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Pakistan
 

"...Overall out of 40 million children, 22 million are out of school. Pakistan's full time child labour force comes from these 22 million children. These include working children, girls, children with disabilities and children from the poorest families."
Extract from CEF Pakistan Strategy Paper

For more information on CEF Pakistan please click on the links below:
A four-page summary of CEF Pakistan can be found on pages 78-81of the Commonwealth Education Fund: Final Report (2009).

This final project report is based on external end of project evaluations (EPEs) of CEF conducted within the 16 CEF project countries and provides short profiles of each country and regional organisation CEF supported. It also draws on a global CEF final evaluation conducted for CEF and the Department for International Development (DFID) by Eric Woods, an independent consultant, and includes a chapter on lessons learned from his report. To read the individual country end of project evaluations (EPEs) or the final external evaluation by Eric Woods, please click here to go to the list of reports.

 
CEF Final Report Commonwealth Education Fund
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CEF Pakistan Summary
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CEF Pakistan: Context and Achievements (May 2005)
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Pakistan Strategy Paper (2005-2007)
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Pakistan Strategy Paper (2003-2005)
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Information from partners

CEF partner, Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) came into being in April 2004 after a series of consultations facilitated by CEF Pakistan. PCE is a coalition of civil society partners and individuals raising issues surrounding the education sector in Pakistan and conducting advocacy for better education policy and practice.
click here for the PCE website

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is a national NGO working to raise awareness and lobby for human rights since 1986. HRCP is working to carry out training at the local level for tracking education budgets and expenditure and to lobby for more funds and better utilisation at the provincial and national level.
Manual for Tracking the Education Budget, July 2005
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A Guide to Participatory Budget Analysis for Primary Education 2005
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The Education Budget in Pakistan, October 2004
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Status of Primary Education after Devolution, October 2004
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Status of primary education and funding in Pakistan - district findings, October 2004
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CEF partner, Sindh Education Foundation, has created a website focusing on Education for All (EFA).

Alliance for Education Development (AfED) is a network of six organisations with the shared strategy of promoting education development in Pakistan. AfED held an international conference on Local Governance, Texts and Contexts: Perspectives from South Asia
1-2 February 2006. Conference website.

Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives. Website.