USAID’s flagship Gateway to Education program supported a stronger, resilient education system that provided quality formal education. This five-year educational project supported safe and equitable access to education; improvements in teaching and learning materials and classroom practices; upgraded facilities and more educational supplies; and stronger institutional support for the education system.
Activities targeted vulnerable households through remedial education, female empowerment through the formation of girls’ clubs and student government in schools, increased access for children with disabilities through the provision of adaptive technologies and better teacher competencies through training.
With Save the Children as the lead implementer, Creative worked together with the Education Ministry to revise and develop literacy and numeracy curriculum, textbooks, and training guides for first through third grades, coupled with the related in-service teacher training program. Creative also worked on a variety of system strengthening activities focusing on institutional capacity development, human resource management systems, and teacher professional development plans.
The Gateway team made considerable progress in early grade curriculum review and development process. The team developed training of master trainers to support the quality of teaching and learning in schools at the national and sub-national levels. Creative also conducted an evidence-based integrated approach to address institutional and personnel gaps in delivery of functional, safe and inclusive education, governance, and administrative components of Yemen’s basic education system.
