Global Projects

On a global level, we collaborate with international agencies, national governments, and local leaders to support the improvement of health and educational opportunities in communities around the world. Our public health and multichannel learning strategies foster whole-community approaches to children's healthy development by strengthening connections among parents, caregivers, teachers, health practitioners, and others.

Building Opportunity around the World

For young adults in EDC’s international workforce training programs, the results rarely go unnoticed—the proof is in the paychecks.

Just Back: Cornelia Janke

Cornelia Janke just returned from her 10th trip to Haiti, where EDC is working to improve job opportunities for youth. It’s an enormous challenge in a country with 70 percent unemployment.

Indonesia Kindergarten Program Expands

EDC is improving the quality of basic education across Indonesia by training kindergarten teachers to use Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI) .

Youth Produce a Lasting Impact

Community organizer Meera Devi (standing) leads a class in the village of Kuchhp

A Year after it ended, an EDC project in India that used tourism to engage youth in income-generating, health promoting, and community development activities, is continuing to have an impact.

Education for Sale

Corrupt educational practices can harm the quality of students’ education, the reputation of a country’s institutions of higher learning, and the preparedness of a nation’s workforce. EDC is addressing the issue in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Unmasking a Pandemic

EDC is making Botswana history by implementing the country’s first required HIV and AIDS awareness curriculum called Living: Skills for Life, Botswana’s Window of Hope.

Students Celebrate World Dictionary Day

EDC and its partners distributed nearly 50,000 free copies of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to classrooms in more than 700 elementary schools in the war-torn region of Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines.

EQUIP3/Haitian Out-of-School Youth Livelihood Initiative (IDEJEN)

IDEJEN is an EQUIP3 Associate Award which was launched in 2003 to provide education and job training for youth ages 15–24 with little to no formal education. IDEJEN provides program participants support in the areas of employability and skills training, basic and vocational education, job placement and small business development. In addition to working directly with youth, IDEJEN provides technical support to different government ministries and is assisting in the development of the National Youth Policy and the Policy on Nonformal Basic Education.

Malawi Interactive Radio Instruction (Tikwere!)

Malawi primary schools face issues of large classes, high repetition rates, and teachers who resort to lectures and other marginally effective rote learning techniques to teach crowded classrooms. The Malawi Tikwere! (Let’s go up!) program uses interactive radio instruction (IRI) broadcasts to address these issues and bring student-centered instruction to primary schools countrywide.

Global Workforce In Transition (GWIT)

Through the cross-sectoral Global Workforce in Transition (GWIT) initiative, EDC provides technical assistance to developing countries in linking workforce and economic development strategies to promote job creation and a more skilled workforce. It helps countries increase the relevance and responsiveness of their education and training systems to immediate and longer-term economic needs. Since its start in July 2002, GWIT has conducted labor market and competitiveness assessments, devised local workforce development plans, and evaluated workforce programs.