ActionAid Alliance has commissioned three reports on donor co-ordination in Bolivia, Burkina Faso and Tanzania. Each report examines the role that donors play in that country in the sector vis-àvis other donors as well as in relation to the government and civil society. ActionAid Alliance selected countries where the sectoral approach to support in the education sector was already under discussion and where the European Community was a donor in the sector in addition to three or more member states. The research continues a theme established by ActionAid in 1999, whose research into donor activity in the education sector in Ghana revealed some startling instances of a lack of donor co-ordination3. Each author was asked to examine donor practice and policy in the education sector in the country concerned. They were asked to assess each donor’s attitude to sector wide approaches, whether the Framework agreed at the World Education Forum in Dakar would lead to changes in donor practice and whether donors were aware of and working to meet the terms of the EU Code of Conduct (see below). The authors were then asked to assess positive and negative elements of co-ordination in that country and propose suggestions for improvement. Full-length versions of the reports are also available from ActionAid Alliance which cover the role of the government and civil society in each country in more detail.