Country studies on out-of-school children

The Belize OOSCI Study was started in 2016 and completed in September 2017. The study used a number of quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses, as advised in the OOSCI manual.

This report explores the problem of out-of-school-children in Guyana. It aims to scrutinise factors related to children's exclusion from schooling, identify existing policies related to enhanced participation and develop innovative strategies to encourage children's attendance to the classroom and ensure that they are receiving quality education.…

The study that forms the basis for this report was carried out in 2015-2016 with technical support from IHE and AEPT as part of a UNICEF-MENFP partnership. A national sample of 1,908 households (9,810 people) were selected to conduct a quantitative survey, a sample of which was then used to extrapolate results for the entire population.

This report, Educational Exclusion in the Costa Rican Public System is a five-dimensional analysis conducted between the Ministry of Public Education of Costa Rica and UNICEF, UNESCO and UNDP.

This paper is a follow-up of the India Report on Out-of-School Children (UNICEF & UIS, August 2014). India was one of the countries which took part in the first phase of the Out-of-School Children Initiative. One of the important reasons why the India Report was useful was because it highlighted the issues of data quality and data contradictions among existing education data sources. Since the publication of the report, several new education datasets have been released in India.  In this paper, indicators of school participation are calculated by including these new datasets to highlight the similarities and differences in different data sources and the possible reasons for these. 

In the national study on the situation of inclusion and educational exclusion in Honduras, carried out by UNICEF in Within the framework of the Cooperation Program, the behavior of the dimensions from which the exclusion profiles stand out in access to pre-basic, basic to ninth grade, school lag, risk of dropping out and early school failure are analyzed.

The study used a framework developed by UNICEF and UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) as part of a Global Initiative on Out-of-school Children designed to help support a systematic analysis to identify the bottlenecks to universal primary education and explain why well-intentioned policies were not yielding the expected results. The tools and methodologies developed in this regard were used to inform and guide this Out-of-School Children Study in the Eastern Caribbean in an attempt to assess the scope of and reasons for any exclusion.

This country study on out-of-school children initiated by UNICEF /UNESCO-UIS and the GoSE will not only identify who and where the out of school children are, but will also offer a platform for discussion on how to address the barriers and bottlenecks that are creating exclusion. This initiative is an integral part of the broader objective of providing education to all.

This study seeks to provide information and a statistical analysis that allows creating a profile of children out of school or at risk of dropping out and that in turn shows the inequalities of the educational process in Mexico.

The Cambodia study is the result of intensive collaboration between UNICEF, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. The study analyses the proportion of children who are out of school and those at risk of dropping out, it also discusses the supply and demand-side factors affecting their participation in education including national sector policies, governance and financing and the dynamic relationship between push and pull factors affecting children’s attendance and learning.

This report provides a country context and an overview of the education system in Nepal. It also analyses data collected to develop the profiles of out-of-school children in Nepal within the framework of the Five Dimensions of Exclusion (5DE).

This report outlines the results of the survey “Out of School Children in Ukraine – A Study on the Scope and Dimensions of the Problem with Recommendations for Action”, which was conducted in January 2016 by GfK Ukraine, with the support of the UNICEF Country Office in Ukraine. The necessity of this study was determined by the impact of internal migration from the non-government controlled areas (NGCA) to other regions of Ukraine, on the education system, as well as by the lack of complex data on IDP access to school in the areas of settlement.