October 2016 — Since 2012, the Hess Corporation has made a substantial investment to improve college and career readiness in North Dakota. This report provides a snapshot of the impact of Succeed 2020 on students, educators, school leadership, businesses and the community for the time period of July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. It…
January 2013 — This final report describes the results of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program — Graduate Employment Outcomes Study, funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of the research study was to examine the employment outcomes of ATE program graduates in either the biomanufacturing/biotechnology or process technology fields, advance the ATE community’s…
September 2016 — Under the SHIKHA project in Bangladesh, FHI 360 designed a study to evaluate the effect of a large-scale social and behavior change project, the SHIKHA intervention, to provide a strategic direction for quality improvement and to document the lessons learned during the project. This publication is the final report of the survey.
July 2016 — This is the final technical report for the SPLASH (Schools Promoting Learning Achievement through Sanitation and Hygiene) project. This four-year water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project focused on schools and was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development/Zambia. The report presents an overview and discussion of the design, organization, implementation, outputs, outcomes, lessons…
March 2015 — The purpose of this desk assessment is to assist USAID/Indonesia in addressing the question of how education and training institutions can better prepare the poor and vulnerable for employment. The assessment uses systems, skills and value chain frameworks to identify a set of economic patterns around which to structure workforce development activities that are…
June 2016 — This report, commissioned by UNICEF, sought to answer the question: Does violent conflict affect education inequality? The study drew upon data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and the Ethnic Power Relations databases, which enabled the researchers to distinguish between ethnic and nonethnic conflicts, as well as to identify the effect of conflict onset…
August 2016 — This study provides a new lens for understanding labor market information systems (LMIS) and offers guidance for the focus and sequencing of investments in their development. We argue that traditional technical assistance to support LMIS in Africa has neither succeeded in improving the functioning of labor markets nor achieved sustainability of the systems…
March 2016 — This study presents an inventory of major international civil society networks working in the field of democracy and human rights, and explores ways international donors may support the work of these networks. The authors focused on networks with three characteristics: 1) membership consists of nongovernmental organizations, 2) members are drawn from more than one…