Desde 2002, Afghanistan has made significant gains in education, from enrolling millions of girls in primary school to training teachers in updated curricula that included reading, matemáticas y ciencias.
Yet the education sector in Afghanistan continues to face significant challenges. un estimado 53 percent of Afghan youth ages 15 a 24 son analfabetos.
The Ministry of Education requires capacity building support to improve the quality of learning and literacy instruction for Afghan children.
The five-year Afghan Children Read program worked with the Ministry of Education to build and implement a sustainable, scalable and evidence-based national early grade reading program while strengthening the capacity of the ministry at all levels to scale up and sustain the model.
El programa fue financiado por los EE.UU.. Agencia para el Desarrollo Internacional e implementado por Creative Associates International.
The program’s learning laboratory piloted innovative and cost-effective approaches to create a model for a safe, inclusive and equitable learning environment that will support all children in Grades 1 a 3 in learning to read and write. This lab served as a platform to understand what approaches and strategies are showing successes and where challenges are confronted. Al hacerlo, it helped to inform and shape the early grade reading model to better fit the context and contours of Afghanistan.
Creative implemented the project with its partners, The International Rescue Committee, Equal Access y PLOMO SIL.