National Educational Organizations in Ivory Coast and their view on Educational Equity



Educational equity is said to be equal right, fairness and opportunity in education. Educational equity is dependence of fairness and inclusion, this means that comprehensive standard applies to everyone in a certain education system. Equity and equality can often be interchanged.

Education in Ivory Coast continues to face many challenges especially for the fact that the country is still recovering from the war that happened some years back and have not fully stabilized in terms of education but are making efforts towards improvement. Literacy rate is still low, children between 6-10 years are not enrolled in school and majority of people in secondary school are males. The government are trying to uplift the standard of education, there three major national ministries in charge of education in Ivory Coast, they are; ministre de l’Education Nationale (Ministry of Education), Ministre de l’Enseignement Technique et de la Formation Professionnelle (Ministry of Technical Education and Professional Training), Ministre de l'Enseignement Supérieur et la Research Scientifique (Ministry of Higher Education and Research).
The three ministry work closely together. Educational equity especially in gender equality is major concern to the state government.

Basically education in Ivory Coast: from Education for All to compulsory education, the ministry in conjunction with the Partenariat Mondial pour l’ Education have a stand on educational equity and equality that girls as well as boys are allowed to be educated and learn how to read, write and count. When children are allowed to go to school; they will bring better future for their families and country. When girls are allowed to, participate in education, many other areas will be positively affected. They see education as a key to reduce poverty, increase revenue, improve health, stimulate Economic growth, save children lives and promote peace, restrict early marriage, reduce maternal mortality rate and reduce HIV/AIDS.
The ministry of National Education and Technical education in 2015 organized “Excellent Girls at School” and awarded best girl student, this serve as a stimulator.
The Ministries are bringing education to all by development of school infrastructure, provision of teachers and teaching materials. Ms. Kanda Camara (2015) for Ministry of National Education in her speech analyzed the concern of the state government towards making education compulsory in Ivory Coast.

The efforts of the ministry of education and its partner to achieve the result of the National Development Plan (NDP) within 2012-2015 for education were as follows: “the population, especially women, children and other vulnerable group have access to quality social services with equity”. For improving the quality and governance of education, the government has planned an expansion of coverage (currently limited to 70% of elementary students) and targeting two aspects: targeting two aspects

In comparison with the Ministries of Education in Côte d’Ivoire, UNICEF (United Nation Children’s Fund) also has same view on educational equity.
UNICEF believes that education is the key to opportunities and that quality education is a right to every child, whether in the developing world, or amidst conflict and crisis. UNICEF believes in free access and quality education for every girl and boy child, says is a basic human right, UNICEF says that equitable education pays off. It can increase country’s gross domestic product per capita by 23% in 40 years. UNICEF mandate to serve the most marginalized population focuses special attention to girl child education, because they are the largest group excluded from education.
UNICEF is deeply committed to create a world in which all children regardless of gender, socio economic background or circumstances, have access to free compulsory and quality education.

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