USAID-funded Pakistan Reading Project

The USAID-funded Pakistan Reading Project (PRP), implemented by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and its partners (Creative Associates International, World Learning, and Institute of Rural Management), is a five-year project with the objective to support the provincial and regional departments of education (DoE) throughout Pakistan to improve reading skills of children in grades one and two. The project will achieve this goal through three distinct but interrelated components that will work in synergy to affect the quality of early grade education: improved classroom learning environment for reading, improved policies and systems for reading, and community based support for reading in Pakistan. The project is improving the quality of teaching and assessment of reading by supporting improvements to teachers pre-service education, providing a model for continuous professional development for in-service teachers, and making supplemental instructional materials more widely av...