Burma/Myanmar
Donor: USAID/Burma • Timeframe: August 2023 – January 2025
Terminated January 2025.
USAID Development & Inclusive Scholarship Program

The Development & Inclusive Scholarship Program seeks to support current and future community leaders of Myanmar to gain access to quality higher education (HE) learning opportunities by offering regional and local HE scholarships, grants under contract, and a variety of higher education opportunities via multimodalities that strengthen the HE landscape. Participants will earn higher education degrees, receive professional certifications, and/or gain access to contextualized HE curricula through short- and long-term training in Myanmar and throughout the following selected USAID-presence countries in the Asia region (Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand).
IDP will support cross-cutting programmatic areas related to ensuring that the Development & Inclusive Scholarship program approaches and activities are accessible for persons with disabilities. This includes providing technical assistance and training to program staff on topics around 508 compliance, conducting a Rapid Education and Risk Analysis (RERA), working with Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) staff to review indicators in the MEL plan, and providing targeted support to sub-grantees.
Project Highlights
- Lead RERA studies to inform development of Inclusive Development Action Plan (IDAP).
- Provide technical assistance, training, and mentorship to project team and grant partners.
- Support higher education institutions to utilize Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approaches.