Learning

Reading, the bedrock of literacy, is the foundational skill necessary for all academic progress. Designing high-quality primary grade reading programs is essential to ensuring a pipeline of students who remain in school, achieve educational success, and contribute to economic growth.

We recently spoke with Tamara Jacques, an Education Program Advisor in Haiti, about the challenges that Haiti faces at the governmental level as well as within their education system.

Exciting new approaches for how we measure our efforts, track progress, and apply evidence and learning in the Education sector are on the horizon. This year's gathering of Education specialists at CIES showcased promising trends in this area.

In 2010, Kenya faced a severe learning challenge. While nationally education received significant funding (23.7 percent of the government expenditure), the majority of funds went to salaries.

The following retrospective focuses on systems strengthening initiatives that exist across global organizations, within sectors at USAID, and then more specifically in education programs in Africa.

A recent report by the Inter-American Dialogue shows that education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the past 2 decades has been, in many ways, a success story. Since the turn of the century, major efforts by donors, governments, and civil society have drawn millions of children to school across all levels, countries, and socioeconomic groups.

Along with 5 tips for G@G implementation, earn how USAID works to best implement G2G activities, lessons learned, and what the key considerations in G2G implementation are.

Promoting positive and sustained change is most effective when it is locally owned and locally led, which means that all facets of education program design and implementation should be done in collaboration with system actors and stakeholders.