EDUCO, Community-Based Management, and Global Education Policy: Losses, Legacies, Lingering Issues

Abstract

This chapter concludes not only by providing an update on the Education with Community Participation (EDUCO) program but also by returning to and drawing out a number of issues raised throughout the book. The first section begins by discussing what came after the EDUCO program in the way of community management of education and then shifts to focus on how EDUCO lives on in the field of global education policy, often in ways unknown to development practitioners and others in the global education policy field. The second section then turns to the question of the implications of EDUCO for community-based management as it is implemented and conceived at the local level. This discussion is particularly important because the experience of EDUCO at the local level has not been a focal point of previous chapters.