Governance of Education

The international community has in recent years acknowledged how the successful implementation of education and development measures hinge on the practice of good governance.  In “What is Good Governance?” this United Nations paper outlines that good governance is consensus-oriented, participatory, effective and efficient, transparent, responsive, equitable and inclusive, and follows the rule of law.

The EFA (Education for All) Global Monitoring Report echoed this view on the centrality of governance.  The 2009 Report, Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters, focused on how policies to support good governance can remedy the inequalities in access to education, which consigns “millions children to lives of poverty and diminished opportunity.”  The full report can be accessed here.  The EFA Global Monitoring Report recently launched their 2010 edition, Reaching the Marginalized which examines how and why children are excluded from education, and can be read here.

In response to the decisions made at the World Education Forum at Dakar in 2000, UNESCO developed a programme on educational governance, and the resulting publication, entitled Educational Governance at Local Levels, is available here.

Addressing Education Governance in Fragile Situations

The European Commission (EC) - a member of the INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility - has recently released a far-reaching study entitled “Study on Governance Challenges for Education in Fragile Situations.”  The study includes a synthesis report and eight country case studies including Aceh, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Lebanon (desk study), Liberia, Somalia (desk study) and Southern Sudan.

A key focus of the analysis was to review and provide lessons learnt on the role of development partner agencies in fragile situations across the continuum of humanitarian relief through transition/reconstruction and towards longer-term development.  Highlighting the relationship between education and fragility, the EC report includes in-depth analysis on the capacity, service delivery, resource mobilization, and viability of partnerships in the education sector in each fragile state.

This study, which is part of the Working Group on Education and Fragility’s work plan, is now available on this site.

• Click here to read the Study Synthesis Report.

 

• Click here to read the Aceh, Indonesia Country Report.
• Click here to read the Cambodia Country Report.
• Click here to read the Democratic Republic of Congo Country Report.
• Click here to read the Haiti Country Report.
• Click here to read the Lebanon Country Report.
• Click here to read the Liberia Country Report.
• Click here to read the Somalia Country Report.
• Click here to read the Southern Sudan Country Report.