Systems and stakeholder empowerment for sustainability

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Tuesday VI)
  In Refereed Round-Table Session: Pathways to self-reliance and sustainability: reflections from USAID program implementation

Proposal

Dr. Rachel Christina leads the International Basic Education and Literacy team at Education Development Center (EDC), where she advances EDC’s signature Read Right Now literacy program for low-resource environments; Start Right Now integrated early childhood approach; foundational critical thinking skills packages for mathematics, science, and social-emotional learning; and accelerated education programming. Dr. Christina has worked for more than 25 years in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the United States on a range of research, design, and evaluation programs related to improving educational quality, and has a particular interest in system building and stakeholder empowerment to sustain and scale education reforms. For this panel, she will draw on EDC’s experience facilitating long-term systemic changes in support of educational quality and self-reliance in Mali, the Philippines, Zambia, Liberia, and Zanzibar, with particular attention to building internal appetite for and commitment to incremental, long-term transformation of education programming

Author

• Rachel Christina, Education Development Center (EDC)