Abolishing School Fees in Africa : Lessons from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Mozambique
This book constitutes one of the main outputs of the School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI). The initiative, launched in 2005 by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, was designed to support countries in maintaining a...
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World Bank
2012
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| Summary: | This book constitutes one of the main
outputs of the School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI). The
initiative, launched in 2005 by the United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, was
designed to support countries in maintaining and
accelerating progress toward universal primary education as
outlined in the Millennium Development Goals and the
Education for All (EFA) goals. Specifically, SFAI
strengthens country efforts to eliminate school fees and/or
implement targeted exemptions, subsidizations, and
incentives to reduce education costs for the poor. The
initiative has now grown into a broad partnership through
the involvement of other key development partners and
constituencies as well as research and academic
institutions. SFAI promotes access to quality basic
education worldwide through three specific and interlinked
goals. The first is to construct a knowledge base on school
fee abolition in order to inform sound and sustainable
policies, strategies, and interventions. SFAI recognizes
that school fee abolition is a complex process that requires
both the development of a credible database and the solid
analysis that builds on lessons learned from experience. The
second goal is to provide guidance and support to countries
in planning and implementing school fee abolition policies.
Engagement by SFAI partners is taking the form of both
technical and financial assistance within the framework of
ongoing national planning processes. The third goal is to
advance the global policy dialogue on the financial barriers
to education access and to build on existing EFA
partnerships. The result will ensure a good understanding of
the complexities involved in school fee abolition,
facilitate the articulation of complementary roles, and
create an environment for success. |
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