Towards Good Governance in Basic Education BY: YASMIN KHODARY AUGUST/2014 TOWARDS GOOD GOVERNANCE IN BASIC EDUCATION: A CASE STDUY OF FAYOUM The January 25 th and June 30 th revolutions witnessed the outcry of the Egyptians against corruption, lack of transparency, weak accountability and other similar manifestations of poor governance in general and in specific sectors related to their daily life, such as education, health and water and sanitation. Those manifestations of poor governance seriously barricade the effective mobilization and allocation of resources needed for development and for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Due to the importance of good governance, the Social Contract Center (SCC) carried out an assessment of good governance in basic education (along with two other sectors: primary health and water and sanitation) in an attempt to evaluate the degree to which basic education service providers apply the principles of good governance (i.e. efficiency, effectiveness, responsiveness, equity, rule of law, transparency, anti-corruption, accountability and participation). The assessment, which has been carried out for the first time in Egypt, uses nationally owned indicators that were developed in consultation with stakeholders from government, private sector and civil society in order to better reflect the Egyptian economic, social, institutional and political context. This policy brief introduces the main findings of the "Governance in Basic Education" assessment and provides evidence-based advice and recommendations to improve the governance related performance of the basic education sector and eventually improve the service delivery to citizens in this sector. Good Governance is the good management of all state institutions that ensures the adoption of 9 principles within all institutions' policies and practices. Such Principles are: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Responsiveness, Equity, Rule of Law, Transparency, Anti-corruption, Accountability and Participation of all stakeholders. Without good governance in the education, the blooms of education and education reforms will not fully and effectively trigger down to the poor and marginalized groups. . The 2009 UNESCO “Education for All” Global Monitoring Report asserts that inefficiency and poor governance in education in Bangladesh, for instance, resulted in geographical and social gabs in the quality of educational services and the accessibility to them. Many literatures trace the decline in Egypt's development indicators to the decline in education-related indicators. It is, therefore, essential to monitor the performance of the education sector in order to observe the degree to which it is capable of boosting the development process.
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Towards Good Governance in Basic Education
BY: YASMIN KHODARY
AUGUST/2014
TOWARDS GOOD GOVERNANCE
IN BASIC EDUCATION: A CASE
STDUY OF FAYOUM
GOVERNORATE
GOVERNORATE
The January 25th
and June 30th
revolutions witnessed
the outcry of the Egyptians against corruption, lack of
transparency, weak accountability and other similar
manifestations of poor governance in general and in
specific sectors related to their daily life, such as
education, health and water and sanitation. Those
manifestations of poor governance seriously barricade
the effective mobilization and allocation of resources
needed for development and for the achievement of the
Millennium Development Goals.
Due to the importance of good governance, the
Social Contract Center (SCC) carried out an
assessment of good governance in basic education
(along with two other sectors: primary health and
water and sanitation) in an attempt to evaluate the