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The Impact of Donor Support to Basic Education in Ghana since the 1987 Education Sector Reforms

Ghana Journal of Development Studies

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Title The Impact of Donor Support to Basic Education in Ghana since the 1987 Education Sector Reforms
 
Creator Achanso, SA
 
Subject Basic Education, Donor Support, Education Reforms, structural adjustments, Budget
 
Description This paper examines the impact of donor support to Ghana’s Basic Education sector since the 1987 Education Sector Reforms. It explores the extents to which donor support had contributed to the mitigating the challenges of basic education in Ghana in order to determine what remains. The paper draws on extensive literature sources and in-depth interviews with donor agencies and policymakers that are connected to the provision of Basic Education in Ghana. The data was collected for a doctoral thesis between 2006 and 2011. The paper argues that while donor support had sought to contribute to the resolution of many of the challenges facing Ghana’s Basic Education sector, many of the challenges remain. It found that there have been positive impacts such as gender parity at the basic level, improvements enrolment, attainment and complete rates yet others such as management inefficiency, poor motivation and teacher commitment, within sector challenges, weak supervision and ineffective sector coordination remain. Hence, it has been suggested that much more collaboration between donors and the Ghanaian government is needed to effectively tackle the persistent Basic Education sector challenges.KEY WORDS: Basic Education, Donor Support, Education Reforms, structural adjustments, Budget
 
Publisher Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies
 
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Date 2015-04-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjds/article/view/115789
10.4314/gjds.v10i1-2.6
 
Source Ghana Journal of Development Studies; Vol 10, No 1-2 (2013); 98-111
0855-6768
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjds/article/view/115789/105351
 
Rights Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies, Ghana