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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 20, 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
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.
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.
Accelerated Education training participants
Education in Crisis and Conflict
January 31, 2019

Accelerated Education

Ten country teams from throughout Africa gathered in Uganda to attend a hands-on Accelerated Education training developed by the Accelerated Education Working Group with support from ECCN and USAID.
Classroom in Northern Nigeria
Education in Crisis and Conflict
November 21, 2018

Six steps for measuring equitable education access in crisis and conflict settings

The 2018 USAID Education Policy made equity and equal access to quality education a priority area, with a particular focus on increasing access among the most marginalized and vulnerable children and youth.
Conflict Sensitive Education Trainees
Education in Crisis and Conflict
November 13, 2018

After the Conflict Subsides

Laura Harrington, an international manager for Chemonics, supports a program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that improves access, quality, and governance in both formal and non-formal education.
EDC Guinea
Education in Crisis and Conflict
November 7, 2018

Our Violent Pasts

Societies around the world struggle with violent pasts and with the legacies of genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes. Not acknowledging or accepting such traumas may fracture social cohesion and leave lasting grievances.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
August 24, 2018

Announcing a Conflict Sensitivity Checklist for ICT Usage

Crisis affects the education of 80 million children worldwide. An education intervention, if designed well, can improve the conditions these children face; done poorly, it can exacerbate the conflict. This is why conflict sensitivity is critical.