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42 EFA Mid-Decade Assessment4.6 Recommendations to Assess Quality and Disparity IssuesCountries recommended conducting an impact study of policies for life skills, preferablywith an independent research body conducting the research. The study should alsocover success stories from development partners and NGOs.Data collection should also be improved by building capacities at the local and nationallevel and developing a database. A mechanism should be instituted for informationgeneration and data collection and focus should be given on disaggregated data toidentify quality and disparity components for life skills. Life skills indicators should alsobe clearly defined.Other recommendations are:●●●●●●●●Review life skills programme curricula to gauge its relevance and effectiveness.Monitor learning achievements.Determine if there is teacher training for life skills education.Examine if there is clear national policy/directives to institute life skillsprogrammes for different disadvantaged groups.Find out reasons why children leave schools.Get data from national censuses and household surveys but also include datafrom schools and communities.Hold classroom observations to assess effectiveness of life skills programmes.Involve all stakeholders in the assessment process, particularly in datacollection.4.7 Recommendations for NGO Participation in the AssessmentProcessMeeting participants all agreed that any assessment, monitoring and evaluation mustbe done with the participation of all stakeholders. NGOs should be involved in theassessment of all life skills issues from health/hygiene, social, economic, etc.Representatives of international partner agencies emphasized that from the beginningof the assessment to the implementation, there needs to be coordination andcollaboration with the NGOs, as well as sharing of information. The grouprecommended that this type of coordination, collaboration, and information sharingshould be headed by the government, or a UN agency or development partner as analternative. It was also recommended to promote the use of ICTs in informationdissemination.Education for All: Reaching the Unreached