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

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Students from USAID’s Prioritizing Reform, Innovation, Opportunities for Reaching Indonesia’s Teacher, Administrators & Students (PRIORITAS) project
Education in Crisis and Conflict

Reigniting Learning: What Works to Help Learners Catch-up During Crises

USAID’s new evidence review, Reigniting Learning: Strategies for Accelerating Learning Post-Crisis, identifies evidence-based strategies to adapt the curriculum, modify instructional time, and refine pedagogy to accelerate learning.
November 19, 2020
Photo: Girls take exams in refurbished school
Education in Crisis and Conflict

Understanding Lebanon’s Deepening Education Crisis

The new Lebanon Education in Emergencies Data Snapshot documents the overall educational situation for refugees and factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic that bear on education provision in Lebanon.
September 17, 2020
EiE graphic
Education in Crisis and Conflict
March 30, 2020

Strengthening Education in Emergencies Data

The MEERS program is a four-year activity that supports data collection, data analysis, research, training, and capacity building related to the most pressing education issues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
March 25, 2020

Next Steps in Strengthening Education in Emergencies Data

This presents the newly released “Long-term vision and Action Agenda for education in emergencies data,” an outcome of the Education in Emergencies Data Summit held in Geneva on June 2019.
Photo: Headmaster Sitalal Tamang, center, plays educational games with students in the schoolyard.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
January 31, 2020

Partnering to Protect Nepali Students’ Right to Education

Temporary classrooms built after the 2015 earthquake by USAID and UNICEF provide safe environments for young Nepali minds to learn.
Photo: Students line up for morning activities at Khawla Bint Tha’laba Primary Girls School, located in Sweileh, Jordan.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
January 31, 2020

Improving Measurement Reliability For Child Learning and Wellbeing in Crisis Contexts: The MENAT Measurement Library

As the very first effort of its kind, The MENAT Measurement Library curates a collection of measures that supports researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to generate quality evidence on children’s holistic learning and well-being outcomes.
TZ21 in Zanzibar
Education in Crisis and Conflict
January 9, 2020

The Importance of Building Resilience into Education Systems

Education systems have certain attributes that make them uniquely placed for building individual, community, and systemic resilience.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
July 23, 2019

Measurement Library Launched for Researchers in Middle East and North Africa

Children are falling behind in learning worldwide. According to a 2017 UNESCO report more than six in ten children and youths fail to achieve minimum proficiency in reading and math.
Early grade students listening to their teacher
Education in Crisis and Conflict
June 4, 2019

Education in Syria: Researching on the Shoulders of Giants

As ECCN looks back on its years of promoting cross-agency sharing of tools and resources, we are pleased to present this post, which shows what is possible when education in crisis and conflict professionals are able to access.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
April 22, 2019

Still Learning for Peace

Insecurity presents a significant development challenge in the 21st Century. According to OECD, more than half of the world’s poor will be living in countries affected by high levels of violence by 2030.