Learning

Before we move into 2020, we wanted to take a look back at what education looked like in 2019.

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. 

A recent retrospective prepared by interns in the Office of 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.

This blog is the first in a series of six where we break down the Higher Education Landscape Analysis for you.

In this blog, second in a series of six, we apply a regional lens to the HELA to take stock of USAID’s HE engagement across the Agency’s regional bureaus. 

USAID commissioned the Higher Education Landscape Analysis (HELA) to take stock of the depth of its HE programming across sectors and regions. The HELA found that during fiscal years 2014-2018, USAID implemented five primary activity types.

Let’s look at six ways USAID’s Higher Education programming in the timeframe of the Higher Education Landscape Analysis was inclusive of marginalized or vulnerable populations.
 

Here are five recommendations the Higher Education Landscape Analysis team made to USAID taking into account the lessons learned, challenges, and gaps the review identified.