Carina Omoeva

FHI 360, Washington DC, United States · Research and Evaluation; Global Education, Employment and Engagement

Two case studies of parenting programs, aiming to improve parenting practices and child development outcomes, and implemented by Save the Children/Ministry of Health/Khesar Gyalpo University in Bhutan and Boston College/University of Rwanda/FXB in Rwanda, respectively called Prescription to Play and Sugira Muryango, were conducted by an independent...

We developed and evaluated the YouthPower Action Youth Soft Skills Assessment (YAYSSA), a self-report soft skills measure. The YAYSSA targets 15- to 19-year-old youth in lower resource environments. In Study 1, we identified 16 key constructs based on a review of those associated with positive youth outcomes in sexual and reproductive health, viole...

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to family life, society and essential health and other services. A rapid review of evidence was conducted to examine emerging evidence on the effects of the pandemic on three components of nurturing care, including responsive caregiving, early learning, and safety and security. Desig...

This paper provides a methodological framework to measure and analyze educational resource allocation within and across systems and ascertain potential equity implications. The proposed approach employs an outputs-driven method to provide a snapshot of the equitable distribution of key educational resources available in relation to student populati...

This article investigates the relationship of early marriage to school participation and whether other factors, including individual or family characteristics and childbirth, moderate the relationship. It uses national household survey data for Eastern Africa, pooled at the regional level. Overall, findings confirm that marriage and schooling appea...

The promise of public education is in expanding opportunity and accelerating pathways for individuals regardless of their background, physical ability, or place of residence. This promise drives SDG 4: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all", which has galvanized governments and donors around equity, and pushed the education comm...

This paper demonstrates that education can be an effective policy instrument to mitigate economic inequality among marginalized gender and identity groups in developing countries. We characterize the disparities in economic opportunity between gender, identity (ethnic or religious), and gender-by-identity groups in relation to disparities in educat...

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has embarked on extensive reforms aimed at promoting social cohesion, including progressive educational finance policy (e.g., the no-fee school policy) intended to redress historical inequalities. Because improving equality in and through education is vital to social cohesion, this case study examines whethe...

This report examines the nature and extent of support for teacher professionalism using the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013, a survey of teachers and principals in 34 countries and economies around the world. Teacher professionalism is defined as the knowledge, skills, and practices that teachers must have in order to be eff...

This report, commissioned by UNICEF, sought to answer the question: Are countries where some ethnic or religious groups have systematically lower levels of education more likely to experience civil conflict than those where all groups have equal access to school? Findings from the study show that in most recent years, countries with higher levels o...