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BASIC EDUCATION Basic Education Activities Basic Education Key Contacts Basic Education Publications

SARA assists the Bureau for Africa in achieving its objectives in education :

  • to disseminate and provide guidance on policies, approaches and tools to increase sustainability and efficiency in the provision of basic education
  • To strengthen the enabling environment to promote improve education sector policies, programs and strategies

SARA focuses on the following issues:

  • identifying priority issues and researching new developments in the provision of education in Africa. Issues currently include the new role of NGOs in basic education, community schools programs, lifeskills in the HIV/AIDS context, and education in countries in crisis
  • promoting in-country stakeholders' dialogue around some of these issues such as in Mali, Guinea , Ethiopia and Malawi
  • providing technical assistance to USAID field programs in selected countries
  • strengthening the capacity and upgrading the leadership of regional education networks such as the Education
  • Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA) which has chapters in 11 countries
  • providing research guidance, publication and dissemination assistance to ERNWACA researchers in the production of transnational studies on issues of access, quality and community participation in education
  • conducting impact assessments of USAID AFR/SD/Education activities

For more information on SARA's activities on basic education, access PDF version here.