Nimbalkar, A.

Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Education Data for Decision Making (EdData II) contract, RTI International was awarded Task Order (TO) number 14, Iraq Education Surveys project–MAHARAT (the Arabic word for “skills”), which sought to improve education-related services and the quality of primary schools in Iraq. The US$3.7 million fixed-price contract consisted of three education surveys to be administered in Iraq over a period of 14 months, starting on October 1, 2011, through December 1, 2012.