Smart Management-SIGED and POF

preparation

The objective of this TC is to support the improvement of the efficiency and equity in the allocation of resources in education by studying the capacity of the ministries of education in the region to generate, consolidate and analyze periodic and reliable information on the resources allocated to education. Specifically, the aim is for countries to: (i) be able to monitor educational spending at both the macro and micro levels, (ii) develop robust analyses of sector financing, the efficiency of education expenditures, their impact on equity, and the potential to generate savings through improved policies, reforms, and more efficient allocation of resources, (iii) conduct diagnostics and strengthen the institutional capacity of management teams in ministries and secretaries of education to manage, produce, and analyze education data, and to define targeted strategies to strengthen these systems and support evidence-based decision-making.