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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These teachers’ guides supplement the Living: Skills for Life, Botswana’s Window of Hope curricula.
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 guide provides an overview of IRI as a methodology, and discusses its feasibility and applicability in a range of contexts.
This brief outlines EDC’s approach to preventing and responding to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV).
These stories from a faces behind the success of the Akazi Kanoze 2 work readiness program in Rwanda.
This toolkit provides program designers with information on how to develop and implement effective early childhood interactive audio instruction (IAI) programs in a range of settings.
This paper explores how the Government of Mali, with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development and Education Development Center, Inc., used innovative tools and methods (including georeferencing, mapping, and school/village surveys) to better understand the twin challenges posed by home-school distance and inefficient teacher distribution in rural communities and why Mali chose an old-school solution: one-room, multi-grade schools equipped with trained teachers and appropriate materials.
This guide provides a conceptual framework, instruments, and tools for designing and implementing youth assessments in developing countries.
This qualitatitive study was designed to evaluate the employment and livelihoods status of several groups of participants in the Akazi Kanoze Youth Livelihoods Project after their graduation.
This report studies the cost-effectiveness of information communication technology (ICT) in community schools during the Time to Learn project.