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Learning Links tutor and students working in Liberia
Information and Communication Technology

Using a Gig Economy Model to Develop a Paraprofessional Teaching Force in Rural Liberia

Learning Links, a new, innovative USAID pilot program uses a gig economy model to improve education and employment outcomes in the Liberia.
June 4, 2019
A student at the USAID Soma Umenye project.
Reading & Literacy

Rwanda Pilots an Improved Benchmarking Method

USAID and its partners have used different methods to set performance benchmarks for primary school students over the years, with the vast majority of benchmarking exercises relying on student reading assessment data to identify proficiency levels.
July 9, 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.
Bangladesh
Systems Strengthening
October 19, 2018

The Mother of All Evaluations: Learning from 69 Education-Sector Evaluations

Evaluating programs can help us learn from them and design better ones; recently the Office of Education took this spirit farther and evaluated its evaluations.
Rwanda student
Gender and Girls Education
October 15, 2018

Good Practice in Inclusive Education: Lessons from Rwanda

In Rwanda, USAID-funded projects like Soma Umenye, Mureke Dusome, and Huguka Dukore promote gender equality in education, while working to improve reading and learning outcomes and developing young people’s work readiness skills.
Morocco
Youth Workforce Development
October 11, 2018

Better Gender and Youth Employment: Insights from the Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit

Global youth unemployment has hit women especially hard; young women are disproportionately unemployed, underemployed, and impoverished worldwide.
Saffa Girls School, West Bank
Gender and Girls Education
September 1, 2018

10 Reasons to Integrate Gender into Education Programming

Over the past decade, the global agenda on education and gender has shifted from a narrow focus on girls’ education to a broader goal of achieving gender equality and mainstreaming interventions to reduce inequities through education programming.
Arsi Zone, Oromia Region
Gender and Girls Education
September 1, 2018

Defining Gender

Gender-responsive education programs that promote increased access to, and completion of, quality education for both girls and boys yield multiplier effects. But what, exactly, do we mean when we talk about “gender?”

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