Phomdaen Souvanna is a senior researcher at AIR. She has over 10 years of experience conducting research and evaluations of social programs using experimental, non-experimental, and descriptive methods. Dr. Souvanna has content expertise in workforce development policies and programs, including career pathways, reemployment services, and job training for low-income adults ...
Pooja Reddy Nakamura has experience overseeing a portfolio of projects on foundational learning in over 20 countries. She focuses on understanding how early literacy is acquired in complex, multilingual contexts.
At AIR, Carol Pier co-leads a growing portfolio of international labor technical assistance programming, with projects in Mexico and Honduras. Over the course of her career, she has focused on advancing workers’ rights, acceptable conditions of work, living standards, and inclusive economic growth and development globally. ...
To become successful adults in a global 21st century, children and adolescents need a broad range of experiences to build their knowledge of the world and understand their place in it. AIR and the Asia Society offer a set of strategies and tools to help school leaders use the framework ...
AIR, as a sub-contractor to Catholic Relief Services, and funded by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food for Education project, is implementing the Foundational Literacy Improvement Package (FLIP) model in Lesotho over the course of five years (2022-2026).
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
This five-year project aimed to improve the quality and relevance of secondary education for Macedonian youths, to equip them with the skills and knowledge to succeed in a changing social and economic environment, and to provide the Macedonian economy with a more flexible, better-prepared workforce.
Through Full-Service Community Schools, students, their families, and the local community can receive academic, social, and health services, which can contribute to better educational outcomes for students. Starting in 2021, AIR will conduct an evaluation of the implementation of the FSCS initiative focusing on understanding implementation of the initiative and ...
Google for Education collaborated with research partner Canvas8 to conduct a study across 24 countries, interviewing experts on how and why they are rethinking the role of education. AIR served as an advisor and consultant to this research, which contains insights from interviews with 94 education thought leaders, including experts in ...
As part of the Humanitarian Education Accelerator work conducted for UNICEF, UNHCR, and FCDO, AIR conducted three impact and five process evaluations of education innovations in humanitarian contexts. Based on the expertise gained from this work, AIR partnered with the Journal of Development Effectiveness to develop a special issue on ...