Division Director - Janet Robb
AIR’s International Development Division seeks to enhance the capacity of developing countries to improve their quality of life through education and social development. In collaboration with local partners we seek to:
- Ensure children’s equitable access to all levels of education;
- Improve the quality and relevance of education; and
- Empower individuals, communities, and institutions as agents of social and behavioral change.
In pursuit of these objectives, AIR has worked in more than 80 countries over the past three decades, strengthening national education systems, increasing the involvement of communities in local schools, improving the quality of teaching and learning, developing new techniques for assessing student performance, increasing access for both girls and boys, accelerating educational reform, improving information systems, slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS through behavior change, and reducing the incidence of child labor.
In partnership with others, we have:
- Developed and implemented low-cost learning and assessment systems;
- Strengthened host country qualitative and quantitative research skills;
- Streamlined management information systems;
- Developed indicators to measure progress in the education sector;
- Pioneered education systems such as low-cost learning (“LCL”) linkages in learning sequences and the application of continuous assessment in developing country settings;
- Developed and implemented professional development programs for teachers;
- Facilitated the development of contextually-based curriculum materials;
- Mobilized communities;
- Strengthened educational systems;
- Pioneered new techniques such as action-based research at the local level; and
- Facilitated the exchange of knowledge among diverse educators and stakeholders in local, regional, national, and international gatherings.
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