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 Designing Effective eVidence-Based Engagement and Learning for Organizational Performance (DEVELOP)
EnCompass, in partnership with our subcontractors Bixal and Knowledge Partners, is leading the Designing Effective eVidence-Based Engagement and Learning for Organizational Performance (DEVELOP) contract for USAID’s Center for Education. The DEVELOP team will serve as...
Mid-term Evaluation of the USAID/Mali Girls Leadership and Empowerment through Education (GLEE)
The USAID/Mali Girls Leadership and Empowerment through Education (GLEE) project aims to increase education access for adolescent girls by decreasing barriers to quality education, improving the safety of girls in school and their communities, and increasing the...
USAID Data and Evidence for Education Programs (DEEP) Activity
Through the Data and Evidence for Education Programs (DEEP) activity, EnCompass works with the USAID Office of Education in the USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment to improve the quality, relevance, availability, accessibility, and use of...
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...
Resource Guide for Gender Integration in Education Programming in Lebanon
In 2016 and 2017, EnCompass supported the USAID Performance Management and Support Program for Lebanon (PMSPL II) in conducting three education sector gender analyses across basic public education, higher education, and vocational training. This Resource Guide for...
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...