The main areas of interventions by UNESCO:
- Addressing marginalization;
- Education planning and management;
- HIV and AIDS;
- ICT in education;
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD);
- EFA coordination and regional activities (UNESCO 2011).
Proposed UNESCO interventions:
- Sector analysis, policy & planning and management of the education sector;
- Literacy;
- Teachers; and
- Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) (UNESCO 2011).
Major development partners active in education and broad areas of intervention:
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF):
- Out-of-School Children:
- to support data gathering of out-of-school children;
- to raise awareness on the problem of out-of-school children;
- to make ensuring an education for all children a national priority.
- Early childhood development:
- to promote access to quality early services.
- Child-Friendly Schools:
- to mainstream its concept into national education system;
- to improve the quality of education.
The Australian Agency for International Development (Aus Aid):
- Teacher training:
- to improve the teaching of science and math in Southern Thailand.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA):
- Higher education:
- to improve the quality of education and research ability in higher education;
- to produce the human resources who can contribute the sustainable and stable economic development.
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ):
- Regional Cooperation Platform for Vocational Education and Teacher Training in the ASEAN Region for joint research and consultancy on vocational education.
