Education of Disadvantaged Children in OIC:
The Key to Escape from Poverty
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programme implemented by the Sindh Education Foundation in villages of the Sindh province
distributed per child subsidies to entrepreneurs and in return offered free education to
children in these private schools. This led to increases in the enrolment rates in the villages in
which it was implemented.507
Quality of education needs to be enhanced in many countries and improving teacher quality
seems to be the key to improving the learning outcomes of children. Interventions that are
directly targeted at teachers such as pedagogical interventions, repeated teacher training and
providing performance incentives for teachers, were shown to improve learning outcomes in
the countries that they were applied.508
Table34Summaryof recommendations
Barrier Whatworks toalleviate thebarrier?
Poverty  Abolishing school fees
 Cash transfers
 School feedingprogrammes
Location  Settingup schools inhard to reachareas
 Providing means of transportation to children in hard to reach areas
Gender  Puttinggenderequality ineducationas apriority innational strategies andplans
 Targeting girls specifically
 Publicawareness campaigns
Disability  Acknowledging that disabled children are having difficulties in accessing schools in
national plans and strategies
 Having a clear legislation from diagnosing to distributing children to schools
 In-service trainings for teachers about inclusiveeducation
 Making schools more accessible in terms of infrastructure for disabled
children
Language  Providing childrenbilingual educationopportunities
 Non-formal education for the children who dropped out of school for
language problems
Failing
systems
 Adequatelyfinancetheeducationsystem(Around15-20%ofthegovernmentbudget)
 Making school more accountable of the results
o Providinginformationtoparentsonchildren’s/school’seducationoutcomes(e.g.
through report cards)
o Public-private partnerships
 Improvingqualityof education
o Repeated teacher trainings
o Providingperformance incentives
507 Barrera-Osorio, Blakeslee, Hoover, Linden, and Raju (2011)
508 Evans and Popova (2015)