Management for Sustainable Development Goals: Is Public-Private Partnership for Educational Development is Worthwhile in Sindh -Pakistan?

Abstract

This paper has been written in the background of proposed sustainable development conference to be held in September 2015 at UN headquarters with cooperation of the international community. It is new proposed set of comprehensive and universal sustainable development goals (SDGs).These seventeen goals are ambitious and an extension of eighth millennium development goals. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all is fourth proposed goal of SDGs. Public private partnership is worthwhile and direly needed to realize the transformative vision of the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs) as concluded in the study.

Promoting Private Schools in Rural areas of the country is being implemented by national as well as provincial Education Foundations with collaboration of the World Bank. This is one of such initiative under Education Reform Program that aims to address both the challenges of school participation and student learning in poor, rural and unserved communities of the region. This study gives an understanding of public and private sector institutional arrangements for educational development in the region. This study also presents insights from the personal observation of the authors; a field survey conducted during empirical work and other reliable primary data set. The study explores the ideas that public sector institutions are mostly mismanaged and have lowest capacity to deliver according to the need of the hour particularly for rural unserved households. In order to impart quality education to underprivileged public private partnership can be enhanced up to colleges and university level for the educational/ socio economic development of the country. This initiative will also strengthen Government's efforts to impart compulsory and free education to each and every child of the province under article 25-A of Islamic republic of Pakistan.