While sustainability efforts of a large USAID education program in Egypt were already lagging, the 2025 dissolution of USAID meant that the limited oversight ceased completely, leaving individual schools without a centralized support structure.
Date: 3/26
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Country: Egypt
Topic: Education
Policy Lens: Economic & Trade Interests
Entry Type: System Impact
Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report’s original reporting, “Built with U.S. aid, Egypt’s elite science academies now face collapse.” The feature story examined how a network of Egyptian STEM academies once held up as a model for modern education is unraveling after the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. support, exposing the fragility of reforms built on external expertise.
As described, in 2023 when regular in-person site visits by U.S. technical teams were replaced by remote “online meetings.” These virtual check-ins failed to capture the accelerating decay of school facilities or the mounting frustration of the staff. After 2025, all oversight stopped.
Source: Devex