This report provides the mid-term evaluation of the Increasing Access to Basic Education and Gender Equality Programme funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan. This evaluation is commissioned by the UNICEF Afghanistan Country Office (ACO) and covered the period from January 2015 to December 2018. The programme is slated to continue until December 2019. The timing of this mid-term evaluation serves to inform the Ministry of Education (MoE), USAID, UNICEF, and other stakeholders on the progress of the programme, lessons learned, and to present recommendations for ongoing programme adjustment based on essential findings. The summative evaluation is projected to take place in the first quarter of 2020. The evaluation will also serve to inform the Ministry of Education, USAID, and UNICEF on the lessons learned and to present recommendations based on the essential findings.