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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
Higher Education MBA Graduation Students Posing for Picture
Higher Education
November 16, 2023

USAID Egypt’s Local Scholarship Program Is Empowering the Next Generation of Women Leaders

Higher education is essential for promoting the exchange of knowledge and innovation, and equipping youth with the 21st-century skills necessary to succeed in global labor markets
Students in Rwanda playing at school with lettered blocks that are also helping them learn to spell
Education Finance
August 4, 2023

3 Ways USAID is Partnering with the Private Sector to Advance Education

Investments in education serve as a foundation and driver for a country’s broader economic and social development.
The Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain Africa
Higher Education
July 25, 2022

Lessons Learned: Building and Tapping into Alumni Networks in Low- and Middle-Income Country Higher Education Institutions

The first survey provided valuable insights to the CARISCA project team and KNUST administrators.
Charles Makamo, a participant of the Innovation Scholars Program, and his design team test their innovation at Standard Bank in Lilongwe, Malawi with end-users.
Higher Education
February 11, 2021

The Resilience of Higher Education Institutions During COVID-19: Lessons from Malawi, Philippines, and Senegal

Higher education institutions must continually adapt to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These three case studies show how three universities served as central actors in crisis response and in locally-led development.
The Strengthening Higher Education Access in Malawi (SHEAMA) activity, supported by USAID, focuses on increasing Malawi’s skilled and employable workforce – especially rural adolescent girls and young women and vulnerable young men. In response to COVID-19, SHEAM formed a Distance Learning Taskforce. The taskforce is composed of faculty from across the 5 public universities and is focusing on ensuring continuity of learning in universities through distance learning amidst the pandemic.
Higher Education
November 10, 2020

Higher Education’s Response to COVID-19

The landscape map identifies the actions taken by higher education systems and higher education institutions in select USAID partner countries to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on students, institutions, communities, and countries.
Opening of Can Tho University Maker Innovation Space
Higher Education
October 27, 2020

A Program Framework for Higher Education

USAID has developed the Higher Education Program Framework. The framework is one of several new HE resources being released by the Center for Education to inform USAID higher education program design, implementation, and strategic planning. 
The ASEAN-U.S. Science & Technology Fellowship program
Higher Education
November 14, 2019

USAID’s Higher Education Legacy: A Retrospective

What did the early years of the Agency’s HE portfolio look like? Higher Education: A Retrospective answers these questions and more. This report explores the Agency’s HE priorities and key activities during each decade from the 1960s to 2000s. 
Men performing survey practicals on campus
Higher Education
November 14, 2019

How USAID’s Higher Education Programming Has Evolved

A recent retrospective prepared by interns in the Center for Education provides an in-depth look at the history of the Agency’s HE programming. Higher Education: A Retrospective takes the reader through the Agency’s HE engagement decade by decade.