The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been helping the Afghan government to increase children's access to basic education since 2003. One of the strategies that USAID uses to bring education to children in remote areas is Community Based Education (CBE). USAID partners with the Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE) and implementing partners to implement the CBE strategy. CBE is a proven means to reach children who are unable to attend formal schools due to insecurity, distance or other constraints.
After the Taliban regime ended in 2001, Afghanistan needed significant investment to develop its higher education sector, and access to liberal arts education remained limited. To address this need, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) joined the Ministry of Higher Education, Afghan business leaders, and private donors in Afghanistan and abroad to establish the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) in 2006.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) works with the Ministry of Education to improve educational attainment in Afghanistan and provide educational services that generate measureable learning outcomes. Recently, USAID conducted a national Early Grade Reading Assessment. The results provide information for the Ministry of Education and the international donor community to support early grade reading reform. The assessment findings also serve as a starting point for the Afghan Children Read for the development of teaching and learning materials and for measuring its progress.
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Assessment of Learning Outcomes and Social Effects of Community-Based Education (ALSE) research project examines how well community-based schools are helping children learn in core subjects such as literacy and mathematics.
The Afghanistan University Support and Workforce Development Program supports the Ministry of Higher Education and 11 public universities to implement strategies designed to ensure quality education and employment opportunities for Afghan students. Inaddition, the project links universities and potential public and private sector employers and strengthens the management of the partneruniversities. The partner universities include Kabul University, Kabul Polytechnic University, Kabul Medical University, Shaheed Rabbani Education University, Nangarhar University, Herat University, Balkh University, Kandahar University, Kunduz University, Khost University, and Jowzjan University.
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