Unesco - Global Monitoring report

NGOs

• key instruments for boosting state efforts in areas:
  • achieving universal primary education
  • achieving gender parity in higher education and education provision in general (enrollment of girls increased more than 5% cross-country)
    • girls also benefit from provosion of microfinance loans to their mothers, who get bargaining power in their households
• long history of indigenous NGOs in South Asia, working on social mobilization and development
  • different focuse in different countries
    • Bangladesh - direct provision
    • India - NGOs as social innovators, trying different models
  • the number of NGOs is quickly increasing - in future it will be needed to pay attention to these new NGOs, because of easy availability of funds

Source: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24166&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html