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Updating Kazakhstan's Education Sector Strategy

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (2 January 2003) - ADB has approved a technical assistance (TA) grant for $600,000 equivalent to help strengthen the education sector development strategy of the Government of Kazakhstan.

The TA seeks to identify key sector issues and priorities and contribute to strengthening the Government's education sector development strategy. This will help the Government to prepare a strategy for reform, as well as organization and financing plans.

The update will

• incorporate lessons from recent interventions
• firm up the sector reform framework of the Government up to 2010
• suggest ways to build on sector work and projects supported by ADB and Government reform initiatives.

A severe economic downturn after independence squeezed public financing for education, which dropped from 6% of gross domestic product in 1991 to about 3% in 1994, before rising to 4% in 1999.

The Government has taken steps to reform the sector. But it faces challenges in maintaining generally high standards and literacy rates, while improving funding, management and quality.

The TA will draw up a process for policy reform, an agreed financial planning, management and monitoring system, and a framework for effective aid coordination.

It will be carried out over 12 months to January 2004.

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