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Acknowledgements CENWOR would like to thank UNICEF Sri Lanka for inviting us to participate in this country study on out-of-school children. We would particularly like to thank Brenda Haiplik and Manoja Wickramarathne of UNICEF Sri Lanka for their valuable support. CENWOR would also like to acknowledge Friedrich Huebler, Sheena Bell and Shailendra Sigdel from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics for their cooperation; Leotes Helin, Education Specialist, and Lieke van de Wiel, Education Regional Advisor, of UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia for their valuable inputs; Indu Bandara of the Department of Census and Statistics for collaborating in the study; Raja Gunawardena and Ramani Jayathilake for their support; A.M.S. Abeykoon, Janakie Abeywardane, Harini Amarasuriya, P. Arumugam, K.D. Chandra, A.N.S. Jayasena, Sarathchandra Jayawardena, M. Karunanithy, S. Krishnamoorthy, Anula Maddumabandara, T. Thanaraj, A.L.A. Rasool, and K. Sinnathamby for undertaking the field study and Annie V. Kurian for participating in the training workshop; W.S. Perera and H.P.N. Lakshman of the Ministry of Education for their support; Siva Sivasubramanium for her conscientious work in data processing and analysis of the field study; Soma Athukoralage and K. Shakeela for assisting in data processing; Indika Edirisinghe for coordination of the study; Savitri Hirimuthugoda, Vathany Narendran, Thakshila Udayanganie, Kamani Perera and Sugandhika Nawana of CENWOR for their cooperation; and all the interviewees who participated in the study for their patience and cooperation. Swarna Jayaweera Chandra Gunawardena Thana Shanmugam Sirimevan Colombage CENWOR September 2011 x
Contents Hon. Minister’s Message ................................................................................................ iii Hon. Deputy Minister’s Message .................................................................................... iv Hon. Monitoring MP’s Message .......................................................................................... v Secretary’s Message ............................................................................................................ vi Message of the Additional Secretary, Education Quality Development ........................ vii Message of the Director of Education, Non-formal & Special Education Branch ...... viii Message from the UNICEF Representative........................................................................ ix Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................ x Acronyms.............................................................................................................................. xii Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ xiii Chapter 1: Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Country context ............................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Education sector ............................................................................................................ 4 1.3 Main educational stakeholders .................................................................................... 5 1.4 Overview of the Five Dimensions of Exclusion ............................................................ 5 1.5 5DE in Sri Lanka ............................................................................................................ 7 1.6 Methodology .................................................................................................................. 8 Chapter 2: Profiles of Excluded Children ........................................................................ 9 2.1 Sources of data ............................................................................................................ 9 2.2 Participation in pre-primary education ........................................................................ 10 2.3 Participation in primary and lower secondary education................................................ 11 2.4 Classification of OOSC by school exposure .................................................................. 17 2.5 Disaggregated data on children in and out of school ................................................ 18 2.6 OOSC and their engagement in child labour.................................................................. 23 2.7 Indicators for children at risk of becoming excluded ...................................................... 25 2.8 Profiles of excluded children .......................................................................................... 29 Chapter 3: Barriers and Bottlenecks .............................................................................. 31 3.1 Demand-side socio-cultural barriers and bottlenecks ................................................ 31 3.2 Demand-side economic barriers and bottlenecks ...................................................... 33 3.3 Supply-side barriers and bottlenecks ........................................................................ 39 3.4 Political, governance, capacity and financing barriers and bottlenecks ........................ 44 Chapter 4: Policies and Strategies in Relation to the 5DE .......................................... 51 4.1 Demand-side socio-cultural policies and strategies ...................................................... 52 4.2 Demand-side economic policies and strategies ............................................................ 53 4.3 Supply-side policies and strategies .............................................................................. 58 4.4 Governance and management policies and strategies ................................................ 65 4.5 Financial allocations and educational expenditure ...................................................... 69 4.6 Social protection ............................................................................................................ 70 Chapter 5: Conclusions and Recommendations ............................................................ 73 5.1 Conclusions .................................................................................................................. 73 5.2 Recommendations ...................................................................................................... 75 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................ 79 Annex 1: Inventory for OOSC National Data Sources............................................................ 84 Annex 2: Field Study 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