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.

TEACH-VIP E-Learning

TEACH-VIP is a comprehensive violence and injury prevention and control curriculum, developed by the World Health Organization and a global network of experts, covering a wide range of topics, designed to be delivered as face-to-face training. To make this curriculum more widely available, EDC created an instructional design approach for conversion of the face-to-face exercises and materials into an electronic, self-paced format with interactive lessons for the World Wide Web and CD-ROM.

EDC Expands Youth Education Work to Liberia

EDC is leading a project aimed at improving education and skills training for young people, ages 10–35, in Liberia.

Secretary of State Clinton Visits EDC Project in the Philippines

In the blog Worldly Boston, EDC’s book fair in the Philippines is lauded by Hillary Clinton.

Secretary of State Clinton Opens EDC Book Fair in the Philippines

Hillary Clinton praises partnership helping Filipino schools recover from last month’s typhoon.

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

Audio lessons are transforming classrooms in Indonesia.

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

Youth in Azerbaijan taking part in a workshop on corruption

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

Botswana’s first national response to HIV and AIDS focuses on educating teachers

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.

Building Opportunity around the World

In Timor-Leste, youth have opened kiosks in the market or pursued training such

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