Uzbekistan Education System Capacity Building (SCB) Project

active

Prospective

The overall desired change that the Project intends to bring about is to drive the process toward better education outcomes through the availability of quality data and monitoring mechanisms: more timely, accurate, relevant and aggregated data available to end-users for decision-making, planning, management, monitoring and evaluation. The results-based system which will emerge from this intervention, which could consistently reflect on implementation, rate quality and address improvement of the quality of education services delivered by ministries will be a powerful tool for improving education in the country. Coherent data collection is the basis of such a system and fundamental to targeted, effective decision making.The implementation strategy retained by the Project is to (i) help identify bottlenecks that impede system alignment between education policy and practice in view of better learning outcomes and formulate relevant policy recommendations and solutions, and (ii) address the three key requirements for a functional national data management system, namely technology, processes and peoples.The strategy is to strengthen planning, management, and policy formulation functions of education ministries in relation to Partnership Compact for Education Reform implementation and more generally to foster evidence-based decision-making and accountability mechanisms through the provision of timely and accurate data and quality assurance systems.In terms of sector coordination and volume, efficiency, and equity of domestic financing, interventions will strengthen continuous policy dialogue through the establishment of education financing monitoring mechanisms at the level of the Ministry of Preschool and School Education. At systemic level, yearly sector planning exercises will be improved through capacity development and mobilization of expertise in evidence-based sector planning as linked to coordinated financing and education funding. Proposed interventions including the systemic tracking of expenditure, and the establishment of feedback mechanisms will ensure a more participatory budget process increasing participation of all relevant stakeholders, thus resulting in better adequacy, effectiveness, and efficiency. The project will cover the following 3 components: 1. Enhancing the capacity, effectiveness, and fairness of domestic financing, incorporating gender-sensitive, climate-responsive planning and policy formulation to achieve comprehensive systemic outcomes.  2. Mobilization of coordinated actions and financing to enable transformative change.3. Strengthening the capacity of EMIS (education management information system) to drive evidence-based decision-making.

FY17 - Education

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Government, Education