...6 – The Assessment of Learning Outcomes and Social Effects of Community-Based Education (ALSE) Research Project at New York University, operating in partnership with USAID, CRS, and CARE International, has released its Phase One Outcomes report on the assessment of learning outcomes and social effects on community-based education in Afghanistan. Fieldwork was conducted by ACSOR-Surveys in partnership with D3 Systems, Inc. The study found that offe...
...rveyed in the evaluation. The most important factor identified in determining school attendance is having a school located within reasonable walking distance of the home. These findings suggest that what is needed to achieve universal access to schools in Afghanistan is to expand the supply of schools. The report can be read and downloaded here. For more information, please visit the ALSE website....
...7 – The Assessment of Learning Outcomes and Social Effects of Community-Based Education (ALSE) Research Project at New York University, operating in partnership with USAID, CRS, and CARE International, has released a research brief on Community Capacity to Co-manage Primary Education. Research has found that the three institutions set up as part of the Afghan government’s Citizen’s Charter National Priority Program, Community Development Councils...
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...attached: 61% say they would support an agreement in which the government ceded control over certain provinces to the Taliban, while 36% said they would rather that the government continue fighting rather than make such concessions. The perception that the Taliban have not changed continues to become more prevalent among the Afghan public: 58% of respondents in 2014 say that the Taliban are the same as when they ruled Afghanistan, up from 54% in 2...
...in Afghanistan. These results are based on face-to-face interviews conducted by ACSOR March 10-18, 2014, among a random national sample of 2,643 Afghans age 18 and older. Interviews were conducted in Dari and Pashto in all 34 of the country’s provinces. Including design effects, results have a margin of sampling error of +/- 2.5 points for the full sample and +/- 4 points for the sample of 1,190 likely voters. These results were prepared for deli...
...ral, 18% urban – unweighted) aged 18 and over. [1] Total of two mentions. [2] “Statistics: Afghanistan,” UNICEF, December 18, 2013, http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/afghanistan_statistics.html. [3] Total of two mentions....
...ere both men (51%) and women (49%), aged 18 and over. The Survey has received much media coverage from outlets such as BBC and Radio Australia. A summary of results from the global study can be found on the WIN/GIA website. Tables for the full results from Afghanistan can be viewed here. Despite the challenges Afghanistan has faced in the past year, the Afghan people continue to be optimistic about the future of the country. The percentage of resp...
...age acceptance of girls attending school, Sesame Workshop recently introduced a new muppet named Zari. Prior to Zari’s introduction, Sesame Workshop partnered with ACSOR and D3 Systems, Inc. to test Zari’s appearance, likeability, and personality with Afghan children and their parents. A key objective of the testing was to confirm that Zari’s clothes are common in Afghanistan and culturally appropriate. In order to do this, ACSOR conducted five se...
...th sides of the border still frequently cross it to visit relatives, seek medical treatment, or seek refuge in times of violence. From the 1980s to the 2010s, millions of Afghans crossed into Pakistan to seek relative safety, but since 2014, many have been returned, sometimes voluntarily but often not. Although hundreds of small or informal border crossing sites exist along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the two largest and most important border...
