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MAKING SURE CHILDREN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES GET A GOOD EDUCATION

Policy Brief by Galen Anderson

• DFID:

DFID: Department for International Development

• GPE

GPE: : Global Partnership for Education

• CSO

CSOs: s: Civil Society Organizations

KEY TERMS

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UK Governme rnment nt run organiz run organizat ation ion

• Wo

Works with major national and int internat rnational pla ional players

• Ho

How d w does DFI

• es DFID w

D wor

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• Fo

Focus on local sustainable de developm lopment nt

• In

Investment nt in all le in all levels ls of

• f

ed educati tion

WHA WHAT I T IS S DFID DFID? ?

1.

• 1. to

to improve learning 2.

• 2. to

to reach all children, especially those in fragile states 3.

• 3. to

to keep girls in school, helping the most marginalized girls stay in school and learning longer

THREE CORE PRIORITIES

AID B AID BY NUMBERS NUMBERS

• Primary: preparing for school

readiness

• Secondary: youth unemployment

and skill-based learning

• Tertiary: increase international

exchange

• Other concerns: access to food

water, health care, country stability

2015 AND BEYOND

SWOT

S

• Quality of education
• Contextually-based

approach

• Sensitive to local issues
• Financial support
• In-country relationships
• Quality assurance
• Interconnectedness

W

• Fragile states undefined
• Low-status of teaching
• Implementing quality

assurance

• Neo-liberal system
• Reliance on CSO aid

O

• Robust civil society
• Government participation
• Aid-Trade set-up
• Home support
• Individual investment in

education T

• Economic and government

instability

• Monetary inequity
• Familial investment in

education

• Home environment
• Minorities’ education
• Collapse of civil society