Promote the Partnership for Education initiative

Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners: ● Enhance public-private partnership to effectively coordinate between ODA and private resources and foster private contribution to education

Potential Resources, Possible Contributions: UNESCO/WEF: Promote the Partnership for Education initiative to foster private sector contributions to education through Multi-stakeholder Partnership

Status: (i) The programme delivered in October 2009 a second publication entitled “ manual for monitoring and evaluating education partnerships.
(ii) The programme developed a comprehensive Internet community portal that includes a database of case studies to be launched in production on 25 Jan 2010.
(iii) A resource guide (toolkit) to help implementing partnerships is under construction (in collaboration with Heidrick and Struggles, Cisco, Harvard, Education International and the International Business Leaders Forum)
(iv) A tendering process was launched in January 2010 to commission an expert team to design and deliver a partnership management capacity building programme in Rwanda, with the full support of the Rwandan MoE.

Status: (i) Monitoring and evaluation of partnerships Manual under preparation, to be launched in January 2009.
(ii) Report on how to engage teachers in partnerships under preparation, to be launched at the end of 2009.
(iii) Finalization of specific portal and database to showcase partnerships in education worldwide to be expected.
(iv) Workshop on capacity development held on 5 September 2008 with representatives from international civil society and private sector organizations and governments.