Education of Disadvantaged Children in OIC:
The Key to Escape from Poverty
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various topics around the theme of poverty across OIC countries, identifying challenges and
developing recommendations. This report is prepared for COMCEC to tackle the issue of access
to quality education across OIC countries. It aims to provide a comparative overview and
situation analysis of disadvantaged children’s access to education in OIC member countries by
employing a desk review, microdata analysis and in-depth interviews.
This report is structured in six chapters. This report continues with the introduction
describing the link between education and development and poverty and continues with a
general overview of access to education in the world. The chapter then continues with
presenting the conceptual framework. Conceptual framework outlines the effects of different
bottlenecks and barriers and the interventions that are applied from all around the world that
are used to alleviate these bottlenecks and barriers in access to education are summarized.
Chapter 2 gives the overview of OIC countries with respect to access to education in general and
continues showing the effect of bottlenecks and barriers in the OIC. After presenting the
persistence of barriers in the OIC the chapter continues with presenting policies and strategies
used to alleviate these problems in the OIC countries. Chapter 3 presents the same issues using
an in-depth analysis of four case countries; Pakistan, Jordan, Senegal and Turkey. Chapter 4
presents the recommendations that could be adopted by the countries to improve education
outcomes. Chapter 5 concludes the report.