Completed Projects
April – July 2015 Working with USAID’s MEASURE Evaluation project and Palladium, EdIntersect developed essential training elements for the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (MER) guidance for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with a set of outcome indicators for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) programs. These outcome indicators were designated as essential survey indicators, thus PEPFAR requires countries to collect these indicators biennially. USAID’s Global Health Bureau administers PEPFAR and the MEASURE Evaluation IDIQ with Palladium as one of the implementing partners.
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April – June 2015 EdIntersect provided recommendations on how Save the Children’s Sponsorship Program guidance in basic education and early childhood care and development can meet Save the Children’s minimum standard of gender sensitivity and thus advance gender equality for girls and boys. EdIntersect conducted document review, key informant interviewing virtually with global staff in the US, Canada, and the UK, as well as interviewing in person with Bamako and Sikasso staff in Mali, field visits to schools with teacher and parent focus groups and classroom observations in Mali, and reporting and presentations for key stakeholders.
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January – February 2015 EdIntersect used human-centered design to facilitate, synthesize, and provide final products for the Girls’ Education & Empowerment Consultative Meeting with CARE education, health, livelihoods and country office staff from 9 countries, as well as key external partners and donors from literacy, gender, youth, social inclusion, and tech organizations. Through this consultative process, EdIntersect and the partners developed a theory of change for guidance in CARE’s 2015-2020 programming. The workshop final report from EdIntersect was circulated to all involved partners and disseminated across the girls’ education and empowerment community.
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November – December 2014 EdIntersect developed literacy materials for a newly redesigned women’s economic empowerment model in Africa and Asia. EdIntersect integrated perspectives from both the internal team and external consultants for both business training and village savings and loan content. Our approach built on both Winrock and leading external models and experiences to embed functional literacy components, understand user and facilitator profiles, and bridge with local language/mother tongue adaptations.
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April – July 2014 Using human-centered design, EdIntersect created CARE USA’s 2015-2020 education sector strategy. Our approach built on CARE’s strengths and their targeted growth areas in order to help them achieve their mission of reaching the most marginalized. EdIntersect included creative, participatory strategic planning, an intersectional lens for reaching the most marginalized populations, and a design-thinking approach to problem solving. The EdIntersect team developed a literature review, trends analysis, interview summary report, and draft and final strategy documents. The strategy was well received by partners and funders, who recognized an adept blend of CARE’s legacy and CARE’s future.
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June – December 2013 USAID’s MEASURE Evaluation project and implementing partner Palladium needed a training manual for facilitators anywhere in the world to have the tools necessary for preparing local data collectors to use child well-being measures house to house to create quality program evaluations. EdIntersect provided a teaching and learning approach to the orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) team in creating a training manual with data quality, research ethics, interviewing, and team dynamics components. After field testing in Nigeria, the manual was finalized in consultation with the OVC team and slides, handouts, and clear notes and background knowledge for…
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June – September 2013 EdIntersect analyzed online learning content toward the creation of a global online platform for training and capacity building. Our team brought research and analysis expertise with specific attention to ICT solutions for training. The content analysis conducted by EdIntersect informed and shaped CreativeU development, with internal and external team building, learning, and decision points leading to a platform for user testing. EdIntersect and CreativeU employed user persona building with a human-centered design approach to build a prototype with key partners’ inputs. At launch, CreativeU garnered attention at the Education Alliance.
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May – June 2013 Save the Children needed a gender integration toolkit, which required teaching and learning expertise and gender and intersectional analysis to address how to train internal staff on gender integration across thematic areas and across the project cycle. EdIntersect provided education knowledge as part of the Iris Group team to put in place a process where team members engaged in an iterative development process with drafting, feedback, and revisions. The toolkit has been circulated and thematic area teams are using it to improve their work.
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