Global Reach

Latin America and the Caribbean

Creating basic education and workforce programs that chart a course for a better future
A young man in Honduras gets job training

In Honduras, EDC programs provide job training for hundreds of young people.

In collaboration with education and industry partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, EDC creates basic education and workforce development programs that are relevant and tailored to respond to community needs.

Our basic education programs use interactive audio instruction—a concept we pioneered—to reach learners in settings that are both remote and lacking in necessary resources. Our workforce development programs prepare young people for available market opportunities, and we design and implement evidence-based interventions to offer young people a new, more positive course.


Resources

Here are a few of our resources on Latin America and the Caribbean. To see more, visit our Resources section.
Toolkits
Expanding Access to Early Childhood Development: Using Interactive Audio Instruction

This toolkit provides program designers with information on how to develop and implement effective early childhood interactive audio instruction (IAI) programs in a range of settings.
Reports
Gender in Youth Livelihoods and Workforce Development Programs

This program note summarizes key gender issues in livelihoods and workforce development programs and discusses EQUIP3's approach to addressing gender, using examples from specific EQUIP3 youth projects to illustrate lessons learned.
Reports
Promising Youth Development Strategies: Community Youth Mapping

This document highlights lessons learned in implementing the youth mapping development model internationally.
Reports
Proyecto METAS: Employability Study

This Employability Study was conducted in Honduras to better understand the characteristics of those youth that are receiving the Career Readiness Certification (CRC) and to what extent youth have

Reports
Tuned in to Student Success: Assessing the Impact of IRI

This study reviews student assessment data collected from 15 EDC projects to determine the impact of interactive radio instruction (IRI) on student achievement in hard-to-reach areas.
Reports
A Model for Transforming the Honduran Workforce

This report details the work of EDC’s Proyecto METAS to improve education for employment, learning, and success in Honduras. Specific challenges to program implementation are discussed, as are innovative solutions.
Reports
Understanding Youth Crime and Violence in Honduras: Summary Report Findings

EDC’s Proyecto METAS conducted a survey in three at-risk urban communities in Honduras between March and May 2013.
Toolkits
Improving Education Quality through Interactive Radio Instruction

This guide provides an overview of IRI as a methodology, and discusses its feasibility and applicability in a range of contexts.
Toolkits
Learning at Home in Times of Crisis Using Radio

Interactive audio instruction (IAI) is a distance-learning technology that provides educational services, often to schools and school systems worldwide.
Reports
Multi-Level Participation: A Cross-Cutting Strategy to Empower Honduran Youth (METAS Learning Series)

Honduran youths have the ability to generate strategies that can solve problems in the national context.