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

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Girls Reading Together
Reading & Literacy

Increasing Availability of the Books Children Love, Understand, and Can Use to Learn to Read

Despite the fact that research has shown that instruction in the language children use and understand is key to effective learning, many educational systems around the world exclusively instruct young learners in languages that are not familiar to them.
February 13, 2019
USAID in Kenya
Systems Strengthening

USAID in Kenya: Serving as System Steward for Early Grade Learning

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.
December 19, 2018
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.
Child corner
Education in Crisis and Conflict
October 12, 2018

Rapid Education and Risk Analysis: What Is It?

In 32 conflict-affected countries alone, 21.5 million children, 15 million adolescents, and 26 million youth are out of school. Millions more have had their education disrupted by disasters, crime and violence. Achieving results in these challenging environments calls for innovative approaches to the design, management, and evaluation of education programs.
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. Indeed, according to the International Labor Organization, more than 34 percent of young women find themselves in Neither Employment, Education nor Training (NEET).
A pupil doing independent reading
Reading & Literacy
September 7, 2018

Reading Programs that Work

Education—and its bedrock, literacy—is foundational to human development and critical to a country’s economic growth.
Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative
Higher Education
September 6, 2018

The What, Why and How of USAID Higher Education Programs

Higher education creates pathways to better health, economic growth, a sustainable environment, and peaceful, democratic societies. But despite this proven role, questions abound. Here, we explore the what, why and how of higher education programming at USAID.  
Bangladesh Primary Ed
Information and Communication Technology
September 5, 2018

Beyond Tablets

Cost-effective and appropriate uses of information and communications technology (ICT) can be essential components to supporting basic education, including accelerating the development of literacy and numeracy skills and improving the management of schools and education systems. But in low-resource settings with limited funding, where does one start with ICT investments?
Internally displaced school children play chess at a child-friendly space at Rubkona, Bentiu.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
September 3, 2018

South Sudan: Approaches to Delivering Primary Education During Conflict

Despite South Sudan’s Education Act of 2012, which dictates that primary education be free for all, the harsh realities of an ongoing civil war has left South Sudan with the highest proportion of out-of-school children in the world.
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.