Final Report: Lecture Pour Tous

The Lecture Pour Tous Final Performance Report provides an in-depth overview of the program's background, theory of change and objectives, methodology, results and impact, and lessons learned and recommendations for transition and sustainability. The report is intended for all audiences.
Resource - Project Report

Learning from All Children Reading Technical Briefs

The world has been facing a global learning crisis since even before the COVID-19 pandemic triggered widespread learning loss. In response, many countries are enacting reforms to improve foundational skills like reading, which require multiple coherent education system components that tightly align with learning and use cost-effective approaches to achieve and sustain outcomes at national scale.
Resource - Technical Brief

Final Report: ACCELERE! Activity1: Improving Education Access, Quality, and Governance in the DRC

USAID, in partnership with the DRC government , designed the ACCELERE!1 project to improve educational outcomes for girls and boys through improved school materials, reduced barriers to education, and increased transparency of school governance structures in the DRC.
Resource - Project Report

ACCELERE!1 Interactive Radio Lessons

"Lecture pour la vie" is a local language interactive radio instruction program developed by the ACCELERE!1 program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Resource - Radio Lessons

Testing an Approach to Distance Professional Development in Senegal

To respond to a variety of needs — from COVID-19 disruptions to the adoption of new and diverse instructional approaches — the Lecture Pour Tous program piloted an approach to increase sustainable access to continued professional development.
Resource - Technical Brief

Lecture Pour Tous Early Grade Reading Assessment Midline Results

Drawing from action research conducted by the project, Lecture Pour Tous is developing a policy framework to increase and sustain long-term student reading outcomes. The program has yielded positive results in the first three years of implementation.
Resource - Project Report

Early Grade Reading Achievement and Context in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Findings and Recommendations

This Technical Brief describes the challenges of access to education faced by Congolese early grade students. It covers the issues of the quality of education, the solutions implemented by the ACCELERE! project to help address the challenges identified, the lessons learned from the project, and the recommendations for future programming.
Resource - Technical Brief

Book Supply Chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This technical brief presents recommendations for future implementers on keys to a successful teaching and learning materials supply chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Resource - Technical Brief

Low-Cost Private Schools in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The USAID- and UK Aid-funded ACCELERE!1 project addresses the emergence and challenges facing Low-Cost Private Schools (LCPS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). LCPS are key partners in and improving student outcomes.
Resource - Technical Brief

Keeping Vulnerable Children in School – Evidence of a Successful Community Savings Model

This technical brief describes how ACCELERE!1 used microfinance income-generating activities and community savings groups to help parents secure a more sustainable future for their children through education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Resource - Technical Brief

Gender Sensitive Policies in Education Programming

This technical brief provides an analysis of how country context and existing policies have proven to be key to creating responsive gender programming throughout Chemonics education projects.
Resource - Technical Brief

Final Report: Strengthening Educational Performance-Up (STEP-Up) Zambia Project

The goal of the Strengthening Educational Performance-Up Zambia Project was to create an environment conducive to making reforms operational, thereby producing measurable increases in learner performance. It also raised awareness of early grade reading achievement as a gateway to improved student retention.
Resource - Project Report