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Last spring, USAID’s 2021 CLA Case Competition reviewed 80 qualifying case studies that explore ways USAID staff and partners use CLA approaches to achieve better development outcomes. This fall, they announced the winners and finalists.Read more

Our field knows that girls across the globe have greater difficulty than boys in accessing quality education. Today’s International Day of the Girl—commemorated with the theme Digital Generation. Our Generation.—highlights the technological gender gap. Girls have more difficulty accessing the internet, using and owning fewer devices, and are less likely to pursue careers in tech.1Read more

The occasion of International Literacy Day 2021 and its theme “Literacy for a human-centred recovery: Narrowing the digital divide” gives the global community an opportunity to reflect on COVID-19’s impact on our goals of quality education and universal literacy—particularly for those facing intersecting disadvantages, such as girls. The generation of gender-integrated data can play aRead more

STS remains one of USAID’s largest providers of EGRAs and EGMAs. At the same time, recent work has allowed us to couple our student assessments with qualitative research services to understand the “whys” and “hows” of trends in education.Read more

Earlier this month STS joined with the FHI 360, Juarez and Associates, and RTI International to share our experiences learning and adapting on reading programs during COVID-19.Read more

All children deserve a quality education, and STS is committed to creating evaluations that empower programs to meet every students’ needs. Below are two case studies about some of our recent work focused on gender and social inclusion.Read more

All children deserve a quality education, and we are committed to creating evaluations that empower programs to meet all students’ needs.Read more

Even the most promising interventions are limited if they fail to achieve sustainability. Last year, STS used results of our monitoring and evaluation research to advise on program design to ensure greater sustainability and scalability.Read more

At STS, we often think of our expertise falling into one of four buckets: Research and Evaluation, Curriculum and Training, Planning and Policy, & Integrated Approaches to Education.Read more

Over the past few years, STS has increased its focus on numeracy work.Read more