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Local Education Donor Group and UNESCO

Local Education Donor Group and UNESCO. Teeluck Bhuwanee, Coordinator GSE Mexico– 04 November 2009. Local Education Donor Group Groupe Sectoriel Education (GSE).

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Local Education Donor Group and UNESCO

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  1. Local Education Donor Group and UNESCO Teeluck Bhuwanee, CoordinatorGSE Mexico– 04 November 2009

  2. Local Education Donor GroupGroupe Sectoriel Education (GSE) • Members : about 15 agenciesactivelycooperating (AECID, IADB, CIDA, EU, FRANCE, SWISS, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNESCO, USAID, WB, WFP…etc ) • Coordination by UNESCO: monthly meetings since 2003 (60th meeting) Terms of Reference of LEG : • Exchange of information and commonactivities (projects, surveys, discussions etc) on major education issues • Coordinated effort/synergyamongmembers on priorities • Setting up of Working Groups on different issues and follow up • Technical and financial support to the Ministry of Education

  3. Achievements • Better understanding of each other’s projects and activities • Common knowledge regarding education priorities • Agreement and coordinated effort on main actions to be undergone • Planning together for 2010-2012 • E.g. Designed the FTI project proposal accepted by the Catalytic Fund in August 2009 for 22 million USD

  4. Education statistics: Haiti • Net enrollment ratio 2002-2003: 56.37% preschool 76% Basic (1st and 2nd cycles) 22% Post basic and secondary • Number of out of school children: 6 to 11 years old: 400,000 • Over-aged students 2002-2003: preschool 38%, Basic 72% . • Schooling expense per child: 109 USD per year • Illiteracy rate 13 years and over (national average): 57.24% (women: 59.14%, men 55.27%) • Education share of the Budget: 10.8%: 2009-2010

  5. Haitian government priorities as expressed in National Strategy 2008 and Action Plan • Improve equity in the development and protection of early childhood • Improve equity in the access to formal and non formal education • Improve the internal efficiency of basic and post-basic education • Improve the external efficiency of basic and post-basic education • Improve the overall management and governance of the system.

  6. Specific Objectives to achieve EFA • Emphasis on access of poor communities, by reducing school fees (currently 4,360 HGTS -109 USD- per year) and by providing each of the 565 communal sections with a public school of at least six classrooms • Increasing the quality of basic education (1st - 2nd cycle) by designing a relevant curriculum, fostering trained and qualified (certified) teachers and schools principals • Need for an education geared to Skills Development, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as a booster to the economy and employment

  7. Investment in education • Limited by government, low budget, inadequate funding • External funding (each country and agency having its own modalities and sometimes priority) still not totally coordinated, dispersed due to weak institutional leadership and low capacity • External funding still project based and not using sector-wide approach

  8. Gaps in funding the National Strategy 2009-2012 • Total costs 714.6 m $ • Domestic funding 435.3 m $ • External support 176.5 m $ • Funding gaps (after donor contribution) 102.7 m $ Total Funding gap 279.3 m $ • EFA Fast Track Initiative: 23 m for 3 years

  9. Priorities of funding to ensure sustainability of the educational system • Developing and strengthening the public system for the poor by progressive state funding of education while allowing private schooling • Establishing norms and standards • Broadening access, equity and ensuring quality through more relevant curriculum and better trained teachers • Getting community and parental participation • Pilot at local level like the FTI to ensure adequate funding and limit dispersion

  10. Thank you for your attention Teeluck Bhuwanee Head of Office and UNESCO Representative

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