| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
For the universalization of basic education, educational planning at grass-roots based on the peoples' learning needs and emphasizing an ownership of the community has become more important. This model requires participation of the community in the survey of educational situation of the community and monitoring and evaluation of the community educational projects, and 'learning' is the key of the model. And various NGOs started innovative programmes of education development at community level in the late 1990s.
This research project studies the cases of India, Tanzania, and Bangladesh, and identifies the functions and possibilities of NGOs for educational planning of basic education at grass- roots, investigating recent trends of Government educational planning, community education programmes by local NGOs in each country, National Education Networks of NGOs, influences of international NGOs to local NGOs, and so on.
As a responsibility of the Governments and a 'quality' of education are
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emphasized for universalization of basic education after 2000, each Government itself promoted decentralization of educational planning and Government formulated partnership with NGOs. The original functions of NGOs in educational activities at community level, however, have been disappearing. Then the following functions remain : National Education Networks, integrating information and opinion of local NGOs, would advocate an alternative educational plan to Governments, local NGOs share such works as a capacity building of community people, and monitoring in the framework of Government's planning, NGOs may give indirect effects and relations to the Government programmes, organizing and implementing educational quality and successful educational programmes outside of basic education such as pre-primary education and education for adolescents. And Educational Consultants of profit organizations, growing in the marketization of education, become competitors of NGOs as partner of Governments. Less
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