Education

Stories from Ghana on Education

With an overall objective for improved reading proficiency of at least two million Ghanaian children upon primary school completion, the USAID Basic Education program increases access to and completion of basic education, improves the quality of education, and improves and enhances communities’ abilities to oversee school administrations in the Ghanaian education sector. USAID activities include improving the quality of literacy instruction, supporting marginalized populations such as girls in school, strengthening management capacity, and building community capacity to contribute to student and teacher performance. USAID works through the Ghana Educational Service systems in order to bring an increasing number of interventions to national scale.

Activities include:

• Ghana Education Decentralization Project
• Partnership for Accountable Governance in Education
• Grants and Reporting Accountability Increase Literacy
• School Report Cards
• Data Management and Communication Strengthening                                                                                   
• 2011 National Education Assessment
• Technical Assistance Advisor to the Ghana Education Service
• USAID / School Construction
• USAID/Accra School Construction
• Transition and Persistence
• Girls’ Education Unit -  Basic Education Scholarship Program and Planning Support