Aid Agency Influence in National Education Policy-Making: A Case from Nepal's "Education for All" Movement

Autor/in	Bhatta, Pramod
Titel	Aid Agency Influence in National Education Policy-Making: A Case from Nepal's "Education for All" Movement
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 9 (2011) 1, S.11-26 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
Schlagwörter	Educational Development; Educational Planning; Global Education; Elementary Education; Donors; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; Government Role; Voluntary Agencies; International Organizations; Educational Finance; Finance Reform; Partnerships in Education; Influences; Nepal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsplanung; Globales Lernen; Elementarunterricht; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Bildungsfonds; Financial reform; Finanzreform; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor
Abstract	This article explores the nexus between foreign aid and Nepal's primary education in order to understand how aid agencies affect national educational development. It argues that after 1990, when global education targets provided the basic framework for all donor agency funding to primary education and the subsequent use of a sector-wide approach to achieve them, "national" education policy-making has become relatively unimportant if not meaningless because the documents produced within the parameters of global education targets have become the de facto policies. Moreover, the traditional policy-making function of the Ministry of Education (MOE) has "transcended" to a higher donor--MOE level, relegating the role of the Ministry to "managing" aid and aid agencies. This increased donor-ministry nexus has narrowed the avenues for broader participation by other relevant national stakeholders. Ironically, all this is happening amidst calls for decentralisation of educational planning. (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10