Projects Overview
The work of the Global
Learning Group includes projects in basic education, public health, the environment, and
the building of democracy and civil society. GLG staff offer skills in research and
evaluation, organizational development, instructional systems design, information and
communication technologies, and human resource training.
Examples
of some our current projects:
- strengthening the capacity of non-governmental organizations in
Russia to provide more effective community--based services to meet
the needs of youth
- helping U.S. Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs) design and implement
new management strategies that enable them to carry out their missions
more effectively
- working with the Ministry of Education in Ghana to develop more
effective strategies for involving parents and communities in strengthening
primary school education
- assisting the U.S. National Council of Economics Education, by evaluating
the impact of its program to teach principles of market economics
in Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States
- developing a new global curriculum framework for the International
Committee of the Red Cross, which will help young people in conflict
situations learn about the principles of humanitarian law
- helping the Government of Mali develop and implement a new multi-sector
"youth strategy"
- helping the United Nations develop a new global initiative aimed
at ending violence against women
- coordinating an electronic network and list serve for the Global
Knowledge for Development (GKD) Group
- building a Web-based knowledge resource of the GKD messages
- assisting with the development of a new U.S. organization--the National
Schoolgrounds Alliance--that is working to transform traditional school
yards into learning environment
- researching the impact of quality school grounds on learning outcomes.
(for research results please click here)
The Global Learning Group is home to several EDC Centers
of Excellence that serve as focal points for specific strands of
our work. For example, the Center for Innovative Management Technology
(CIMT) carries out research and development projects that involve cutting
edge social sector applications of information and communication technologies;
while the Center for Organizational Learning and Development
designs strategies and tools that strengthen the capacity of client
organizations in government, industry, and the non-governmental sector.
We also are engaged in a new effort to launch a Center of Best Practice
that will service the learning needs of students, teachers, and communities
in New York City.
The Global Learning Group also helps facilitate the interface
between EDC's U.S. and international work. The GLG manages several large-scale
EDC international projects that draw upon the expertise of our colleagues
working on U.S.- based activities; and, conversely, we also promote
the use of lessons learned from EDC's international experience to strengthen
our work in the United States.
Read descriptions
of all of the current projects of the Global Learning Group
