[Fwd: The Role of NGOs in Primary Education India]
bunyad literacy community council
Subject: The Role of NGOs in Primary Education India
From: "SAHE Information Desk" <in...@sahe.org.pk>
Date: Fri, March 6, 2009 4:32 pm
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Abstract
The study documents six innovative NGO initiatives to enhance
access to primary education for
disadvantaged children and to increase the quality of schooling in
India. These NGOs have
demonstrated effective grassroots action to enhance the quality of
basic education and have also
influenced mainstream education through replication of their models
and through policy dialogue
with the Government. While NGOs are best associated with small
projects and micro-level
interventions, the study postulates a growing and strategic role
for the NGOs to support and
enrich education programs of a national dimension and to collaborate
with the Government in a
macro setting. The study attempts to identify the comparative
advantages that NGOs can bring
to mainstream education. The 6 NGOs surveyed are MV Foundation
(child labour eradication),
Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative (universalization of pre-primary
and primary education in a
metropolis), Bodh Shiksha Samiti (appropriate primary education for
the urban poor), Rishi Valley
Rural Education Centre (Multi-grade and Multi-level
teaching/learning model), Eklavya (pedagogic
renewal) and Centre for Education Management and Development
(school improvement through
management inputs).
Source: This paper-a product of the Robert McNamara Fellowships Program,
World Bank Institute-is part of a larger effort in
the Bank to contribute toward the development of knowledge and human
capital. Copies of the paper are available free
from the World Bank, 1818 H StreetNW, Washington, DC 20433. Please
contactShobha Kumar, roomJ4-053, telephone
202-458-7021, fax 202-522-4036, email address sku...@worldbank.org.
Policy Research Working Papers are also
posted on the Web at www.worldbank.org/research/workingpapers. The
author may be contacted at
shanti.ja...@delind.cec.eu.int. January 2001. (54 pages)
NOTE: The views expressed here are those of the author/s and do not
necessarily represent the views of the Society for the Advancement of
Education- SAHE .
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