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USAID GOAL:

Human capacity built through education and

training.

To achieve this strategic goal, USAID will emphasize expanding

access to high quality basic education, especially for girls and

women.

In addition, USAID will facilitate the responsiveness of

in country institutions of higher education through means such as

international institutional partnerships.

While not explicitly

identified in performance goals, the contribution of

comprehensive, high quality training and the powerful tools of

information and communication technologies    such as radio 

facilitated teaching and Internet based global discussions    are

important in the attainment of this and all other USAID goals.

These efforts, together with encouragement of equitable

enrollment policies, will serve to enhance the ability of in 

country institutions of higher education to respond to local and

national development needs.

In FY 1999, USAID will contribute to

human capacity development, particularly basic education for

children and higher education partnerships through 12 strategic

objectives in 12 countries and 10 global strategic objectives.

NOTE: Because this is one of the most recently articulated USAID

goals, performance goals and indicators within it continue to be

established and refined.

INDICATORS:

Net primary enrollment ratio

Difference between girls' and boys  gross primary enrollment

ratio

Percentage of cohort reaching grade five

Number of inter institutional partnerships formed.

PERFORMANCE GOALS AND REGIONAL EXPECTATIONS:

1.

Countries increase primary enrollment ratios fast enough to

attain full primary enrollment by 2015.

The goal reflects

USG commitment to the DAC target of full primary enrollment

by 2015.

Regional performance is assessed on the basis of

whether countries are increasing primary enrollment ratios

fast enough to meet this goal, if growth in enrollment

ratios continues at the current rate through 2015.

Analysis

indicates that improvements are likely in each region,

but

that several countries in each will still fall short of the

DAC target.