Learning

Read guidance, learning summaries, evidence trends, and country reflections from USAID and its partners.

Featured
eKitabu’s signed Digital Story Time included in Kenya Ministry of Education’s distance learning program.
Disability Inclusive Education

Pivoting in a Pandemic: eKitabu Provides Sign Language Video Content For Students

After Kenya closed schools in response to the pandemic, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development requested that eKitabu support students who are deaf by developing sign language videos that support early grade literacy for deaf children.
September 11, 2020
Photo: The Strengthening Higher Education Access in Malawi (SHEAMA) activity focuses on increasing Malawi’s skilled and employable workforce – especially rural adolescent girls and young women and vulnerable young men. In response to COVID-19, SHEAM formed a Distance Learning Taskforce. The taskforce is composed of faculty from across the 5 public universities and is focusing on ensuring continuity of learning in universities through distance learning amidst the pandemic.
Higher Education

Higher Education’s Response to COVID-19

As the COVID-19 spreads, governments and higher education institutions are faced with tough decisions on how to continue to provide education and what role HEIs and HE can play to respond to the global pandemic. 
November 10, 2020
U.S.-Egypt Higher Education Initiative Launch
Higher Education
November 8, 2019

Five Primary Types of USAID-Funded Higher Education Activities FY 2014-2018

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.
Third-year nursing students at the Kenya Medical Training College, Kisumu County.
Higher Education
November 8, 2019

Higher Education and Inclusion: A Win-Win Strategy

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.
 
Student Mentoring Session
Higher Education
November 8, 2019

USAID’s Higher Education Portfolio: Where Do We Go From Here?

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. 
Certification Ceremony
Higher Education
August 20, 2019

Developing Future Leaders of Kosovo Through Higher Education Partnerships

As a young, independent Balkan nation working toward integration to the European Union, Kosovo’s development priorities include strengthening governance and reforming its public administration and education systems. 
Asmae Mani, Career Counselor; Yassine Ouaàllou, Youth Ambassador
Youth Workforce Development
April 24, 2019

How Morocco’s Career Center is Preparing Young People for an Ever-Changing Job Market

In Morocco, it’s often the more educated people that are most likely to be un- or under-employed. In fact, the unemployment rate among those with degrees is 17.1%. 

Do you have a learning blog idea?

Submit it to EducationLinks