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2. What to expect…. Overview and status of EFAInfo Content and Analysis
Plans of activities for 2009
Discussion of applications
20 slides! – 10 minutes?
10th Regional Meeting of National EFA Coordinators
5 May 2009

3. EFAInfo Overview
Developed to support the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment: Pan-Asia & Pacific Reflects in its structure the set of MDA indicators – both core and policy/system indicators (quantitative & qualitative), and/but open for customization Provides opportunity and tool to engage in policy/planning dialogue with an evidence base To be released in 2009 using new DevInfo 6.0 software

4. Objectives at 2 levels Country-level
Provide a tool and template for national customization to compile, monitor, present and analyze relevant education data towards decision-making
Regional
Develop a regional database as record of the Asia and Pacific EFA MDA integrated with education-related, national and sub-national disaggregated data. Coverage includes:
Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, South-East Asia, Pacific

5. Partner Engagement Good traction with national MOE & regional partners
As a tool in capacity building towards better evidence-based policy/planning and
As added value component to existing EMIS
As opportunity dialogue and clarify confusion around national and international data
Questions remain in national integration / implementation

6. Organization – by Goal / Sector6

7. Contents & Analysis

8. Database Contents National Education data International data
National EFA Mid-Decade Assessment Data
Education Yearbooks / Statistics reports
International data
EFA Global Monitoring Report (UNESCO)
State of the World’s Children Report (UNICEF)
GenderInfo (UNSD)
Millennium Development Goals (UNDP/UNSD)
Household survey data
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) – South, East and Central Asia
Living standards survey (LLSMS)
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
Special studies
Literacy, Disabilities, Caste and Ethnicity, Economic surveys,
Rural education

9. As experience in ECCE increases, survival in primary education also increases fairly consistently
Source: EFA GMR 2008, Mongolia, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

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Source: Mongolia MICS, 2005

11. Source: Papua New Guinea, School Census, 2007

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Source: EFA GMR 2008

13. Source: Myanmar provisional EFA MDA dataset15
Source: Myanmar provisional EFA MDA dataset

14. Legislative, policy and institutional reform exist that are in conformance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Cambodia
RATIFIED CEDAW – Date of Accession, 15 October 1992
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) expressed concern at the fact that primary education is not compulsory and that there are gender disparities in school attendance. The Committee on the Rights of Women (CEDAW) is also concerned about the disparity in school enrollment for males and females and the high drop-out rates of girls. Early and forced marriages are among the obstacles that prevent girls from continuing their education.
PNG
RATIFIED CEDAW - Date of Accession, 12 January 1995
Myanmar
RATIFIED CEDAW - Date of Accession, 22 July 1997
“It is generally accepted that gender differences in Myanmar, in education or any other field, have been slight overall. The Government approves of the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, as under its accession to CEDAW.”
Viet Nam
RATIFIED CEDAW - Date of Accession, 17 February 1982
The Vietnamese Communist Party and State consider the gender parity and women advancement as the important target in the process of country development. In principle, the gender parity has been achieved in ECCE and other sub-sectors.”

15. Indicators of Quality Education
Source: Sri Lanka School census, Ministry of Education

16. Quality Education inputs and its effects on performance
Source: Sri Lanka School census, Ministry of Education

17. Source: Vanuatu, MEYDT, Digest of Education Statistics, 200719
Source: Vanuatu, MEYDT, Digest of Education Statistics, 2007

18. Source: Vanuatu, MEYDT, Digest of Education Statistics, 2007

19. Steps Forward

20. (interpretation and analysis of data – linked to policy/planning)
2009: Roll-Out / Extension
Release of Asia & Pacific EFAInfo
East Asia
Data for Education decision-making Workshop: Linking evidence to planning and action
Evidence for Advocacy Workshop: focussing on gender equality in education
South Asia
Evidence for Education Advocacy Workshop
Emphasis will be placed on creating a demand for data and strengthening skills for application
(interpretation and analysis of data – linked to policy/planning)

21. Strengthening support to sector monitoring
How can we better/best suit the needs of national MOE and EFA Forum?
How can we align our sectoral work to monitor EFA with national statistics bureau?
How can regional training most effectively extend to and support national activities?

22. UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office
thank you
Jon F. Kapp
Education Specialist
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office