Learning

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
EDC - Kenya
Education in Crisis and Conflict
May 10, 2016

Adaptive Management

Many practitioners struggle with program design when conflict is present. Recent reports from the field provide insights on adaptive management and feedback loops, the core of USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting approach.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
March 29, 2016

Strengthening the Safety Net

Learn about ECCN’s recent study in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A unique opportunity exists there to create more responsive alternative education for the 3.5 million young people outside of the formal system.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
January 26, 2016

Adaptive Management: In the Loop

Is your education project one that is threatened by conflict, has militias, gangs, or bullies nearby, or runs from security forces rather than asking them for help? These situations, in the words of Ben Ramalingam, present “wicked problems.”