Lifelong learning is a human self-driven motivation that reaches all aspects of life
, enhancing social inclusion, autonomy and responsible citizenship, competitiveness, employability, personal development and a sense of wellbeing. It is not confined to formal education but occurs on an ongoing basis. In a modern society, lifelong learning also rests with persons having appropriate and complex enough reading skills. The project’s aim is to impact both learning to read and reading to learn.
The USAID/Guatemala Lifelong Learning Education Project builds upon gains made in the last decade through the J&A/USAID/Ministry of Education partnerships in the Education Reform in the Classroom project (2009 – 2013), the Education Standards and Research Program (2005-2009), and previous programs of the USAID/Guatemala Better Educated Rural Society Strategy (1999-2004) to enhance equitable access to quality intercultural bilingual education. As a result, significant advances in Guatemalan education have been made in curriculum policy, teacher training, applied research, monitoring and evaluation, information technology and improved classroom management as well as systems to promote transparency and accountability through the public education system.
