Resources

• Right to Know, Right to Education Annual Reports
  [Research Reports]

  30 Jun 2011During 2010 The Right to Know, Right to Education project deepened its country level work, while partners in all six countries intensified their community-level work. ...

• Mid-term Review of the Right to Know, Right to Education Project
  [Research Reports]

  08 Jun 2011The Right to Know, Right to Education project is a five-year project, ending in 2013. In May 2010, the project conducted a Mid-Term review in ...

• Education for all in Tanzania - from analysis to impact
  [Research Reports]

  21 Oct 2010HakiElimu’s education campaign in Tanzania demonstrates the value of a multipronged strategy that incorporates sound research to support advocacy, broad efforts to educate and mobilize ...

• Private gain with public funds? How the Tanzanian Government is spending your money
  [Research Reports]

  21 Sep 2010We all are striving for a better life. Whether it’s by toiling in our farms, tending daily to our herds, ensuring our children are healthy ...

• Right to Know, Right to Education Annual Reports
  [Research Reports]

  30 Jun 20102010 has been earmarked by both Idasa and the partners as the time for an intensive engagement with communities and other key stakeholders. The ground ...

• The Right to Know, The Right to Education – September 2009 Mid-year Report
  [Research Reports]

  30 Sep 2009The Right to Know, Right to Education project is a five-year project, ending in 2013. In May 2010, the project conducted a Mid-Term review in ...

• Right to Know, Right to Education Background
  [Research Reports]

  27 Aug 2009Idasa is working with partners on the Right to Know, Right to Education project. This project's activities focus on: increasing the democratic space around the ...

• Right to Know, Right to Education Annual Reports
  [Research Reports]

  30 Jun 2009The six-months from October 2008 to March 2009 proved to be a period in which the seeds of a successful programme and project were sown ...

• Making the Budget Work for Education: Experiences, achievements and lessons from civil society budget work
  [Research Reports]

  03 Dec 2008By: Mario Claasen In 2000, governments around the world committed themselves to improving human development in the areas of health, education and gender equality. The ...

• Reviewing SA Provincial Education Budgets, 2004 to 2010
  [Research Reports]

  14 Jul 2008By: Russell Wildeman and Kate Lefko-Everett This paper provides a review of South African national and provincial education budgets, with the aims of: first, surveying ...

• Review of national and provincial education budgets 2007
  [Research Reports]

  28 Jun 2007Every year, IDASA conducts a review of South Africa’s national and provincial Education budgets, looking at main trends in expenditure in the social and fiscal ...

• Implementation of Inclusive Education: How Far Are We?
  [Research Reports]

  07 Mar 2007This paper addresses the government’s inclusive education and training policy by asking whether provincial education departments have access to sufficient funding and implementation capacity. Concomitant ...

• Response to the Proposed Funding Norms and Standards for the Reception Year (Grade R)
  [Research Reports]

  19 Jul 2006The proposed funding norms and standards (2005) aim to give effect to Education White Paper 5 provisions that require the review and amendment of key ...

• Review of National and Provincial Education Budgets 2006
  [Research Reports]

  28 Jun 2006Budget 2006 is unequivocal in its pronouncement that increased allocations to provinces should further the cause of quality services. The fact that quality service delivery ...

• Reviewing Ten Years of the School Nutrition Programme
  [Research Reports]

  06 Dec 2005The provision of basic education in favourable social and economic circumstances is a complex matter. This degree of complexity is increased when basic education must ...

• A Review of National and Provincial Education Budgets 2005
  [Research Reports]

  13 Jun 2005National budget 2005 continues to give expression to two themes that were developed in the post-2000 era, namely “fiscal expansion” and “fiscal prudence.” Ordinarily, such ...

• The School Funding Norms Five Years On: Service Delivery Developments 2000-2004
  [Research Reports]

  08 Nov 2004By: Russell Wildeman Public schooling has been the site of intense official review and research activities in the last two years. The outcome of these ...

• The National Education Budget - March 2004
  [Research Reports]

  10 Mar 2004By Russell Andrew Wildeman "Government departments engage the country's twin objectives of poverty reduction and economic growth in different ways. The task of the budget ...

• School Funding Norms 2001: are more poor learners benefiting
  [Research Reports]

  25 Oct 2001By Russell Andrew Wildeman "The majority of poor schools in South Africa are based in historically disadvantaged communities. These communities face enormous socio-economic challenges and ...