With a wave of investment transforming Africa’s educational, economic, and physical infrastructure, a bright future lies ahead for the continent’s 1 billion people. But realizing this promise will require innovative solutions to some persistent challenges, including conflict, illiteracy, and health crises.
EDC is committed to improving the lives of people across Africa. Our programs build entrepreneurship and economic opportunity, support ambitious education reform efforts, and develop solutions to pervasive public health issues, including HIV/AIDS. Across all of our work, we consult regional partners to create meaningful, effective programs that are informed by local contexts and are designed to be sustainable long into the future.
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The following stories were developed through the support of USAID’s Core Education Skills for Liberian Youth (CESLY) program.
This study reviews student assessment data collected from 15 EDC projects to determine the impact of interactive radio instruction (IRI) on student achievement in hard-to-reach areas.
This study was designed to gain a deep understanding of the skills that youth, employers, and educators think are important for education and employment.
This is an invited memo offering an investment case for school health and nutrition programs that was prepared for the Spring 2022 Meeting of the Global Education Forum (GEF).
This learning series summarizes the results of participant studies in the USAID Advancing Youth Project in Liberia. The studies explored topics in alternative basic education such as leadership,
The findings from this research seek to identify opportunities and constraints for employment and self-employment for Liberian youth.
In response to an outbreak of the Ebola virus in Liberia, EDC’s USAID Advancing Youth Project (AYP) developed a set of literacy and numeracy interactive audio instruction (IAI) lessons for radio broadcast.
Rwanda has made commendable efforts to improve basic education, including literacy in the early grades.
These teachers’ guides supplement the Living: Skills for Life, Botswana’s Window of Hope curricula.
This report is an external evaluation of the work of the Akazi Kanoze 2 work readiness project to integrate a work-readiness curriculum and school-to-work transition program into the Rwandan education system.