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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
Young children gather around a book to read outside in a village in Cambodia.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
July 31, 2022

Healing the wounds of forced displacement: The power of education

Check out this blog post from ACCESS at the University of Auckland. Researchers make a compelling case for involving young people in the decisions affecting their lives and education.
Young girls and boys in a classroom in Southern Africa listen and watch attentively during a literacy lesson.
Gender and Education
July 26, 2022

Working to advance gender equity and equality in education in conflict and crisis

The Center for Education at USAID is working to advance the gender equity and equality commitments by the Biden-Harris Administration and Administrator Power.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
January 7, 2021

Reimagining Girls’ Education during COVID-19: Lessons from Adapting Programs and Measures

Authors share insights on how to ensure girls are supported, continue their education, and develop the life skills they need for long-term success during COVID-19.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
December 21, 2020

A Systems-focused Change that Made a Difference: Learning Coaches in Sierra Leone

In the years following the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone emerged as one of the most challenging educational contexts on Earth.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
December 15, 2020

Reading Loss During COVID-19: Early Data

Across the globe, as coronavirus cases surge and schools in many countries are either fully or partially closed, access to books is more inequitable than ever.
Students from USAID’s Prioritizing Reform, Innovation, Opportunities for Reaching Indonesia’s Teacher, Administrators & Students (PRIORITAS) project
Education in Crisis and Conflict
November 20, 2020

Reigniting Learning: What Works to Help Learners Catch-up During Crises

USAID’s new evidence review, Reigniting Learning: Strategies for Accelerating Learning Post-Crisis, identifies evidence-based strategies to adapt the curriculum, modify instructional time, and refine pedagogy to accelerate learning.
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: Students from the Diego Luis Cordoba School in the municipality of Acandi, Department of Choco in Colombia.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
August 25, 2020

Pivoting in a Pandemic: Adapting the Rapid Education and Risk Analysis in Colombia

In March 2020 DevTech began planning to conduct a RERA in urban and peri-urban school communities receiving migrant Venezuelans. The Government of Colombia needed RERA data to implement flexible and effective models of education.