The main areas of interventions by UNESCO:
- EFA planning, monitoring and assessment;
- Early childhood care and education;
- Primary and secondary education;
- Higher education;
- Literacy, non-formal education and skills development;
- Gender and education;
- HIV/AIDS prevention, health education;
- ICT in education;
- Inclusive education; and
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
Proposed UNESCO interventions:
- Enhancing educational reform implementation through provision of policy inputs and technical support;
- Strengthening capacity of educational staff at the central and local levels through capacity development for planning and budgeting, data collection and analysis, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance, accreditation, and in some cross-cutting themes such as gender equality, HIV/AIDS prevention, and inclusive education, ICT in education and ESD;
- Enhancing knowledge and capacity of the MOES on evidence-based policy planning and donor support coordination.
Major development partners active in education and broad areas of intervention:
Asian Development Bank (ADB):
- Enhancing equity, quality, and efficiency of secondary education;
- Improving the economic competitiveness of higher education and increasing employment opportunities of higher education graduates;
- Developing basic education for expanded and equitable access to improved quality and more efficient lower secondary education;
- Making technical and vocational education and training an accessible formal vocational training system that is more responsive to labor market needs.
The World Bank:
- Supports the Ministry of Education to scale up community-based construction of primary schools and community grants for the schools; provide teacher training for multi-grade teaching; and build capacity in the Ministry of Education to implement a sector program.
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF):
- Works to improve the quality of and access to primary education by focusing on community involvement in school life and address disparities.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA):
- In-service teaching training of science and mathematics in primary schools to improve the quality of science and mathematics classes;
- Encourages community involvement in primary education in order to increase enrolment.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID):
- Inclusive education to ensure that children with disabilities are able to attend and succeed in preschools and primary schools
The Australian government's overseas aid program (AusAID):
- Education sector development to support the construction of primary schools, water supplies; provision of an annual cash grants to the village development committee and in–service teacher training to all teachers of the targeted schools in multi-grade teaching and use of the new core textbooks and teacher guides by funding;
- Technical assistance to the Ministry of Education to help developing key sector plans such as the Education Sector Development Framework.
International Non-governmental organizations (INGOs):
- Several INGOs provide substantial support to formal and non-formal education. The most significant INGOs are Save the Children Fund Alliance, Plan International, World Vision, Room to Read, and World Dream Foundation are the most significant INGOs involved in the education sector.
- INGOs also support primary education and the construction of the schools and public libraries.
