The Basic Education Coalition invites you to join the implementing partner community for an engaging virtual launch event for the USAID Education Progress Report. The event will highlight the key findings of the report and feature a panel discussion across stakeholders on international basic education programming guided by the 2018 USAID Education Policy. 

Tentative Agenda

• Welcome (Nancy Devine, Co-Chair of BEC Board of Directors; Senior Vice President and Director of International Development Division at EDC)

• USAID Overview of Progress Report (LeAnna Marr, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator
  Acting U.S. Senior Coordinator for International Basic-Education Assistance, USAID)

• Panel Discussion on Basic Education programming guided by the USAID 2018 Education Policy
  Facilitator: Candace Debnam, Co-Chair of BEC Board of Directors; Executive Director of School-to-School International
  Panelists:

  • Amy Bernath, Acting Director, Education Practice, IREX

  • Julee Allen, Director, Global Education, FHI 360

  • Lubov Fajfer, Senior Education, Gender, and Vulnerable Groups Advisor, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, USAID

  • Michael C. Lisman, Ed.D., Team Lead, Education, Office of Regional Sustainable Development, Bureau for Latin America & the Caribbean, USAID

  • Rina Dhalla, Education Team Leader, Middle East Bureau, USAID

• Q&A

• Closing Remarks