Improving Education in Asia for all Learners
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Photo credit: USAID Okuu Keremet! Project
Improve education in Asia for greater learning outcomes and resilience, including among marginalized learners.
Provide tailored analytic and implementation support for USAID education programming in Asia, and strengthen the capacity of regional, national, and local education partners.
More effective education programming, increased capacity of USAID Missions and education partners, and improved evidence base for impactful education programming built/in place.
The USAID Improving Learning Outcomes for Asia (ILOA) Activity (2022–2027) provides services and support to expand the evidence for and effectiveness of USAID education programming across Central, South, and Southeast Asia. USAID ILOA builds on over a decade of RTI experience supporting USAID education programming in Asia, including under the USAID All Children Reading–Asia Program, USAID Data for Education Programming in Asia and the Middle East, and USAID Education Data for Decision-Making (EdData II).
Given each country has its own education sector challenges, USAID ILOA is designed to rapidly respond to USAID Mission, ministry, and other partner needs with tailored expertise and support. USAID ILOA consortium members, which include technical and regional partners, help USAID to design, implement, and evaluate education interventions from pre-primary to higher education and workforce development.
Sample activities include:
Across Asia, countries are striving to provide quality education for all learners, a daunting undertaking in a region home to nearly 60% of the world’s population. Furthermore, climate change and other shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, have made resilience building in the education sector crucial to progress.
Resilience, localization, gender equity, and social inclusion are priorities for USAID education programming. USAID Missions across Asia can “buy in” to the ILOA mechanisms to unpack these priorities and apply them to specific activities to address their particular context. For example:
USAID ILOA generates and captures education evidence and knowledge and disseminates it to stakeholders through networking and exchange programs. In this vein, a technical advisory group of USAID foreign service nationals has been assembled to exchange learning and good practices across countries and regions, as well as to guide implementation of USAID ILOA. USAID ILOA is also delivering webinars that link educators to global good practices and connections with existing learning networks and platforms.
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