The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with the Ghana Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to launch the Partnership for Education: Learning activity. This initiative aims to improve early grade literacy among over 2 million children in Ghana. The program aligns with Ghana's basic education priorities and seeks to enhance both literacy and numeracy skills.
The five-year partnership involves collaboration with FHI360 to improve reading performance for primary school learners nationwide, particularly focusing on children from kindergarten 1 through grade 3. The initiative will work on enhancing teaching excellence in early grade reading, supporting educational systems to maintain reading outcomes, and engaging communities and parents in promoting reading.
Learning is part of USAID’s integrated Partnership for Education Project. It supports the MOE's efforts in child literacy improvement alongside other activities such as Evaluating Systems, which focuses on monitoring and evaluation systems strengthening, and Testing, which assesses students' reading and mathematics performance through various assessments.
USAID is a U.S. Government agency dedicated to ending extreme global poverty and fostering resilient democratic societies since 1961. It has supported countries like Ghana by increasing food security, improving health care access, enhancing quality education access, and strengthening local governance.