Publication: Cameroon - Governance and Management in the Education Sector
Date
2012-03
ISSN
Published
2012-03
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
This report aims to analyze the extent
to which current governance and management practices
contribute to explaining differences in education outcomes,
focusing on three regions of Cameroon: the Littoral, Far
North, and North West. The three regions chosen for this
study differ considerably in terms of education performance,
with the Far North being the weakest at one end of the
spectrum, and the Littoral region being one of the best at
the other end. The report explores the connections between
governance and educational outcomes in these three regions,
using a qualitative approach. In-depth interviews with
government officials and school personnel, observations of
school operations, and reviews of documents were used to
analyze governance and accountability in both basic and
secondary education. Such approach is inductive, context
sensitive, and naturalistic, based on an iterative process
of knowledge generation. The analytical framework for the
study consists of two broad areas, public expenditure and
system functioning. Under public expenditure, the study
examines governance and accountability practices relating to
upstream financial decision making and execution. System
functioning covers activities that must take place
consistently over the school year and includes: teachers
(recruitment, deployment and transfers, and remuneration),
schools (monitoring of teacher performance, administration,
and school performance), and extra-government entities. In
addition, the report reviews contribution of the community
(the citizens and students who are the beneficiary) and the
extent to which they are able to demand acceptable standards
of service delivery in education is examined. The section on
extra-government entities briefly looks at their roles and
contributions in bringing about good governance.
Citation
“World Bank. 2012. Cameroon - Governance and Management in the Education Sector. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12262 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”