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Research and Evidence Building in support of the USAID Education Strategy

This paper outlines the research agenda for the USAID Education Strategy (2011-2015) and highlights key areas of focus, such as improved reading skills, workforce development programs, equitable access in crisis settings, and more. It also discusses cross-cutting research themes like cost-effectiveness, scale and sustainability, and transparency of implementation fidelity. The document emphasizes the operationalization of the research agenda through various initiatives and highlights USAID funding opportunities. 8 Relevant

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Research and Evidence Building in support of the USAID Education Strategy

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  1. Research and Evidence Building in support of theUSAID Education Strategy Christine Beggs, Senior Education Advisor Office of Education, USAID/Washington

  2. USAID Education Strategy (2011-2015) • Goal 1: Improved reading skills for 100 million children in primary grades by 2015. • Goal 2: Improved ability of tertiary and workforce development programs to produce a workforce with relevant skills to support country development goals by 2015. • Goal 3: Increased equitable access to education in crisis and conflict environments for 15 million learners by 2015.

  3. Research Agenda is framed by Education StrategyIllustrative examples: • Improved early-grade reading: • Assessment and Open Data • Impact of parental and community engagement? • Youth workforce development: • Skills: technical and non-cognitive, relative importance? • Which transition-to-work interventions increase employment? • Equitable access in conflict and crisis settings: • Accelerated Learning Programs: best models, limitations? • Relationship between school safety and access/learning?

  4. Cross-cutting Research and Evaluation Themes • Cost-effectiveness • Collecting cost data • Building cost analyses into evaluations • Looking at costs (and impact) at scale • Scale and Sustainability • Studies on scale and sustainability (retrospective) • Experimenting with new models for sustainability • Transparency of Implementation Fidelity

  5. Operationalizing our Research Agenda • USAID Evaluation Policy and Agency’s increased commitment to research and evidence building. • Linking our global agenda to country-level projects. • Central funding and contract in place to support rigorous evaluations. • Supporting Communities of Practice to further refine and operationalize research agenda. • Co-founded and co-chair of the Building Evidence in Education (BE2) Donor Working Group

  6. Additional information about USAID funding opportunities:- www.fbo.gov- www.grants.gov- http://www.usaid.gov/work-usaid/get-grant-or-contract/grant-and-contract-process

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