Learning

Global youth unemployment has hit women especially hard; young women are disproportionately unemployed, underemployed, and impoverished worldwide.

Education—and its bedrock, literacy—is foundational to human development and critical to a country’s economic growth.

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.  

Cost-effective and appropriate uses of information and communications technology (ICT) can be essential components to supporting basic education.

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.

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.

Gender-responsive education programs that promote increased access to, and completion of, quality education for both girls and boys yield multiplier effects. But what, exactly, do we mean when we talk about “gender?”

A country’s education level is critical for its economic success. However, it is not just the quantity of education that counts. The quality of the education is also critically important.