"The Myanmar Education Consortium (MEC) is a program designed to increase access to and quality of early childhood, primary and non-formal education programs in the informal (non-government) and formal sector. In particular, MEC supports the building of capacity of complementary education systems and structures including community and school-based early childhood development, and education programs for vulnerable children and young people who cannot attend primary schools. The Myanmar Education Consortium was founded in March 2013 and is currently funding sixteen partners –Save the Children, the Burnet Institute and World Vision Myanmar have been working in partnership throughout the program. In June 2014 an additional 13 organisations started projects in partnership with MEC."