The role of governmental and non-governmental organizations in providing primary education in Cambodia :a comparative study in Siem Reap Province | |
| Author | Hang Chansophea |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.RD-06-08 |
| Subject(s) | Education, Primary--Cambodia--Siem Reap Non-governmental organizations--Cambodia--Siem Reap |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Generally, rural people in Cambodia have low education and they are the vulnerable groups in educational services. The enrollment rate is still low in the schools because of high dropout. The major factors lie behind such low enrollments, repetition and high dropout rates are the lacks of educational facilities and support, qualified teachers, household awareness on the value of education and affordability of parents to send and keep their children at schools. Furthermore, household workloads make children repetitive and eventually drop out afterwards. In the development aspect, the Government and Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) are playing very essential roles in sharing responsibilities to sustain the educational development by improving its quality and entitlement to all the children especially in the rural areas to complete at least compulsory primary education in line with the government policy. This research investigated the comparison of functional roles between the state-run schools and NGOs-run schools in providing primary education services for rural children in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. The main objective of the research is to focus on the functional roles of the Government-NGOs in term of participation for developing educational implementation in Cambodia under the National Policy for educational sector adopted by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS). This research was conducted in Kok Chak Commune of Siem Reap Province by using survey questionnaires with the total number of 62 parents, 122 school children, and 35 drop-outs. Teachers were also randomly selected for interviews about the existing educational situation. The data was analyzed by both quantitative and qualitative techniques after the data collection. The main findings of this research indicated that low educated primary to their children and poverty-stricken households in the rural areas of Cambodia could not finance the children to complete at least primary education. As a result, they asked the children to leave the schools to generate income for their family. Additionally, the findings also illustrated that NGO schools were better than Government school because NGOs school received financial donor support from INGOs to finance schooling for the children. The most challenging task is that both types of the school have no authorizes to negotiate with the central government to fix some loopholes in National Education policy. In conclusion, in order to improve the primary education and reduce high dropouts rate in rural in rural areas, the government should shed light on school teachers, school management, the curriculum and school facilities. More importantly, both government schools and NGOs schools should really incorporation their contributions to boost primary education provision in Cambodia |
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Rural Development, Gender and Resources (RD) |
| Chairperson(s) | Ahmad, Mokbul Morshed |
| Examination Committee(s) | Routray, Jayant K.;Kusakabe, Kyoko |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Government of Sweden (Sida) AIT Fellowship |
| Degree | Thesis (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 |