Learning

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

Featured
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
Education in Crisis and Conflict
October 21, 2016

Equality in Educational Materials

Learning materials have a powerful effect on children, influencing their understanding of the world—and themselves. USAID’s Guide for Strengthening Gender Equality and Inclusiveness in Teaching and Learning Materials details how to foster inclusion.
EDC - Kenya
Education in Crisis and Conflict
May 10, 2016

Adaptive Management

Many practitioners struggle with program design when conflict is present. Recent reports from the field provide insights on adaptive management and feedback loops, the core of USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting approach.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
March 29, 2016

Strengthening the Safety Net

Learn about ECCN’s recent study in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A unique opportunity exists there to create more responsive alternative education for the 3.5 million young people outside of the formal system.
Education in Crisis and Conflict
January 26, 2016

Adaptive Management: In the Loop

Is your education project one that is threatened by conflict, has militias, gangs, or bullies nearby, or runs from security forces rather than asking them for help? These situations, in the words of Ben Ramalingam, present “wicked problems.”