Monrovia - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announces the award of a $33.9M contract to Education for Development Center for the implementation of USAID’s new Accelerated Quality Education for Liberia (AQE) activity, which focuses on over-age and out-of-school learners whose education was disrupted by the prolonged civil crisis. In particular, AQE will use various interventions through an Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) to increase access to education for approximately 48,000 out-of-school children ages 8 to 15 in six targeted countries. ALP condenses six years of the primary education cycle into three years. It is expected that the implementation of the AQE activity will lead to the development of an ALP regulatory framework and increased eligibility of learners to transition to formal education. Education for Development Center, USAID’s implementing partner for the AQE activity, has significant experience implementing programs focused on using the accelerated learning approach to provide out-of-school youth with literacy and numeracy skills.

Source: Front Page Africa March 07, 2017 18:31 UTC