USAID’s goal in education is to improve lives and create opportunity. To achieve this goal, USAID is implementing a five-year Education Strategy, Education: Opportunity though Learning, that focuses resources, encourages innovation, and strives to meet the global need for improved access to a quality education for children, youth, and adults.

USAID’s Education Strategy is based on the premise that education is foundational to human development and critical to broad-based economic growth and poverty reduction and is focused on the achievement of three goals by 2015:

USAID Education Strategy
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NEW! 2011 Education Strategy Implementation Guidance (Revised April 2012) (PDF 750KB)

NEW! 2011 Education Strategy Technical Notes
(Revised April 2012) (PDF 743KB)

NEW! 2011 Education Strategy Reference Materials (Revised April 2012) (PDF 1MB)

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