Completed Projects
January – September 2023 GLEE is a five-year project from 2018 to 2023 implemented by Winrock International that aims to increase access to education for girls aged 10–18 in target areas of the Kayes and Mopti regions of Mali. The project is designed to achieve this goal through community mobilization, participatory capacity-building, mentorship, and peer learning. GLEE also uses social behavior change communication with respect to girls’ education, safety, and health; and provides scholarships, and teaching and learning materials, to schools and health workers. To help girls develop in a better environment, the project will improve access to water, sanitation,…
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November 2021 – September 2022 The Government of Cape Verde is committed to improving the quality of education in the country. In order to strengthen foundational skills in education, the Education and Skills Development Enhancement Project, funded by the World Bank since 2018, supports the establishment and operationalization of a student assessment system within the ministry of education to accompany and monitor the ongoing education reform. As part of this work, the ministry of education of Cape Verde contracted EdIntersect to carry out an Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) study in Cape Verde in tandem with ministry staff in 2022.…
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October 2021 – May 2022 This education initiative is a Multi-Donor Trust Fund managed by the World Bank, with funding from the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). The development objective is to improve the educational participation and learning outcomes of children in need. Under this plan, our partners will develop a global toolkit on Universal Design for Assessment (UDA) implementation within low- to middle-income countries (LMICs). Using the best practices on the Early Grade Math Assessment (EGMA), IDP set out to pilot an accessible, UDA EGMA in Tajikistan through…
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October 2016 – June 2021 The Senegal All Children Reading project, known as Lecture Pour Tous, was a USAID-funded project implemented by Chemonics International from 2016 to 2021. The project supported the Ministry of Education in developing a sustainable and scalable national reading program in three national languages (Wolof, Pulaar, and Seereer), and implemented interventions to improve early grade reading instruction in public primary schools and daaras, improve delivery systems for early grade reading instruction, and improve parent and community engagement in early grade reading. EdIntersect took a lead role on Output 1.4: “Early Grade Reading Assessment Improved” under Outcome…
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September 2016 – November 2021 Soma Umenye (‘read and understand’) was a five-year USAID-funded activity, implemented by Chemonics International between 2016 and 2021, which aimed to improve reading outcomes in Kinyarwanda for more than 1 million children in public and government-aided schools in Rwanda. Covering all five provinces of Rwanda and working in close collaboration with the Rwanda Education Board and the Rwandan Ministry of Education, Soma Umenye contributed to Rwanda’s Education Sector Strategic Plan and the government of Rwanda’s national development priority of ensuring that Rwandan primary-grade students acquire the fundamental competency of literacy so that they can succeed…
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September 2020 – December 2021 UNICEF awarded Alegre Associates, Inc. and EdIntersect a contract to design and conduct an independent evaluation for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) in Nigeria. SDG4 aims to ensure quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. For this evaluation, EdIntersect provides the education evaluation team, which brings technical support, expertise in the education sector and resources for the completion of a high-quality evaluation in accordance with the standards from UNICEF and the government of Nigeria. The specific objectives of the independent evaluation are to: measure the extent to which the Education…
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February 2020 – April 2021 GLEE is a three-year project from 2018 to 2021 implemented by Winrock International that aims to increase opportunities in education for adolescent girls aged 10–18 in target areas of the Kayes and Mopti regions of Mali. The project is designed to achieve this goal through community mobilization, participatory capacity-building, mentorship, and peer learning. GLEE uses social behavior change communication with respect to girls’ education, safety, and health; and provides scholarships, and teaching and learning materials to schools and health workers. To help girls develop in a better environment, the project improves access to water, sanitation,…
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January – May 2020 Through the USAID Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning Eval-ME IDIQ, The Mitchell Group, Inc. (TMG), EdIntersect, and Le Centre de Promotion de la Citoyenneté pour un Développement Durable à la Base (CEPROCIDE) partnered to conduct a mid-term performance evaluation of the USAID Mali Selective Integrated Reading Activity (SIRA). USAID/Mali partnered with the ministry of education in Mali on SIRA. The program’s objectives are to 1) improve early grade reading instruction; 2) improve early grade reading delivery systems; and, 3) increase support for early grade reading by parents, the community and private groups. The mid-term performance…
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August – December 2019 Room to Read uses the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) tool to evaluate the outcomes of its literacy program in different countries across Asia and Africa. Room to Read creates the EGRA tool in each of these countries with the help of local language experts and finalizes the tool after thorough testing and revisions. In 2019, Room to Read created fresh EGRA tools for its program countries in Southeast Asia (Laos), South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal), and Africa (South Africa and Tanzania). The EGRA tool is developed and piloted by country program and…
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October – December 2019 Plan International was undertaking work on a monitoring and evaluation framework, which had led to 15 indicators selected for molding into a set of quality education indicators for use by Plan’s programs in country offices globally. Plan sought the support of EdIntersect to review and refine the draft indicators, recognizing that Plan has a strong interest in qualitative indicators rather than standard education indicators that may not often measure what Plan focuses on in their programming. The work Plan wanted to measure was taking place across 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Once the…
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