In the News and Impact Stories

Success story about a recent kindergarten initiative under USAID's Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Project to help children and parents prepare to enter school.

Referencing the USAID/PRIORITAS project. From the News Desk of the Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, March 21, 2017 | 02:36 pm, "The Culture and Education Ministry and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) presented literacy awards to 19 regencies and municipalities for having improved student literacy in the areas...."

This article points out the increase in RCT's for impact evaluation, and reports on a recent conference at the Center for Global Development to take stock of RCTs in development. The article mentions the RCTs in Kenya's Tusome program that have been influential because of collaboration with local governments.

This report describes the baseline findings of an external evaluation of the Tayari pre-primary school programme. Tayari is an early childhood development and education intervention funded by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). The intervention is implemented by the RTI International, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), and in collaboration with four counties.

This article describes the launch of the Lancet series on early childhood education, and a study co-authored by Dr. Maureen Black, Distinguished Fellow at RTI International. See related resources for more information.

This article in AllAfrica (October 2016) describes the launch of the USAID and DfID cofinanced Malawi MERIT project, implemented with support from RTI International.

This article that appeared in The Economist (online and print editions) refers to work that RTI implements on behalf of USAID/Kenya for the Tayari project, as well as research that appeared in the Journal "The Lancet". See "related resources".