Transcript Addressing Challenges of Secondary Education in Africa

Handling the Challenges of
Secondary Education in Africa:
How Can the NPEF
Support the Key Stakeholders?
Jee-Peng Tan
World Bank
Launch Workshop of the Norwegian Post-Primary Education
Fund (NPEF), Oslo, Sept 13-14, 2005
The Challenges
• SEIA is at a crossroads today
• Urgent need for a coherent, systemic policy
response that is driven by country with support
from development partners
• Results will be elusive without a shared basis for
coordinated action
– Vision and policies
– Resources, programs and implementation plan and
capacity
The Key Stakeholders
• Countries—the governments at all levels
• Ministries—of education, labor, industry, finance,
economy
• Teachers & education workers
• Parents and students and general public
• Employers—especially in leading sectors
• Civil society—domestic and others
• Development partners at central and local levels
Lessons from NETF Experience
• Define the product niche & partner
– Technical support to help countries prepare and
implement sound sector policies and programs
– Leverage WB capacities to scale up
• Articulate the implementation modalities
– Generate and disseminate knowledge
– Foster dialogue & exchange to create common ground
– Enhance capacity of national teams
• Keep administrative procedures simple
– Clear eligibility criteria
– Simple application process, mediated through WB TTLs
– Stewardship
NETF Results
• Started in 1998, disbursed total of $44m
• Results in all the three areas of emphasis
• Supported countries to develop sector plans
• Created sector knowledge assets
• Fostered policy dialogue at country and
international
• NETF Innovations
• Integrated package of relevant services
• Engagement of key interlocutors
• Support for high-risk activities for potentially highpayoff products
Examples of Innovative Products
• Education Country Status Reports, Sector Reports,
and Policy Notes for 23 African countries
– Almost all completed with national counterpart team
– Many prepared with inputs from the Pole de Dakar team hosted
by UNESCO’s Regional Bureau in Dakar, Senegal
– Many accompanied by training support
• Education Finance Simulation Models in 17 African
countries
– Constructed to support policy development, program design and
budget estimation
– Africa Region’s early work on these models laid the analytical
foundation for the indicative framework of the Education for All
Fast Track Initiative.
• Support for EFA FTI endorsement process
More Innovative Products
• Key Policy Exchange Fora
– ADEA-EI-World Bank Bamako Conference on
Contractual Teachers
– SEIA Conferences
– School Management
– Tertiary education conference
• Regional work
– Collaboration with UNAIDS benefiting more than 25
African countries since 2002
– Textbooks and School Construction
– Primary school quality
– SEIA & TEIA
NPEF:
Another Success in the Making?
• Respect principles of NETF
• Support risk-taking and innovation in use
of fund
• Keep balance in structure of program to
deliver an integrated package of services
addressing priority needs
• Use partnerships to leverage strength of
others
Thank you!