Bosnia and Herzegovina

Adult Education: In addition to the vocational training efforts already mentioned above, some of them directed toward increasing the employability of adults, continuing education programs for adults were in the process of being developed in the year 2000 through the collaborative efforts of education authorities in BiH and international specialists in education. Besides these programs, civic education programs designed to promote ethnic tolerance, democratic participation, and human rights were developed and implemented throughout the country from the late 1990s on, receiving international funding support and technical assistance from international nongovernmental organizations like the Open Society Institute and the International Foundation for Election Systems.

Distance Education (TV, Radio, and Internet): Distance education has been recommended in BiH as one possible means of addressing the educational needs of the refugees and internally displaced who have not yet returned to their home communities or been fully resettled and reintegrated. Thirty-three television stations and 292 "repeaters" broadcasted television programming in BiH just before the end of the war, in September 1995. About 940,000 radios were in use in 1997; one year later eight AM radio stations, 16 FM radio stations, and 1 short-wave radio station were transmitting broadcasts throughout the country. In 1999 two Internet service providers were operating in the country.