IMPROVING BASIC EDUCATION
USAID works in partnership with governments, schools, communities and non-governmental organizations as they strive to improve primary, secondary, formal and non-formal education. Highlights include:

• In Afghanistan, an accelerated learning program compresses two years of study into a single year. Over 170,000 students are enrolled; more than half the students are girls.
• In Egypt, USAID is supporting active learning, libraries for 16,000 schools, school construction, information technology, girls' scholarships, and decentralized education management.
• In Indonesia, active learning methods are promoted in over 1,500 primary and junior secondary schools with 35,000 educators and 500,000 students. Better school management and finance are key.
• In Morocco, 9,600 rural women are learning to read and write while gaining knowledge about their rights under the New Family Code.
• In Pakistan, over 9,000 parent-teacher associations received school improvement grants and helped communities to build over 4,000 new and renovated classrooms, and build or repair over 2,200 toilets.
• In the Philippines, with training 9,000 out-of-school youth re-entered formal schooling, received equivalency degrees or obtained jobs.
• USAID has supported Sesame Street in Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Jordan to promote early childhood development.
• In India, over 13 million primary school students in over 210,000 public schools benefit from successful interactive radio instruction.

IMPROVING HIGHER EDUCATION
Support for higher education contributes to national development efforts. ANE promotes professional development opportunities, institutional linkages, capacity building, and scholarship programs as part of this goal. The ANE Bureau's Training Future Leaders Initiative is a regional effort that highlights the importance of U.S.-trained scholars and their unique role as development leaders upon returning home.