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Education for All: Embracing Change, Securing the Future
Programme Area 5: Knowledge Management for Decision Making
Intermediate Outcome 14: Education planning, policies, and resource management are informed by data
Strategies: In order to develop and maintain a strong evidence base to support
improved governance in education, the MoE will implement long-range
resource planning by: (i) building technical capacity in the use of simulation
models and financial forecasting; (ii) obtaining and using appropriate tools
and databases for human, material, and financial resource management;
and (iii) operationalizing a web-based school information system (SIS. Such
data management tools will aid the MoE in generating comprehensive and
reliable data/information to monitor and evaluate the performance of and
equity in the education system. Additionally, a tailored M&E system for TVET
will be implemented to support sub-sector development.
TARGETS
❚ Medium- to long-term resource
planning is implemented
❚ 80% of new MoE policies are
informed by an evidence base
❚ 95% of schools use school-level data
in relevant management decisions
Intermediate Outcome 15: Knowledge management and policy development and implementation are efficient and
well-coordinated
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Strategies: The MoE will enhance policy development and implementation
TARGETS
by: (i) establishing a function for policy coordination in the Education
❚
Common
mechanisms
to share
Planning Division to: (ii) ensure that education priorities are supported by
information
and
collaborate
in policy
regulated polic ies and legislation, as necessary; (iii) provide training for
development in the MoE and with
MoE officials in policy development and technical writing; and (iv) improve
partner Ministries are established
public awareness of and access to Ministry policy documents. With
and utilized
respect to improving collaboration in knowledge management and policy
❚ All (17) policies/regulations listed in
the ESP are in place
development, the MoE will establish processes to improve information
sharing between government departments and other key entities, as well
as work with development partners to build local knowledge management capacity.
Programme Area 6: Leadership and Accountability
Intermediate Outcome 16: An efficient and effective organizational structure is in place to support Ministry
functions
TARGETS
Strategies: To strengthen the operations of the MoE, the organizational
❚ A revised organizational structure is
structure will be modified to improve work flow, communication and
formalized
reporting, and grouping of related functions. This work will be informed by
❚ 100% of positions in the MoE
relevant recommendations from the 2015 World Bank Functional Review of
have relevant and up-to-date job
the MoE. Additionally, relevant job descriptions will be provided for all MoE
descriptions
staff and standard operating procedures established at the level of each
❚ 100% of departments have written
standard operating procedures
department.
Intermediate Outcome 17: Leadership skills of system leaders are enhanced and there is evidence of participatory
decision making and distributed management at the Ministry and institutional level
Strategies: The following actions will be taken to develop the leadership
capabilities of system leaders and establish functioning entities at the
Ministry and institutional levels to contribute to decision making. At the level
of the Ministry, a senior leadership meeting comprising all Heads of Division
will be put in place and a MoE Budget Committee set up. Leadership and
management workshops for all MoE officers with supervisory responsibilities
will be implemented, and entities sanctioned by the 2005 Education Act to
assist with education governance will be strengthened, or established, where
necessary. At the institution level, leadership standards for principals and
terms of reference for school management teams will be established, and
principals will be given training in instructional leadership and supervisory
management.
TARGETS
❚ 100% of principals adhere to
leadership standards, to be
developed
❚ 100% of school principals and
Ministry officials with supervisory
responsibility are trained in
leadership and management
❚ At least three additional entities
sanctioned by the 2005 Education
Act to assist in governance are
operational
❚ 80% of schools have PTA and
Student Councils that contribute to
decision-making processes