Education and Youth
By providing technical expertise to local and national partners, DevTech broadens education and training opportunities for children, at-risk youth, and adults. DevTech works with education and youth in the following general areas:
- At-Risk Youth Entrepreneurship and Workforce Development
- Education Reconstruction
- Evaluating Education Program Effectiveness
- Gender Equity in Education
DevTech is a member of the Basic Education Coalition.
At Risk Youth Entrepreneurship and Workforce Development
Alternative Education Programs for At-Risk Children and Youth
- Combating child labor through one-half day education programming in the Dominican Republic and Colombia
- Combating exploitive child labor in Central America in collaboration with CARE on a USDOL-funded project
Vocational and Technical Educational Infrastructure
- Conducting a feasibility study to guide USAID and Chevron's support of technical education in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Chevron and USAID are contributing up to $5 million to strengthen technical education at the post-secondary level in Aceh. The purpose of the study was to determine the needs and options for strengthening the relevance, accessibility, and quality of technical education in Aceh
Education Reconstruction
Post-Natural Disaster Educational Infrastructure: Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
- Facilitating rapid reconstruction and refurbishment of damaged education and health facilities across Jamaica in the wake of Hurricane Ivan
- Analyzing the existing Management Information System of the Ministry of Tertiary Education and Training, and proposing a redesign to increase speed and frequency of database updates in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami
- Reconstructing the vocational educational facilities destroyed by Hurricane Mitch in collaboration with USAID/Honduras
- Designing and managing a performance monitoring system for school reconstruction in Iraq in 2003
Evaluating Education Program Effectiveness
Education Policy Reform and Data Analysis
- Running EDII, the education data section of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), which offers household-based survey data on enrollment, achievement, and quality. DevTech's role in this multi-year, multi-partnered effort is to help ensure that appropriate data collection—including sex-disaggregation—is secured, as well as to provide general input on instrument design, delivery, and analysis where gender issues arise.
Monitoring and Evaluation of Education Programs
- Ensuring effective monitoring and evaluation of the Partnership for Accountable Governance in Education (PAGE) in Ghana in partnership with CARE
- Designing the monitoring and evaluation system of a USAID-funded rapid school enrollment and sustained retention system in Iraq, including on-site collection of performance data and reporting on the mid-term and end of project results
- Conducting a mid-course evaluation of the progress and results attained by the pedagogical component of the Benin basic education reform program
- Reviewing the Honduran Secretary of Education's proposed preschool curriculum to ensure that it was well-coupled with proposed education reforms and the end results anticipated from these reforms
- Conducting an education reform evaluation of the Plan Decenal in the Dominican Republic
- Conducting a mid-term performance evaluation of USAID/Jordan's Education Reform Support Project, which supports the Ministry of Education's reform efforts in the areas of early childhood education; youth, technology and career development; professional development and certification; and school-based education programs
Gender Equity in Education
Girls' Education
- DevTech provided technical and administrative support services to the EGAT/WID Office in support of Girls' and Women's Education (GWE) activities.
Making Learning Environments Safer, for Girls and Boys
DevTech developed and implemented the Safe Schools pilot program in Ghana and Malawi, which sought to mitigate school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) through appropriate interventions at the local, community, national, and institutional levels. Since the pilot program ended, several international organizations have adopted and implemented Safe Schools training materials to continue to address SRGBV in Malawi and in other countries, including Haiti and Senegal.
