LE3 .A278 2011

2011

Grieve, Malcolm

Acadia University

Bachelor of the Arts

Honours

Political Science

Politics

Through global conferences like Education for All and the Millennium Summit, universal primary education has been identified as an important component of the global development discourse. Education enhances individual’s economic, social, and political capabilities and can enhance health and political participation. It also reduces infant mortality and population growth. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the furthest behind in achieving universal primary education, and many African governments lack the capacity to provide adequate and effective education services to the children within their state. Because of these failures, NGOs have stepped in to enhance the education delivery of the state. NGOs can perform both an advocacy role and a provisionary role in enhancing primary education. Through an analysis of the Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic Education budget monitoring in Malawi, and the School for Life’s provision of complementary education in Ghana, one can see the positive contributions NGOs are making to the achievement of universal primary education. Both NGOs and states in Malawi and Ghana lack the capacity to provide universal primary education on their own thus cooperation between the two will be required to enroll every child into primary education. Collaboration between NGOs and the state can enhance the provision of primary education and will help make the achievement of universal primary education a reality.

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