Learning

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

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Children outside classrooms of a school in Honduras.
Systems Strengthening

Resource Roundup: Seven Ways to Strengthen Systems for Literacy Outcomes

USAID’s vision is a world where partner country education systems enable all children and youth to acquire the education and skills needed to be productive members of society.
September 19, 2023
CATALYZE EduFinance South Africa (Kaizenvest / GROW Educare Centres)
Reading & Literacy

Four Ways CATALYZE Improves Learning Outcomes and Expands Access to Quality Basic Education through Innovative Blended Finance Solutions

Despite significant increases in literacy rates since the first International Literacy Day in 1967, children from vulnerable and marginalized families continue to demonstrate significantly lower literacy rates.
October 12, 2023
A teacher and student sit at a table looking over worksheets.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
December 7, 2023

Connecting Social and Emotional Learning to Foundational Skills: Four Lessons from Tajikistan

Researchers from the USAID Learn Together Activity explored the link between social and emotional learning (SEL) and foundational skills in a conflict-affected setting. Here are key takeaways they shared with the ECCN.
A group of smiling children giving their thumbs up stand in a line smiling outside in a Peru village.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
December 7, 2023

Exploring Three Resources in the PSS-SEL Toolbox

Learn about three useful resources and what else you’ll find in the Psychosocial Support and Social and Emotional Learning Toolbox from the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies.
Lessons Learned from a Decade of Early Grade Reading Programs
Reading & Literacy
February 16, 2023

Lessons Learned from a Decade of Early Grade Reading Programs

The Ten Years of Early Grade Reading Programming: A Retrospective report provides an unique opportunity to reflect on the progress made and the challenges that remain in USAID’s efforts to contribute to the goal that ALL children can read.
Syrian Teacher Teaching Children to Read in Jordan
Disability Inclusive Education
May 10, 2022

What We’re Learning in Social and Emotional Learning

This series is intended for Education Officers in USAID partner countries and implementing partners who are designing and managing new activities, evaluations, and/or research efforts.
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Systems Strengthening
August 19, 2021

Making the Case for Pre-Primary Education

Pre-primary education includes any group-based, organized instruction and can be school- or community-based.
Pre-Primary
Systems Strengthening
August 19, 2021

How to Develop High-Quality Pre-Primary Programs

To support the development and implementation of high-quality pre-primary programming, USAID has created a new resource to systematically plan for new or adapted programming.
Photo: Non-formal RISE preschool students listen to a lesson on the radio.
Information and Communication Technology
July 1, 2020

6 Important Lessons Can Be Learned From Zanzibar’s Distance Learning Efforts

As education actors scramble during and post COVID-19 to reimagine teaching and learning beyond the classroom, here are six important lessons we can learn from Zanzibar’s distance learning efforts.
Photo: Headmaster Sitalal Tamang, center, plays educational games with students in the schoolyard.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
January 31, 2020

Partnering to Protect Nepali Students’ Right to Education

Temporary classrooms built after the 2015 earthquake by USAID and UNICEF provide safe environments for young Nepali minds to learn.