Tajik Librarian Creates a Reading Corner to Promote Reading Skills

Faced with limited books, trained librarians, and physical space, the USAID Read with Me project plans to extend training to reach librarians from 2,800 schools and to donate 800,000 books to 75 percent of schools in Tajikistan before the project ends in 2021.
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Shaping the Next Generation of Tajikistan’s Writers

The USAID Read with Me project inspires a new generation of student writers and cultivates literacy among Tajikistan’s youth, while providing the country’s teachers with new and innovative tools for advancing analytical reading.
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Books Ensure Continued Education for Children with Disabilities in Tajikistan

With a priority on education for all children, USAID’s Read with Me project incorporates modern pedagogy training focused on inclusive learning for children with disabilities. This is supplemented by in-class and out-of-school reading activities for teachers, students, and parents.
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Final Report: Sindh Reading Program

The Sindh Reading Program is one of three complementary USAID projects within the Sindh Basic Education Program (SBEP), a multi-faceted USAID initiative designed with the government of Sindh’s School Education and Literacy Department (SE&LD) to upgrade and implement basic education.
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Final Report: Georgia Primary Education Project

The Georgia Primary Education Project helped Georgian children improve their reading and math skills, in addition to financial literacy, through innovative learning tools.
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Final Report: USAID Morocco Reading for Success – Small Scale Experimentation (RFS-SSE)

USAID/Morocco’s Reading for Success – Small-Scale Experimentation activity supported the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training in the design, training, implementation, and evaluation of Arabic reading lessons for Grade 1 and Grade 2 students. The program aimed to strengthen reading skills by improving teacher and school capacity.
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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.
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Final Report: Indonesia HELM

The Higher Education Leadership and Management project worked over its five years in close collaboration with State Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (RISTEK- DIKTI) and partnered with 50 Indonesian higher education institutions (HEIs) to improve higher education capacity across the country.
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Our Work in Education and Youth

Chemonics’ global network of specialists is committed to improving the quality of education for all and thus improving lives.
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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.
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Teaching Learning Circles

Teacher Learning Circles are small teacher communities, in Georgia, that learn from and support one another, with the ultimate aim of improving student learning outcomes. The groups reflect on current teaching practices and seek ways to enhance their instructional effectiveness.
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Reading, Thinking, Learning: Using Read-Alouds for Comprehensive Literacy Instruction

To encourage a culture of reading in classrooms, the USAID Pakistan Sindh Reading Program used the “reading is thinking” approach, which embeds elements of critical thinking into weekly read-alouds.
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