Learning

This series is intended for Education Officers in USAID partner countries and implementing partners who are designing and managing new activities, evaluations, and/or research efforts.

The desk review found that youth are becoming increasingly relevant actors in research and knowledge production across sectors.

This blog discusses what we’re learning in positive youth development. USAID’s Positive Youth Development Learning Agenda should be used as a guiding source for this evaluation.

The Youth Excel representatives emphasized the importance of acknowledging how hierarchies within our societies are based on differences in power and this often involves power differences between adults and youth.

From Nov. 9-10, young changemakers were front and center leading talks, exchanging ideas, and providing their unique perspectives on topics such as youth engagement, relationship building, and equitable representation in development.

USAID’s new evidence review, Reigniting Learning: Strategies for Accelerating Learning Post-Crisis, identifies evidence-based strategies to adapt the curriculum, modify instructional time, and refine pedagogy to accelerate learning.

How can practitioners and donors develop effective programming to help youth truly understand what entrepreneurship is and engage as entrepreneurs themselves?

SafePlan Uganda and KCEO have adopted many promising approaches as youth-led organizations that focus on robust relationship building with partners, youth networks, and involving influential community leaders.