Abolishing School Fees in Africa (pdf)
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 18 Apr, 2009From UN Pulse
Published by World Bank and UNICEF , a free publication.
Abolishing School Fees in Africa: Lessons from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Mozambique (full-text, 3.39 MB) constitutes one of the main outputs of the School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI).
The initiative, launched in 2005 was designed to support countries in maintaining and accelerating progress towards universal primary education. The initiative promotes access to quality basic education through three specific goals: constructing a knowledge base, providing technical and financial assistance to countries, and building partnerships to ensure success.
The book deals with case studies from five countries that had already abolished school fees - Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Mozambique - describing the actual experiences of each of the countries in planning and implementing their national education policies.