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Overview of the Education Policy and Data Center
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Vision: Improved school access and learning for all children through evidence-based education policies and programs
Mission: Enhanced access, presentation, and use of education information and analysis for evidence-based policies and programs.
Functions
- Provide ready access to current, comprehensive education data for policy making and program management
- Provide policy analysis and research focused on key issues in education
- Build partnerships and networks to promote the use of education information for policy-making and program management
Audience
- Governments, international organizations, donor agencies, NGOs, foundations, development organizations, corporations, and individuals involved in providing and improving education in developing countries
Assets
- Data: EPDC maintains a global, multi-source database of national and sub-national education and related indicators
- Presentation: EPDC provides tools – graphs, charts, education pyramids – that permit a range of users to better understand and analyze data
- Analysis: EPDC provides analytic tools – projections, rapid assessment calculator – and reports on important education issues
- Access: The EPDC data and tools are available on-line and accessible through a flexible, user-responsive reporting software
- Expertise: EPDC staff possess extensive knowledge and practical experience with education and education data
- Partners: EPDC has developed relations with key partners that provide critical opportunities for networking and collaboration
- Capacity Building: EPDC builds training programs in response to demand for enhanced skills in the use of evidence for planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Goals
EPDC to be:
- globally accessible source of national and sub-national education data
- best source of tools for transforming data into information and knowledge
- resource for quality, independent, policy-relevant analysis and research
- resource for expertise on education data, projections, and analysis
- EPDC engages with key partners in order to assess the demand and need for data and analysis and to help direct the deployment of our resources: USAID, AED, World Bank, UNESCO, UIS, DFID, Center for Global Development, EFA Fast Track Initiative, EFA Global Monitoring Report
Advisory Council
- Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development
- David Bloom, Harvard University
- Joel Cohen, Columbia and Rockefeller Universities
- Luis Crouch, Research Triangle International
- Charles Kolb, Committee for Economic Development
- Hendrik Van Der Pol, UNESCO Institute of Statistics
- Robert Prouty, World Bank
Staff
Staff Contact Information
- George M. Ingram – Executive Director
- Babette Wils – Research Director
- Karima Barrow – Data Analyst (on leave)
- Ania Chaluda – Research Associate
- Joseph Goodfriend – Research Associate
- HyeJin Kim – Research Associate
- Sarah Oliver – Web and Report Developer
- Benjamin Sylla – Research Associate
1825 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
www.epdc.org
Tel – 202 884 8923
Fax – 202 884 8466
Email – EPDC@aed.org
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