Reaching the Unreached: Meeting of Southeast Asian Countries

to Achieve the EFA Goals Together by 2015

2 – 4 September 2008/ Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

WORKSHEET 1

Setting Priorities Worksheet for EFA Partners

SC - Save the Children Sweden

ATD Fourth World Thailand

DAC - Disability Action Council, Cambodia

ActionAid - ActionAid, Thailand

NHRC - National Human Rights Commission, Thailand

Unreached/ Underserved
Groups / Organization / STRENGTHS
(What we can share and give away) /
1.  learners from remote and rural communities, including isolated areas / SIL, ActionAid, NHRC, ILO, Save the Children , UNESCO / REFLECT (tool), community engagement and organization development
2.  learners from religious, linguistic and ethnic minorities/ indigenous peoples / SIL, Save the Children, UNESCO / implementation of MT-B, MLE project, consulting, language and education policy, implement on ground – good practice, policy support, technical support, research.
-  advanced tools
-  IE tools
-  policy engagement
-  partnership with government and INGOs
-  technical support – tools – handbooks, surveys, research
-  NFE (Non-Formal Education– CLCs (Community Learning Centers)
3.  girls and women, especially from rural/ethnic minorities (pregnant girls) / SIL, UNESCO / same as above, teacher training, qualitative research, capacity building programmes, monitoring
4.  underperforming boys, boys at risk of dropping out, male dropouts / UNESCO
5.  children from migrant families, refugees, stateless children/children without identity papers / nomadic children / ATD 4th World (Thailand), ILO, Save the Children, UNESCO / - community based development
-  partnerships, poorest and rights
-  links to INGO/HR commission poverty.
6.  learners with disabilities/special needs / DAC (Cambodia), ATD, UNESCO / - a collaboration with government --> policy, EMIS, household mapping;
- teacher training
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7.  working children/ street children/ trafficked children/abused children / ATD 4th World (Cambodia), ILO, SC / -  Data and research capacity (Qualitative and Quantitative)
-  campaign/advocacy --> training
-  policy development --> lessons learnt
-  technical cooperation --> lessons learnt
8.  children in difficult circumstances (affected by armed conflict, disaster, children in prison or who are with their parents in prison) / ENET, ATD, SC / -  Target children affected
-  community engagement help government
-  ALS
9.  Orphans and abandoned children / ATD 4th World, Save the Children
10.  Learners from very poor families (urban poor) / ATD 4th World, ILO, Save the Children
11.  Children affected or infected by HIV and AIDS / ActionAid, NHRC, ATD 4th World, Save the Children / Stepping stones and stars

Notes:

ASEAN – ALL- does coordination at the regional level – support governments to achieve EFA. - 4 action lines in the ASCC Blueprint, coordination, develop policy framework, resource mobilizations

ASPBAE – ALL – campaign, literacy, profiling of unreached children, tools for budget tracking especially for disabled groups