Note the items below looking at the impact of K-12 remote learning.
EDC Update / December 2022 / edc.org
2022 was a year of opportunity for us to make meaningful change, together.
Across the globe, EDC staff advanced sustainable solutions to health, education, and socioeconomic challenges. This year—as is true every year—our success relied on the strength and tenacity of partners who share our vision for a bright and equitable future.
In this annual issue of EDC Update, we highlight some of our collective work and impact. Please enjoy this look back as we move forward with hope for 2023 and beyond.
Addressing Mental Health and Well-Being
Compounding mental health crises continued in 2022, and EDC responded by launching our national How We Thrive campaign. Through How We Thrive, we raised awareness of the complex factors associated with mental health and well-being, advocated for increased investment, and called public attention to urgent action and solutions, such as the national mental health hotline’s transition to 988. We also continued sharing our insights on mental health in response to the events in the news, covering wide-ranging topics from cognitive biases in parents to climate anxiety in teens.
Tackling Learning Loss
One of the intersectional issues related to mental health and well-being is the impact of learning loss from the pandemic. This year, we provided valuable evidence and expertise to shed light on these challenges, sharing research into how summer learning programs might recover and providing insights into how the pandemic actually boosted accessibility for social and emotional skill-building. We also championed e-learning in our support of technical vocational education and training (TVET) students in Rwanda and advocated for strengths-based approaches to help schools reimagine teaching practices that would better address learning loss.
Overcoming Obstacles to Youth Employment
Across the world, youth continued to experience employment challenges in 2022. EDC worked to equip young people with relevant skills to improve access to livelihood opportunities or to build and sustain their careers. We aligned ourselves with USAID’s latest youth policy and empowered Rwandan youth with disabilities through greater access to skills training through our Umurimo Kuri Bose project (i.e., “Employment for All” in Kinyarwanda). Through the USAID/DRC Integrated Youth Development Activity, we provided opportunities for youth to access foundational literacy and soft skills as well as develop work readiness and entrepreneurship skills.
Promoting Literacy Around the Globe
This year, we continued to scale our successful work to foster literacy. We worked to provide classrooms with more books in students’ first languages through the Global Book Alliance. To that end, our work with the Selective Integrated Reading Activity in Mali helped primary school students improve their reading proficiency in Bamanankan, Mali’s most widely spoken first language. Through new publications and national presentations, EDC experts also provided insights on the impact of media literacy in the classroom, the importance of critical data literacy, and how educational television can teach young children more complex reading skills.
Building the Workforce of the Future
Are we adequately preparing our children for the careers of tomorrow? We continued seeking answers to this question, engaging communities to boost accessibility and training for the workforce of the future. In 2022, we launched the Our World, Our Work campaign—a 10-year initiative to accelerate youth employment in the green and blue economies. In addition, we published a new work on equity and the future of work, advocated for rural communities as vibrant engines for innovation and leveraged our long-standing expertise in STEM education. We also urged more investment in a better STEM career pipeline for women veterans and hosted the STEM-OPS Annual Convening, which gathered experts and justice-impacted communities to advocate for greater STEM training for incarcerated individuals.
Promoting Equity and Opportunity for All
Alongside our work to support a diverse and accessible workforce of the future, we continued our long-standing commitment to foster more evidence-based equitable opportunities in our partner communities. As part of that focus, we provided public health professionals with advice on conducting health surveys for LGBTQI+ youth and fostered conversations on the movement to decolonize mental health care. We also made a call-to-action for harnessing the strength and skills of adolescent girls around the world in the fight against climate change and shared the impact of our Beauty and Joy of Computing program, an introductory curriculum for students to envision a career path in computer science.
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