Learning

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

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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
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Systems Strengthening
August 8, 2018

Good Practices for Engaging Host Countries for Sustainable Education Programs

Education beats at the heart of development, and host country stakeholders are the key to maintaining the rhythm.
Bridges program participants.
Systems Strengthening
August 1, 2018

Successes and Challenges of Project Co-Creation

In 2014, the USAID mission in Guatemala issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to develop a project to help 25,000 young people in the Western Highlands of Guatemala gain workforce readiness skills and better position themselves to secure private sector job opportunities. But a positive impact on Guatemalan youth wasn't the only marker of the success of this project. Learn how the mission's co-creation project design approach cultivated trusted relationships and established its convening power between and among the Agency and its implementing partners.