United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Description
USAID is the world's premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. USAID's work advances U.S. national security and economic prosperity, demonstrates American generosity, and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience. USAID works to ensure inclusive equitable quality education for all children and youth, especially the most marginalized and vulnerable. To achieve our education goals, USAID promotes education programs that respond to the needs of both girls and boys by: Reducing gender-based violence against children and mitigating its harmful effects; and Increasing the capability of learners to realize their rights, determine their life outcomes and influence their decision making so that all learners, especially girls, have access to safe, quality education programs and services.
Primary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Funding
- Networking/Convening
- Policy Development/Implementation
- Research - policy analysis
- Research - project evaluation
Secondary Functions
- Research - other
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
- Post-secondary
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
Other
- Early childhood development
- Other
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Financial literacy
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
- Vocational training
Quality
- Curricula/lesson plans
- School facilities
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
- School violence
- Teacher training
Skills
- Civics education
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Other academic performance-related
- STEM
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Community sensitization
- Early/child marriage
- Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Empowerment
- Female genital mutilation/cutting
- Food/water security
- Gender equality
- HIV and STIs
- Masculinities/boys
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Mentorship
- Nutrition
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Other cultural practices
- Sexual harassment & coercion
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Sports
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
- WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
Funders and partners Back to Top
Current girls’ education funders
Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Headquarters location(s)
- Washington, D.C., , United States of America
Office location(s)
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Gambia, The
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Republic of Moldova
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Republic of Tanzania
- United States of America
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Viet Nam
- West Bank and Gaza
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Locations of current girls’ education work
Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs
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Projects Back to Top
Research Project/Report/Study
Afya Pwani
Project/Program
Malawi Secondary Education Expansion for Development (SEED)
Advocacy Campaign/Project
USAID Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze
Project/Program
Soma Umenye (“read and understand”)
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Youth Empowerment
Project/Program
Uganda School Health and Reading Program
Project/Program
Uganda Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Getting girls back to the classroom after COVID-19 school closures
Project/Program
Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR)
Project/Program
DREAMS
Project/Program
Afghan Children Read
Project/Program
Reading for All Malawi (REFAM)
Project/Program
Accelerated Quality Education for Liberian Children
Project/Program
Girls’ Education South Sudan (GESS)
Project/Program
READ II
Project/Program
Our Sisters Read
Project/Program
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Education
Project/Program
USAID Reading for Ethiopia’s Achievement Developed (READ II) Education Recovery
Project/Program
USAID/Indonesia Ready-to-Work Accelerator Program (RWAP)
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Return to Learning During COVID-19
Project/Program
Distance Learning for Higher Education
Advocacy Campaign/Project
The Puentes Project
Project/Program
Apatseni Mwayi Atsikana Aphunzire (AMAA)
Project/Program
Tusome Pamoja (Read Together)
Project/Program
Waache Wasome (Let Them Learn)
Project/Program
Mentor, Educate, Empower & Employ HER
Project/Program
USAID Jordan Workforce Development Project
Research Project/Report/Study
Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity (LARA)
Project/Program
Alternative Rite of Passage
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Delivering Distance Learning in Emergencies
Project/Program
Girls Leadership and Empowerment through Education (GLEE)
Project/Program
Egypt Literate Village
Project/Program
USAID De Lectores a Líderes
Project/Program
USAID Pakistan Gender Equality
Project/Program
USAID Mali Girls Leadership And Empowerment Through Education (USAID Mali GLEE)
Project/Program
UKAID-USAID ACCELERE!
Project/Program
Orphans, Vulnerable Children and Youth Program
Project/Program
Global Engagement Initiative
Project/Program
Northern Education Initiative Plus (NEI+) Program
Project/Program
Guatemala Basic Education Strengthening (BEST) Project
Project/Program
Accelerating Equitable Access to School, Reading, Student Retention and Accountability (ACCELERE!)
Project/Program
The Malawi National Reading Program
Project/Program
Stop Girl Trafficking Project
Research Project/Report/Study
Honduras Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS)
Project/Program
Equipping Schools to Accommodate Internally Displaced Students - Burkina Faso
Project/Program
Sindh Basic Education Program (SBEP), Pakistan
Project/Program
USAID RESILIENCE IN THE SAHEL ENHANCED (RISE) II
Research Project/Report/Study
Strategies for Accelerating Learning Post-Crisis
Project/Program
Docentes por la Paz
Project/Program
Steps Towards Afghan Girls' Education Success (STAGES)
Project/Program
Transform: Primary Health Care
Project/Program
Empowering Adolescent Girls to Lead through Education (EAGLE)
Project/Program
Basic Education Quality and Access in Lao PDR (BEQUAL)
Project/Program
Biruh Tesfa (“Bright Future”)
Project/Program
USAID/Integrated Child And Youth Development (ICYD) Activity in Uganda
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Alternate Learning Pathways (ALP) Programme
Project/Program
Strengthening Education in Afghanistan, Phase II (SEA II)
Project/Program
Reading for Ethiopia's Achievement Developed Monitoring and Evaluation (READ M&E)
Project/Program
Improving Literacy with EGRA
Project/Program
Bar ama Baro (“Teach or Learn”)
Project/Program
Transforming the Education System for Teachers and Students in Liberia (TESTS)
Project/Program
Strengthening Higher Education Access in Malawi Activity (SHEAMA)
Project/Program
CATALYZE EduFinance program
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Returning to Learning During Crises: Decision-making and Planning Tools for Education Leaders
Project/Program
Mali Education Recovery Support Activity (ERSA)
Project/Program
Speed School Program
Project/Program
Girls’ Empowerment through Education and Health (ASPIRE)
Project/Program
Education Programme
Project/Program
Shukhi Jibon
Project/Program
Education Reform in the Classroom
Network/Convening/Conference
Accelerated Education