Education

The Move Toward Sector Wide Approaches in Education

As governments take greater control over their educational strategies and planning, they begin to develop frameworks of prioritized programs and activities to meet these goals. Furthermore, they develop medium term expenditure plans to pay for these programs.

As these plans, bolstered by poverty reduction strategies and long-term development plans, take shape, donors begin to look carefully at specific cells within the framework that they can support. That support may come in the form of budgetary support or perhaps through specific project support depending on government requests. The above pattern represents the beginning of sector wide approaches to plan and implement service delivery in the education sector.

The following is an example of how a sector framework might begin to look based on priorities across many subsectors.

Category Subsectors Preschool Primary Basic Secondary Tertiary TEVT Policy Cost Policy Cost Policy Cost Policy Cost Policy Cost Policy Cost Curriculum / Materials Teaching Training Equipment Facilities ICT Funds Special Programs Stipends Social Targeting Social Participation Other

ADB will support UNICEF in discussion of SWAps in the Mekong and Southeast Asia regions at a meeting in Hanoi on 15-17 November to be attended by numerous bilateral agencies. The meeting is one of several ongoing Asia region meetings on SWAps taking place in 2004 (including one in Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 11-12 November 2004).