Southeast Asia, which had been pursuing a course of largely sustainable growth, was struck in 1997 by the Asian crisis, the impact of which was grave and wide-ranging. However, the region has made remarkable recovery and seems to have turned the bitter experience of post-crisis reconstruction to its advantage: that is, the nations are now addressing reforms accompanied by structural change in diverse sectors including education. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss what is happening in regard to basic education reforms and capacity development in this changing Southeast Asian region.
In the basic education development of developing countries, support on the sector level reliant on a Program-Based Approach (PBA) is becoming the mainstream, as described in earlier parts of this book. This chapter tries to highlight and synthesize significant characteristics of three country cases in Indochina (i.e., Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam), to be analyzed in more detail in Part III, where education sector program support through PBA that includes Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) is currently underway. The aim is to examine the characteristics of program formationin the light of the key constituents of the Integrated Framework for international cooperation to education, which we proposed in Chapter 1. Also, by referring to the analytical framework presented in Chapter 3, we analyze how different actors interrelate to each other in the process of decentralization in three countries of Indochina.
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Hirosato, Y., Kitamura, Y. (2009). Education Reforms and Capacity Development in Basic Education: Illustration from Indochina. In: Hirosato, Y., Kitamura, Y. (eds) The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9377-7_6
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