| EQUIP2/Yemen Basic Education Support and Training (BEST) Project
On September 30, 2007, USAID/Yemen and the Academy for Educational Development (AED) entered into an Associate Award (EQUIP2 Cooperative Agreement No. 279-A-00-07-00092-00) to launch the Basic Education Support and Training (BEST) Project. BEST builds on the learning and success of the four-year Basic Education (BE) Project implemented under Educational Quality Improvement Program LWA 1 (EQUIP1). The BE Project emphasized interventions that are especially intended to generate synergies around the targeted schools through activities such as infrastructure renovation, adult literacy support, teacher professional development and community participation. BEST is designed to be particularly attuned to replicating strategies proven under BE to improve girls’ access to quality education and increase the supply and retention of qualified female teachers while contributing to the analysis of relevant policies within the Ministry of Education (MOE) that affect the conditions of girls, boys and educators throughout the education system.
BEST Goal: To strengthen the capacity of communities, schools and the Ministry of Education to sustain educational improvements for their children and their children’s children.
BEST Objectives:
- To enhance the capacity of targeted MOE units at all levels to support educational improvement consistent with the national decentralization policy;
- To expand work on improvement of education management and information systems (EMIS), learning environments, teacher training, mothers’ and fathers’ councils (MFCs), learning materials and adult literacy in the schools and communities;
- To develop, with the MOE, a community school policy to address the issue of parity between boys’ and girls’ enrollment and retention in schools; and
- To support development of policies and actions that result in recruitment and retention of female teachers.
EQUIP2 Partners
Academy for Educational Development (AED)
Award Amount
$20,000,000
Award Duration
September 2007 – December 2012
Chief of Party
Ernest D. O’Neil, Ph.D., eoneil@aed.org
USAID CTO
Abdulhamid N. Alajami, alajamian@state.gov
For more information, contact:
Ibrahim Sharqieh, isharqieh@aed.org
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