| Education Policy and Data Center
Associate Award
What are the existing and emerging education issues?
How do we design an excellent, effective education program to address them?
How do we monitor the performance of existing programs and targets?
How do we measure the cross-sectoral impact of education programs to motivate funding for our work?
These are frequently asked questions in the international education profession. To answer such questions professionals need to stop at one rich, comprehensive, flexible, and easily accessible source, preferably via the Internet. This source will provide comprehensive and valid information, evidence, analysis, and policy advice compiled from a wide range of sources, and at the geographical or policy level where programs are implemented. It will compliment existing international and national compilations and also link to them.
To meet the challenge of providing comprehensive data, the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, D.C. is developing an information system for international education. This system, called the Education Policy and Data Center (Center), will:
Assemble recent, detailed information from a wide range of sources, in an ongoing manner, through a formalized information network, and organize it to be accessible in layered fashion for decision makers, technical professionals, and researchers;
Build a comprehensive database from all of this information, that is easily and flexibly queriable, with special attention to sub-national and thematic presentation;
Summarize country-based information to alert decision makers to major sub-national or thematic issues and therewith potential program focus areas;
“Mine” existing sources for frequently requested information, profiles of underserved groups, emerging trends, cross-sectoral links.
Analyze data to develop simple, powerful models and understanding of education’s cross-sectoral development impacts and maturation patterns of education systems, presented in policy summaries and research papers;
Identify real remaining information gaps and mobilize resources to collect that information;
Publish an electronic journal focused on using information and evidence for program design and evaluation;
Network with the educational community through individual contacts, advisory board, workshops, conferences, and to promote the use of evidence and understanding in education programs and to receive continual feedback on frequently required information;
Train professionals in the collection, analysis and use of evidence for planning and evaluation.
Click here to link to the EPDC website: http://www.epdc.org
Phases of EPDC
Strategic Objective and Intermediate Results
Award Amount
$5,000,000.00
Award Duration
October 2004 - October 2009
USAID CTO
Elizabeth Apia, eapia@usaid.gov
For more information, contact:
George Ingram, gingram@aed.org
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