REACH India is staffed in-country by a small team of professionals from the fields of education, training, monitoring and evaluation, finance and communications. The New Delhi-based project office also draws on the expertise of its partner organizations: Juarez and Associates (for monitoring and evaluation), Michigan State University (MSU) (for communications and information technology) and World Education (for quality of education).

The program is being implemented under the auspices of the Educational Quality Improvement Program: Classrooms, Schools and Communities (EQUIP1).

For REACH India, AIR will be the lead implementing organization. Juarez and Associates will provide the technical leadership in research, monitoring and evaluation and World Education and Michigan State University will provide short-term technical assistance in the areas of capacity building and identified areas of need in service delivery such as teaching-learning strategies, curriculum and action research.

Besides this, partner NGOs are also expected to support each other through their core competencies and become resource centers for other NGOs. Further, we hope to create a larger network of NGOs beyond just our grantees by facilitating forums where NGOs can share their expertise with others doing similar work.

To know more about the agencies involved, click on the links below

EQUIP and EQUIP1
AIR
Juarez and Associates
World Education

EQUIP and EQUIP1

EQUIP is a combination of programs, processes, and activities that contribute to the Office of Education of USAID’s Pillar Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade by:

	Responding to a variety of capacity building and technical assistance needs;
	Developing innovative and effective approaches and analytic tools; and
	Establishing and sharing research, communication, and networking capacity.

This is accomplished through three distinct yet interrelated awards:

EQUIP1: Classrooms, Schools, Community;
EQUIP2: Policy, Systems, Management;
EQUIP3: Out-of-school Youth, Learning, Earning.

EQUIP1 is a multi-faceted program designed to raise the quality of classroom teaching and the level of student learning by effecting school-level changes. EQUIP1 serves all levels of education, from early childhood development for school readiness, to primary and secondary education, adult basic education, pre-vocational training, and the provision of life-skills.

As an EQUIP1 project, REACH India's staff can draw upon the collective experience and expertise of the four implementing agencies to design technical assistance programs that are customized and relevant to partner NGO needs and provide measurable impact.

To understand the individual expertise that each implementing organization brings to the table, take a look at the profiles of the four organizations involved in the REACH India project:

The American Institutes for Research (AIR)

The American Institutes for Research (AIR), founded in 1946, is an international leader in the behavioral and social sciences. AIR is a not-for-profit organization engaged in domestic and international research, development, evaluation, analysis, product development, training and technical assistance, and assessment.

AIR's International Program has worked during the past three decades in more than 80 countries to strengthen all components of education systems by implementing major initiatives in education reform, providing technical assistance to support bilateral and multilateral programs, conducting comparative assessments of student achievement, and facilitating strategic planning and technical support to USAID, OECD, UNESCO, and the World Bank.

Juarez and Associates

Juarez & Associates was founded in 1971 to provide consulting services and conduct problem-solving research from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. J&A provides research services that use the most effective qualitative and quantitative methods.

The firm targets underserved and hard-to-reach populations in the U.S. and worldwide, building democratic participation through knowledge utilization, measurement, and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. J&A has become recognized for expertise in a number of areas, including:

Program Review and Evaluation
Survey and Socio-cultural Research
Social Marketing
Human Resource Development
General Management

World Education



World Education is a nonprofit organization that provides training and technical assistance in non-formal education for adults and children, with special emphasis on girls' and women's education, community participation, building local school governance structures, field-based development of curricular materials, education in crisis and post-crisis situations and refugee education, literacy, linking non-formal and formal education, and customized education programs that address the needs of youth.

Currently, World Education provides technical assistance to various ongoing projects and activities in the US, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, China, Guinea Bissau, Namibia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.