Publication: Public Expenditure Tracking Survey : Afghanistan - Education Sector, Synthesis Report
Date
2011-02
ISSN
Published
2011-02
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The Public Expenditure Tracking Survey
(PETS) looked at four components essential to the
strengthening and development of the education sector in
Afghanistan: 1) the payment of staff salaries; 2) the
availability and use of an operations and maintenance
(O&M) budget to support administrative teams and
schools; 3) the construction of new schools through the
Education Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP); and 4) the
distribution of textbooks. The overall objective of the PETS
is to understand the dynamics of resource flows in the
education sector, to articulate a number of recommendations
to improve effectiveness of this resource flow and increase
the impact of reforms in the education sector in
Afghanistan. This first study will focus on key aspects of
resource flow: the extent to which public resources reach
service-delivery points (schools); the timeliness of that
delivery; the type and scale of bottlenecks and anomalies in
the system that may result in delay or leakage of inputs to
services; the capacity and flexibility available amongst
local officials at all levels to address these bottlenecks.
The report is organized as follows: section two presents an
overview of the financial landscape of education in the
country as well as specific profiles of the three provinces
and districts where the research was carried out. Section
three looks at the issues related to the payment of salaries
and wages to teachers. Section four presents the factors
that lead to inefficiencies in meeting the O&M needs of
schools and provincial offices. Section five presents the
state of completion of schools under EQUIPs and analyses the
reasons that lead to these in the three provinces. Section
six tracks the distribution of textbooks to provinces from
the central level to the schools.
Citation
“World Bank. 2011. Public Expenditure Tracking Survey : Afghanistan - Education Sector, Synthesis Report. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/d114d4c8-306c-5712-8501-cbc39867977b License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”