$90.6M in expenses

International Development Division (IDD): A. IDD Strategy Work: The IDD team continued to pursue new challenges in 2024, and continued to work on three IDD Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) initiatives, as well as other technical ideas and our normal project work. This year, EDC launched its updated strategic vision and four "ambitions" to better communicate and present EDC's work to different audiences. In 2024, IDD worked to ensure that we communicate about our work through our updated strategic vision and related ambitions. The three SIF initiatives, which we have continued to invest in over the past couple of years are: 1. World Out Work (OWOW) to promote the development of green and blue jobs for youth; 2. Inspiring Climate Action Now (ICAN) which is focused on testing IDD's early grade science and climate education work; 3. Mental Health Now IDD worked in 2024 on the digitization and piloting of the mental health curriculum developed in FY22 for youth. IDD has developed cross cutting and integrated workplans for FY24 focused on the above three areas, in addition to the usual technical team, portfolio and working group workplans. OWOW is the most mature of these initiatives and has had considerable success over the course of 2024. ICAN gained momentum going into the year 2024 and culminated with the pilot testing of the materials in the spring and summer, in Zambia, Mali, Antigua and Barbuda. The digitization process for the MHFA curriculum involved creating audit and video materials to engage youth in managing their own mental health and dealing constructively with adversity, anxiety, depression, etc. The programs are also designed to assist facilitators i delivering the curriculum in an entertaining and interactive manner. In addition to pursuing the above signature initiatives, relating to technical teams, portfolios and working groups, IDD continued to build our core areas of strength in 2023, including in early childhood development, adolescent girls and young women, youth skilling curricula (Future Proof Skills) for TVET and post-secondary education, educator workforce preparation, accelerated education, learning and school safety, comprehensive adolescent sexuality and its work on social and institutional resiliency. IDD also continued to focus on core areas of locally led development, gender and engaging the private sector in 2023. All of these areas are part of IDD's three-year strategic plan (2023-2025). Below, is a description of the work of IDD's technical teams in calendar year 2024. IDD's Health Technical Team works to improve heath knowledge, behaviors, and outcomes for children, adolescents, and young adults and their families and communities. We support Ministries and schools to deliver sexuality education and HIV and gender-based violence prevention curricula, and implement our sexual-reproductive health, gender, and GBV prevention package, Foundations of Health, for out-of-school youth. We create school- and community-based systems to link children and youth to health and social services, strengthen support for children and adolescents living with HIV and their families to improve treatment outcomes, and build capacity of health and social service workers and local NGOs to improve the provision of quality, coordinated care. We are also integrating mental health skill-building, psychosocial support, and safety and child protection initiatives into our programming to improve the well-being of children and youth across our programs. EDC's Youth and Workforce Development Team (YWD) is active in developing, refining and promoting a variety of initiatives including its Work Ready Now (WRN!)suite of programs, its Be Your Own Boss (BYOB) initiative targeted toward helping youth open small business, its Future Proof Skills (FPS) curriculum aimed to enhance practical work readiness and economic development training in institutions of higher education, such as Universities and post-secondar Technical and Vocational Schools. The Youth team has developed a Higher Education Strategy document to guide the use of FPS. IDD's International Basic Education Team works to enhance foundational skills for children and youth in formal schooling contexts and in accelerated and alternative learning environments. IBE projects improve the quality of reading, math, science, and social and emotional learning by training educators, improving teaching and learning materials, supporting evidence-based changes in education policy, working with higher education programs to prepare teachers more effectively, and mobilizing communities as supporters of educational change. IBE and CCV also focus on helping administrators and teachers create safe and inclusive learning environments. IDD's Crisis Conflict and Violence Team supports projects in difficult contexts to build individual, community and systemic resilience, using a "do no harm" approach. CCV contexts vary greatly. In the photo on the left, there is a shot of a university administrator in Beirut, who works with EDC's HECD project to assist universities to build job readiness skills and resilience among students in a fragile and volitale context. On the right, a young mother attends an IDD youth empowerment workshop in South Sudan aimed at helping youth cope with the difficult conditions of daily life and build skills for the future. The Learning Generation Initiative (LGI), formerly the Education Commission, continues to be integrated into EDC. The LGI's updated mission is to empower the people within and connected to education systems to enable all children to be learning within a generation, by focusing on three areas of transformation: (1) strengthening and creating a more collaborative education workforce; (2) increasing effective investment in school health and nutrition; and (3) improving system delivery. The picture on the left shows a local school feeding program in Ghana. B. IDD Communications With the release of its Transform Together strategic vision, EDC has an inspiring new platform for telling our story. Our four bold ambitions convey the impact we seek to have and support efforts to expand funding for our programmatic priorities. Our Strategic Vision introduces four ambitions-outcomes of the pursuit of our vision, purpose and approaches to transformation. While these ambitions have a new and fresh articulation in the strategic vision, they are not new. They are squarely in the project and technical areas in which we have been working and excelling for so long: youth and workforce development, international basic education, health and crisis conflict and violence as well as MEL. These ambitions reach across our cross-cutting working group areas: locally led development, gender, inclusion and private sector engagement as well as technology are integral to each of these ambitions. The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Conference is the one time during the year that international education researchers, funders, and implementers come together to share their work. It is a major communications effort for EDC. EDC had over 20 presentations at the conference in March. IDD continues to raise EDC's public profile by increasing and tracking external placements of EDC in international news. In 2024, IDD continued a pilot collaboration with bird,a news agency with many networks, whose stories get picked up locally, regionally, and globally. Their mission is to identify and publicize positive narratives, with an emphasis on gender and inclusion, and thus shift narratives that appear in the press on Africa. We will pilot this collaboration in two countries this year to assess if it really ramps up our impact storytelling. IDD also had strong performance in Q4 in terms of publications and social media for profile raising/publications. C. New Awards in 2024: USAID Malawi Tisamale Mabuku Project (TMP), LGI Sierra Leone Secondary Education Improvement Programme((, Bank of America-Virtual First Job 4.0, OASIS Advancing Learning Outcomes in Africa (OLOA). D. Selected IDD Projects The USAID Kenya Primary Literacy Program is a five-year initiative that supports the Kenyan Ministry of Education to deliver interventions at scale as well as pilot and expand innovations that address the language and literacy needs of primary grade learners while building more inclusive, accountable, and resilient education institutions and systems. The project is nationwide and focused primarily on grades one through three. EDC will lead the Kenya Primary Literacy Program team, comprised of the Aga Khan Foundation, Inclusive Development Partners, National Opinion Research Center and Sesame Workshop. Bridget Drury is the home office Project Director. The $3 million USAID Jamaica Youth Empower Activity (EMPOWER), is an initiative designed to foster sustainable development and positive growth for Jamaica's most at-risk youth.

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U.S. Division: In 2024, EDC's U.S. Division conducted research, delivered services, and scaled successful programs focused on equity in education, health, mental health, and economic opportunity. The U.S. Division also produced over 100 articles, chapters, curricula, reports, fact sheets, and other educational materials and presented at over 200 events. * Nationwide, leaders turned to EDC for credible, up-to-date research and resources on effective strategies to improve education, workforce development, health services, and mental health services-as well as support in using data to guide improvements. EDC continued our 16 years of leading the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands for the Institute of Education Sciences, partnered with two other Regional Educational Laboratories, and led multiple research and evaluation studies that addressed high-priority education topics for our nation. For example, for the Board on Science Education, an EDC team conducted a landscape analysis for the new report Scaling and Sustaining Pre-K-12 STEM Innovations. * EDC continues to be a leader in suicide prevention. Our leadership of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, Zero Suicide Institute at EDC, Suicide Prevention Resource Center, and Community-Led Suicide Prevention initiative helped improve outcomes for millions of people at risk of suicide. To date, over 110,000 practitioners have completed EDC's Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk training. EDC also supported the national roll-out of the new 9-8-8 hotline for behavioral health crises and launched an online resource based on the Suicide Care Collaborative Outcome and Improvement Innovation Network that we established in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts. * EDC was selected to lead two major initiatives focused on improving scientific literacy. NASA chose EDC to co-lead the global implementation office for its Global Learning and Observations to Address the Environment (GLOBE) program. Around the world, GLOBE works to increase scientific understanding of the Earth, support improved student achievement in science and math, and promote citizen science. The Institute of Education Sciences and National Science Foundation chose EDC to lead a newly established national research and development center to address the need for high-quality science instruction and assessment for elementary school students. * EDC built upon and expanded its work to improve the quality of life for older people. In one of our initiatives supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation, EDC's National Dementia Care Collaborative worked to improve access to evidence-based, comprehensive dementia care. This work has included EDC leading two national summits and developing the Dementia Care Improvement Instrument to help health systems, clinicians, and community-based organizations in their efforts to improve dementia care. The tool provides real time recommendations about which evidence-based comprehensive dementia care programs are most relevant to an organization's needs and helps users think through implementation barriers and facilitators. * EDC launched its work on a project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The National Defense Education Program (NDEP) builds capacity to foster high school students' civic and STEM literacy. The work responds to the urgent need to improve youth civic literacy and workforce preparedness and features the five-module Supporting Readiness through Vital Civic Empowerment curriculum that EDC developed and tested with 18 schools in 15 states in a previous NDEP grant. In this work, EDC is developing several tools for national dissemination-including a toolkit and professional learning materials-and is focusing on creating structures to sustain support for teachers and learning for students after the project ends. * EDC led and co-led several national and regional technical assistance centers that advance substance misuse prevention. These include the Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center, the Center for Strategic Prevention Support,the Behavioral Health Excellence Technical Assistance Center, and two Prevention Technology Transfer Centers. Through EDC Solutions, EDC provided training and consultation to behavioral health professionals. In addition, EDC developed five new guides that support implementation of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's resource Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students. EDC also addressed co-occurring behavioral health challenges such as digital wellness and problem gambling through the fee-for-service platform of EDC's Prevention Solutions and through the Massachusetts Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling Prevention. * EDC delivered academic, mental health, school health, and behavioral health support through the Education & Wellbeing suite of training and consultation services for preK-secondary school education systems. EDC helped teachers, support staff, and administrators build and sustain strong multi-tiered systems of support to ensure youth acquire the durable skills needed for workplace success, improve academic outcomes, and proactively enhance mental health and wellness. As part of this work we delivered multiple online events, published resources, and led a school-based mental health and suicide prevention initiative in Indiana that reached an estimated 35,000 students in 12 school districts by the end of 2024. * EDC continued its innovative work to improve STEM learning and workforce development for all. We led two national centers, STEM Learning and Research Center (STELAR) and Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE), that we have operated for decades. To date, STELAR has helped NSF researchers reach over 1.5 million students, 63,000 teachers, and 20,000 parents and caregivers. We grew our Rural & Ready STEM initiative, and we led a large and strategic stream of work focused on providing youth with the fundamental skills they need to pursure careers in data science and computer science. We also hosted a two-day national convening of economists, scientists, K-12 formal and informal education leaders, industry leaders, community leaders, government leaders, and philanthropic leaders to identify strategies to fill the skyrocketing numbers of unfilled sustainability jobs and ensure all U.S. youth have the skills and knowledge they need to pursue these jobs. * EDC advanced multiple U.S. initiatives focused on improving the quality and accessibility of out-of-school time programs. We continued leading the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment that we have operated for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for nine years, delivering dozens of trainings and developing resources to support out-of-school time providers. EDC also continued our leadership of the Collaborative for Advancing Health Equity in Out-of-School Time. Funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, this initiative supports data-driven decision-making and the effective implementation of evidence-based policies and practices to address urgent youth health issues such as obesity and diabetes. * EDC led multiple initiatives focused on improving mathematics learning including Math For All, Young Mathematicians, and Math+C. Young Mathematicians works with teachers, preschoolers, and families from early childhood programs and has reached over 5,000 children and families to date. Math For All makes high-quality mathematics accessible to all elementary school students, including those with disabilities, and has reached over 19,000 students to date. In 2024, we received funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Innovation and Research program to expand Math For All to schools in five states, reaching 44,800 students in Grades 3 through 6. * EDC continued its role as the Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Program Office, supporting the Amgen Foundation in strengthening its innovative high school science education program and scaling it to more sites. ABE is now available in 27 program sites in 16 countries. To date, the program has reached over 1,000,000 students across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia Pacific in 1,800 schools supported by 3,500 teachers. * EDC expanded its innovative work to support children and families. For the Health Resources and Services Administration, we led five national initiatives focused on strengthening home visiting services and continued our 32 years of leading the Children's Safety Network. For the Office of Head Start, we led the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety. With partners across the U.S., EDC continued to grow its First 10 initiative, which focuses on advancing school-community partnerships that improve outcomes for children from birth to age 10. To date, first 10 has supported over 60 communities in seven states.