Education

EnCompass helps clients embrace inclusion and accessibility to support girls’ access to education, improve reading outcomes in community schools, increase services for orphans and vulnerable children, build life skills for school-going youth, and address sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. Our participatory, appreciative processes support design, evaluation, and quality improvement processes that boost the effectiveness of education-focused programs. Our rigorous use of data helps clients draw cross-cutting learning from education interventions and engage in continuous quality improvement of their programs.

Trauma-Informed Approaches to Data Collection

This guidance on trauma-informed approaches to data collection is intended to serve as a resource for evaluators in the international development community. As EnCompass continues to gain experience with trauma-informed research and evaluation approaches in various...

USAID Africa Education Briefs

Accurate and reliable data are essential to support assessment of countries’ needs and progress toward targets and help decision makers prioritize needs and investments. EnCompass and MSI developed these evidence briefs through the USAID Data and Evidence for...

USAID, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) 7

Through this indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, EnCompass provides technical and advisory services for evaluation, evaluation capacity building, and performance monitoring to USAID at mission, bureau, and agency-wide levels. To support this...

ASPIRE in Malawi: Stakeholder Briefing

This briefing was prepared by the EnCompass team for stakeholders of the Malawi Girls’ Empowerment through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE) to review findings of the performance evaluation.

ASPIRE Performance Evaluation, Annex 8: Evaluation Tools

The Malawi Girls’ Empowerment through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE) is a 4-year, $16.2 million, USAID activity implemented by Save the Children and three partners designed to support the Government of Malawi to improve girls’ achievement in upper primary and...

Evaluation of USAID ASPIRE Activity in Malawi

EnCompass conducted an external performance evaluation of The Malawi Girls’ Empowerment through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE), a 4-year USAID activity implemented by Save the Children. ASPIRE, which began in 2014, aims to improve girls’ academic...