Completed Projects
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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February 2020 – April 2021 GLEE is a three-year project from 2018 to 2021 implemented by Winrock International that aims to increase access to 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 inclusive 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’s programming is concerned with social norms and thus 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…
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October 2018 – March 2019 EdIntersect served as the prime contractor on this award from Winrock International to conduct the baseline evaluation of this USAID-funded girls’ leadership, empowerment, and education program in Mali. Together with its subcontractors, School-to-School International and Le Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur l’Information en Population et Santé (CERIPS), EdIntersect conducted the project baseline study for Mali GLEE, which aims to increase girls’ educational opportunities. GLEE was a three-year project from 2018 to 2020 implemented by Winrock International that aimed to increase access to education for adolescent girls aged 10–18 in target areas of the Kayes…
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December 2015 – February 2016 EdIntersect worked with grantee organizations of the Banyan Tree Foundation in Kenya and Sierra Leone to refine activities and outcomes for remediation and life skills interventions as part of their adolescent program strategies. The Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) and Defence for Children International of Sierra Leone (DCI-SL) are moving into more focused work with upper primary and lower secondary schoolchildren to ensure smooth transitions into studies beyond early primary school and to meet the particular needs of adolescents.
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August – October 2015 EdIntersect designed and facilitated a human-centered design workshop with grantee organizations from Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nepal, and Ethiopia on mentorship and leadership-focused work. The overarching goal was to bring all country teams to the workshop site in northern Virginia to gain greater insight in designing programs with and for adolescents. These programs were intended to drive academic progress, in particular reading and numeracy remediation, and to mitigate dropout in upper primary school and secondary school. EdIntersect prepared the workshop taking into account the current work of each grantee in early primary programming, sustainability, and monitoring and…
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May – October 2015 EdIntersect developed the proposal with Miske Witt & Associates in response to World Vision, the implementing organization for the IGATE program in Zimbabwe for the UK Department of International Development’s (DFID) – now called the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). As part of the midterm evaluation team, EdIntersect developed reading passages, EGRA adaptation, and household survey consultation, and provided training and technology support in programming and using Tangerine. IGATE was implemented by World Vision and CARE.
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