Education IO Membership Network

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Ordinal
Value labels	0 = No membership 1 = Full membership 99 = IGO not in existence
Technical name	polilink_igo_mem_edu_nw
Category	Political institutional linkages
Label	Education IO Membership Network
Related indicators	UN membership ILO membership IMF membership WHO membership

This network entails the membership of countries in international and intergovernmental organizations that are active in education. Included are the following 28 organisations:

• Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States (ABEGS),
• Asian Development Bank (ADB),
• Arab League of Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO),
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC),
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),
• African Union (AU),
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM),
• Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF),
• Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS),
• Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS),
• Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS),
• European Free Trade Association (EFTA),
• European Union (EU),
• Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO),
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC),
• Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (IFESCCO),
• Organization of American States (OAS),
• Union of South American Nations (UNASUR),
• Southern Common Market (Mercado Común del Sur) (Mercosur),
• Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS),
• Inter-American Development Bank (IADB),
• African Development Bank (AfDB),
• Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO),
• Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI),
• International Labour Organization (ILO),
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
• World Bank (WB),
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Coding rules

• The ordinal indicator captures no (=0) or full (=1) membership in the intergovernmental organization; if applicable, further statuses are coded.
• Years in which the intergovernmental organization was not existent/not yet founded are coded as 99.
• Unless noted otherwise, membership is reported valid as of December 31st of a given year.

Bibliographic info

Citation: Niemann, D., & Martens, K. (2021). Global discourses, regional framings and individual showcasing: Analyzing the world of education IOs. In K. Martens, D. Niemann, & A. Kaasch (Eds.), International Organizations in Global Social Governance (pp. 163–186). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65439-9_7

Related publications:

Misc

Project manager(s): Kerstin Martens, Dennis Niemann, Michael Windzio, Helen Seitzer, Fabian Besche-Truthe; Nils Düpont, Carmen Cordes, Marius Bode (INF)

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release
• Version 0.002: Data updated until 2025

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