For more than a decade, efforts to reform education in Haiti have been constrained by a lack of in-depth information on classroom conditions. As the donor community and the government began a new series of educational initiatives, the need for empirical data was greater than ever. To address this need, IEQ has worked on a study of educational quality in Haitian primary schools.
The IEQ study examined the conditions for teaching and learning with sixteen Haitian primary schools participating in the USAID sponsored Education 2004 project. IEQ collaborated with the Foundation of Haitienne de l'Enseignment Prive (FONHEP) to design a data collection strategy and to train researchers in data collection and analysis methods.