Basic education : review of experience

It summarizes available literature and presents case studies of selected projects in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Brazil, and Haiti, together with a series of lessons learned. The paper is organized in accordance with the three principal phases of project management. (1) project context and design, including a detailed description of A.I.D."s basic education strategy; (2) project implementation (by far the longest section of the report), including sections on public and private financial resources for basic education, equity of access, educational quality and efficiency, educational administration, and program sustainability and institutionalization; and (3) evaluation, covering current approaches to evaluation, intended audiences, evaluation indicators, and capacity-building objectives of evaluation. Includes bibliography.