WORKING PAPER Stakeholder Collaboration: An Imperative for Education Quality Introduction

This paper draws on examples of successful stakeholder collaboration in existing projects to reason the importance of collaboration in education quality improvement. Stakeholder collaboration in the definition, implementation, measurement, and evaluation of education quality improvement projects arguably increases the likelihood that the resulting policy will more effectively meet the needs of various beneficiaries and donors, be judged meaningful and successful by a wide range of stakeholders, have fewer unintended consequences, and be more sustainable. Participatory approaches also support democratic principles and efforts to move from top-down to partnership models of international development.