine months before transitioning back to formal school.
May 15, 2023
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.
Photo: Kenneth Anwomea, a Basic 2 pupil of Tikobo No.1 Primary A, Jomoro District, Western Region, Ghana, being assisted by his mother, Ms. Elizabeth Ackah Armah
Education in Crisis and Conflict
November 4, 2020

Resilience and Self-reliance: Early Lessons from the Education Response to COVID-19

While data and information on new education channels is still becoming available, different strategies and outcomes used in two USAID-funded programs implemented by FHI 360 are also emerging: embedding resilience and self-reliance as winning strategies.   
Photo: Girls take exams in refurbished school
Education in Crisis and Conflict
September 17, 2020

Understanding Lebanon’s Deepening Education Crisis

The new Lebanon Education in Emergencies Data Snapshot documents the overall educational situation for refugees and factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic that bear on education provision in Lebanon.
Photo: Héctor Canto, the Honorable Vice Minister for Education in Guatemala, Opens the 2019 National Writing Conference
Reading & Literacy
January 8, 2020

Guatemala Hosts National Conversation on Writing Instruction Research

Writing well is not just a skill; it’s an art. This was the core theme of Guatemala’s first-ever National Writing Conference held from August 20-22, 2019.
Girls enjoying buddy reading time
Reading & Literacy
June 11, 2019

How a Partnership with Peace Corps Increased Education Outcomes

In 2010, USAID and the Peace Corps signed the Global Education Framework (GEF) agreement to further encourage collaboration between Peace Corps and USAID in implementing programs that advance host country educational goals.
The Puentes Project
Youth Workforce Development
November 16, 2018

Improving the Lives of Guatemalan Youth

In an effort to improve the quality of life for youth in the Western Highlands of Guatemala—as measured by employment, education, development assets and hopefulness indicators—USAID funded Puentes.
Bridges program participants.
Systems Strengthening
August 1, 2018

Successes and Challenges of Project Co-Creation in Guatemala

Learn how the mission's co-creation project design approach cultivated trusted relationships and established its convening power between and among the Agency and its implementing partners.