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 violence
- School-related gender-based 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
Country offices
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Côte d'Ivoire
- 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
Contacts
- Bethany Johnson
- Senior Gender and Policy Advisor, Office of Education
- bjohnson@dexisonline.com
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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
Project/Program
Education Reform in the Classroom
Project/Program
READ II
Project/Program
Accelerated Quality Education for Liberian Children
Project/Program
Speed School Program
Project/Program
Accelerating Equitable Access to School, Reading, Student Retention and Accountability (ACCELERE!)
Project/Program
Orphans, Vulnerable Children and Youth Program
Research Project/Report/Study
Afya Pwani
Project/Program
Our Sisters Read
Project/Program
Northern Education Initiative Plus (NEI+) Program
Project/Program
Guatemala Basic Education Strengthening (BEST) Project
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Getting girls back to the classroom after COVID-19 school closures
Project/Program
Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR)
Project/Program
Biruh Tesfa (“Bright Future”)
Project/Program
Empowering Adolescent Girls to Lead through Education (EAGLE)
Project/Program
Global Engagement Initiative
Project/Program
Afghan Children Read
Project/Program
Education Programme
Project/Program
Shukhi Jibon
Research Project/Report/Study
Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity (LARA)
Network/Convening/Conference
Accelerated Education
Project/Program
USAID Mali Girls Leadership And Empowerment Through Education (USAID Mali GLEE)
Project/Program
Improving Literacy with EGRA
Project/Program
Reading for All Malawi (REFAM)
Research Project/Report/Study
Strategies for Accelerating Learning Post-Crisis
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Returning to Learning During Crises: Decision-making and Planning Tools for Education Leaders
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Youth Empowerment
Project/Program
Transform: Primary Health Care
Project/Program
UKAID-USAID ACCELERE!
Project/Program
Alternative Rite of Passage
Project/Program
Mentor, Educate, Empower & Employ HER
Project/Program
Uganda School Health and Reading Program
Project/Program
USAID/Indonesia Ready-to-Work Accelerator Program (RWAP)
Project/Program
Steps Towards Afghan Girls' Education Success (STAGES)
Project/Program
Waache Wasome (Let Them Learn)
Project/Program
Strengthening Higher Education Access in Malawi Activity (SHEAMA)
Project/Program
Mali Education Recovery Support Activity (ERSA)
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Return to Learning During COVID-19
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Delivering Distance Learning in Emergencies
Project/Program
Strengthening Education in Afghanistan, Phase II (SEA II)