1. Review & Planning Mid-Decade Assessment
8th National EFA Coordinators’ Meeting with the Regional Thematic Working Group on EFA
Review & Planning Mid-Decade Assessment
Objectives, work organization and outputs

2. The International Commission on Education for the 21st Century established 1993, report 1996 Learning: The Treasure Within
“Choice of education means choice of society” that we envision for the future of our children, youth and the nation
“Education system cannot continue indefinitely to satisfy a demand which can only keep on growing. …
“Choices in education thus concern the whole society and require … a democratic debate … on its ultimate goals.
“The debate must be founded on an accurate evaluation of the education system, which is based on premises acceptable to all, …” pp

3. Whose vision of society? …
Providers of different visions
Family and peer socialization
Private tuition -> private schools
Community socialization -> community schools
Apprenticeship -> trade schools
Religious organizations -> faith-based schools
Government as regulator and/or provider -> government schools
Rapid systemic changes in Asia and the world
Widening rural-urban disparities, commercialization, dual economy, post-industrial information society, globalization
Expanding role of the State as a guarantor of Security to Welfare, including employment, health and education
Political pendulum between traditional hierarchical and modern egalitarian values, norms and order of society
Education for whom?
… and for what purpose?

4. The EFA Goals and National Targets
Sub-sectors ->
Cross-cutting
1. ECCE
2. UPE/ UBE
3. Youth & Adult Skills &
4. Literacy
Quantity – “for All”
5. Attaining Gender and social equality in stratified society
6. Ensuring Quality of inputs, T-L process and outputs, outcomes
Targeted Budget and finance

5. Dakar Follow-Up Strategy
EFA HLG Task Force, UNESCO 2002:
“An international strategy to opera-tionalize the Dakar Framework for Action on Education for All (EFA)”
Strategy 11: systematically monitor progress towards EFA goals and strategies at the national, regional and international levels.
Performance monitoring and evaluation of all stakeholders and development partners
The regular and systematic monitoring of EFA progress constitutes a central strategy for achieving Education for All by 2015

6. Global EFA Working Group EFA Global Action and RASEP

7. The purpose of the Review and Stocktaking of EFA Progress (RASEP)
A framework to support national capacity building
Coherence to the monitoring activities at different levels
Provide complementary data to the annual GMR under the framework of the Global Action Plan to Achieve the EFA Goals (GAP)
Reference for the operationalization of the GAP for
country plans for achievement of EFA goals
partners to better align their programme interventions

8. National EFA Mid-Decade Assessment (EFA MDA)
Are we moving closer to the goals? Forward? Backward?

9. Why MDA?
to identify problems, issues, policies and strategies of education reform
to ensure that education will reach the un-reached groups.
To inform the mid-term review of national education policy
to target policies for attaining EFA by 2015.

10. Timeline and Milestones for national and regional assessment
Preparation
Assessment
Policy Review
2003-5
2006
2007
2008
Module development, case studies
initial outline with raw data
With the objective of identifying the unattained targets and un-reached target groups for each of the Six EFA Goals, the participants discussed many aspects of the process. Among them, the following are the current plans with regard to the points raised in the concept paper for the Global EFA Review :
• In addition to the usual school-based statistics, they will use mostly the existing data collection, such as the population and housing census, various household surveys, labour force surveys, household income and expenditure surveys, etc.
• National IE policies on minorities, disabled, the extremely poor, etc.
• As the source of UIS data is the national statistics, the national assessment exercise will motivate and accelerate national data collection and reporting
• The exercise will generate materials that may be of use to the GMR
• Case studies have been conducted and more will be undertaken, especially in areas where standard statistics are not available and inadequate.
• The structure and process of implementation will be examined carefully to identify how the policies were differently implemented with regard to the different target groups
• Because of the composition of the participants, the discussions did not focus much on the financing aspects of the Six EFA Goals.
• Timeline: end of 2006, initial outline with raw data; 2007 analytical and politically anchored reports; 2008 regional policy review
analytical and politically-anchored reports
Sub-regional policy review

11. Regional Coordination Unit MDA Regional Coordination
MDA structure
Legend
Advisory Committee
Regional EFA TWG
Policy Structure
Technical structure
Recommends, makes proposals
Coordinates
Gives directives
Regional level
Regional Coordination Unit
MDA Regional Coordination
MDA
Center
Sub Regional
Coordination
Advisory
Committee
Technical group
Sub-regional level
The MDA structure consists of policy and technical structures at the national, sub-regional and regional levels respectively. The policy structures are depicted in the organigram as oblong-shaped figures and the technical structures, as rectangulare figures.
Before the decentralization, the MDA Core Team worked directly with the pilot countries. The ADEA Working Group on Education Statistics formulated guidelines and mobilised support.
Likewise, the pilot countries replicated the basic structures in the form of national advisory committee or council and the technical team to conduct the pilot projects.
The decentralization and the expansion of membership across the whole Sub-Saharan Africa entailed building the corresponding structures at the sub-regional levels in the ESA and the WCA.
The Regional Centre and the two Sub-Regional offices have been established. The sub-regional advisory committees were initially organised specifically for the EFA assessment exercise in the form of the two EFA Regional Advisory Groups through elections held among the respective sub-regional groupings.
At this time, the cross-national technical working group have been organized.
National
Advisory
Committee
National
Advisory
Committee
MDA
Country
Teams
MDA
Country
Teams
National level

12. EFA technical support to countries in the region
UNESCO AP Regional Bureau for Education
Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS)
AP Education for All (APEAL)
AP Educational Innovation and Development (APEID)
Cluster and Field Offices
Ministries and national organizations / stakeholder groups
Regional, Sub-Regional, Country EFA Supporting technical and funding agencies
UN ESCAP Regional EFA TWG, Co-Chairs UNESCO and UNICEF
UNESCO UIS, EFA Global Monitoring Group and EFA Division
Regional/ Sub-Regional EFA coordinators, planners and statisticians

13. Regional Support
Organise and coordinate EFA Regional Support Framework for joint and coordinated assistance
Develop technical guidelines, analytical tools, training materials, DevInfo
Organise sub-regional capacity building training programmes for country teams aiming to support data collection, analysis and reporting
Support local fund-raising to fund national assessments
Support to national & regional assessment process & reports: TA, logistical and financial
Prepare sub-regional assessment synthesis reports

14. Preparations in Asia-Pacific Region
Pacific Islands
Preparations
UIS FTI SCB
AIMS CB
R&D – case studies
Literacy
EFA Coordination
EFA MDA

15. Activities
2006
First Quarter: prepare guidelines and background concept paper; regional strategy meeting and launch of national assessments
Second Quarter: distribution of guidelines and proposed national report outline; advisory and technical assistance missions and national workshops
Third Quarter: sub-regional capacity building workshops and peer review of draft policy reports, data compilation and analysis workshop
Fourth Quarter: accelerate/start national data and policy analysis organization and activities
2007
First Quarter: peer review draft national reports (technical working document) and initial draft of regional synthesis report
Second Quarter: final national reports approved and released by governments
Third Quarter: sub-regional peer review of draft sub-regional synthesis reports
Fourth Quarter: regional synthesis report
2008
Mid-term regional policy review

16. National MDA Task Force +MDA Coordination, Analysis & Report Writing Groups

17. improve strategies and accelerate the MDA process and
8th National EFA Coordinators’ Meeting: Mid-Decade Assessment Progress Review
Objectives
review draft reports on EFA MDA process at the country and sub-regional levels,
improve strategies and
accelerate the MDA process and
produce a sub-regional summary of the preliminary findings
on the performance of the principal stakeholders.

18. Specific objectives and outputs
Country teams:
Present and review draft national MDA reports;
Identify major achievements since the Jomtien and the Dakar conferences; and
major challenges, especially the remaining disparities and the un-reached groups in attaining EFA;
Outputs
Country output: revised drafts and work plan for completion of the national reports
Group output: summary sub-regional reports on preliminary findings of the MDA.

19. Specific objectives and outputs
TWG Member Agencies and EFA Partners
Present and review their respective contributions to the implementation of the EFA National Action Plans and the MDA process at national and regional levels
Identify major achievements since the Jomtien and the Dakar conferences; and
the major challenges, especially the remaining disparities and the un-reached groups in attaining EFA;
output: summary sub-regional reports on preliminary findings of the MDA with regard to the performance of development agencies and donors respectively.

20. Specific objectives and outputs
All participants:
Identify resources for covering required support to complete the EFA National Mid-Decade Assessment Reports and draft national action plans for capacity-building towards the national assessments;
output: support matrix: who supports what in which country
Prioritize topics, organization and finance plans for sub-regional and/or cross-cutting thematic studies, and identify countries that will participate in these activities;
output: work plan with logical framework matrix
Update all participants on the latest developments in the EFA movement through an exchange of information amongst and between participants.

21. Participants Country Delegation Development agencies
EFA/MDA Coordinators,
Data Analysts (Policy Analysts/Chief Report Writer not present)
Gender Focal Points
MDA taskforce/committee members
Development agencies
UN agencies and
Donor agencies
EFA advocacy organizations
NGO’s and
CSO’s
(Note: no representatives of minorities?)

22. draft reports
National EFA/MDA Coordinator’s draft report on the implementation of
The EFA National Action Plan
The Mid-Decade Assessment
Policy Analysts’ draft report on preliminary MDA findings on the impact of each EFA Goal on
the intended target groups: achievements, disparities,
identity and location of the over-achievers and under-achievers and
the un-reached population;
remaining analysis work plans
MDA Data Analyst’s draft report on the latest MDA data analysis status:
Data availability questionnaire, MDA indicator templates, tables, diagrams, maps and other graphics, disaggregated by analytical variables
Situation report on DevInfo, data collection, compilation and
data analysis related to the EFA National Mid-Decade Assessment

23. draft reports Gender Focal Point’s report on
the activities and achievements in mainstreaming gender issues within the Ministry of Education
impact across all EFA Goals and targets,
the under-achievers, under-privileged, disadvantaged and the un-reached populations.
Representative of National Civil Society Organizations (CSO) or National Council of NGOs
Report on the involvement of CSO in EFA implementation and in the EFA National Mid-Decade Assessment process −
TWG Member Agencies/Organizations and EFA Partners
Report on their respective activities and contributions in support of
(a) the implementation of the EFA National Action Plans and
(b) national and regional MDA process

24. Format of the Proceedings
Modality
peer review of progress of MDA and produce sub-regional summary of preliminary findings.
plenary and concurrent sessions
breakout sessions on special topics for sub-regional and/or thematic studies.
Content (ref. Guidelines to presentation)
National EFA Coordinators and Data analysts will present draft national reports for peer review of technical assessment and identify issues and themes for sub-regional reports.
The TWG Members and EFA Partner Agencies, donors and NGOs will present and review assessment of the impact of their contributions in support of the EFA implementation and MDA process at both national and regional levels.
The medium of communication
English in inter-national dialogue,
National language in country team discussions.

25. The Organizers & Resource Persons:
Ko-Chih Tung
UIS Regional Advisor; Head of the AIMS Unit, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau
Nyi Nyi Thaung
Programme Specialist; Responsible for statistical capacity building, EMIS and EFA monitoring
Jon Kapp
Assistant Programme Specialist; Involved in overall programme management & in EFA coordination
Ann Apiradee Wittayathawornwong
Programme Assistant In charge of updating the unit’s budget, organizing meetings and workshops, and correspondence.
Garnett Russell
Education Researcher
Analysis of EFA policies, implementation and impact on different segments of national population.
Leotes Marie Lugo
Information Manager The focal point for information management and public relations, and in-charge of the AIMS and EFA websites.
Diah Yulianti
Project Assistant Assists in the management of the AIMS projects
Panuwat Cholbushpakul
IT Specialist for Statistical Capacity-Building
Alexandra Denes
Consultant
Sara Duerto
Data Analyst
Mirei Ohara
AIMS Intern