Philippine Country EFA MidDecade Assessment: Context and Status

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Philippine Country EFA Mid-Decade Assessment
Context and Status
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OVERALL POLICY/PLANNING FRAMEWORK FOR BASIC
EDUCATION
Global EFA 2015 Goals and Targets Millennium
Development Goals
International
Philippine EFA 2015 Plan Medium-Term Philippine
Development Plan for Basic Education
National
Regional
Regional Basic Education Development Plan
Division Basic Education Development Plan
Division
School Improvement Plan
Baranggay ECE and ALS Priorities
School/Community
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Country Level Monitoring and Evaluation Efforts

• EFA Task 9. Regular monitoring of progress
  towards the attainment of EFA goal and targets.
  
• This task will entail the following
• designation of a core group or dedicated unit at
  different levels capacitated to monitor
  policies, programs and projects to attain the EFA
  goal and
• monitoring of actual effort undertaken by all
  stakeholders and learning outcomes that result
  from these efforts.

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Country Level Monitoring and Evaluation Efforts

• Status of Phil EFA Task 9 Implementation
• Validation of the Unified Basic Education Sector
  (EFA) Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
• Establishment of DepED EFA Planning and
  Monitoring and Evaluation Teams at different
  levels (national, regional and divisional levels)
  which will coordinate the continuous process of
  assessment and planning for improvement.

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Draft Sector ME Framework
Sub-Sectors
Providers
Outcomes/Results Indicators
Overall Goal of Phil EFA
Component Objectives
DepED LGUs Private Sector NGOs Other GOs
ECE
Learning Outcomes (Access, Efficiency, Quality
and Equity)
Elem
Sec
Immediate Results
ALS
Enhanced learning environment
Improved effectiveness and efficiency of
support system
Strengthened Schools/Learning Centers
Improved effectiveness of learning facilitators
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Country Level Monitoring and Evaluation Efforts

• Status (cont..)
• Initial capacity-building of the DepED EFA
  Planning and ME Teams nationwide on Sector
  Monitoring and Evaluation and Strategic Planning.
• Preparation of the Draft Regional and Country
  EFA Mid-Decade Assessment Reports by DepED.
• Adoption of the National EFA Committee to
  lead/coordinate the EFA MDA process

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EFA Implementation Coordination Machinery
National EFA Committee
National
National EFA Secretariat (DepED)
Regional Development Council-Social Development
Committee
Regional
Secretariat (DepED or NEDA)
Local Development Council/Literacy Coordinating
Council
Provincial, Mun./City/ Brgy Levels
Composed of basic education
multi-stakeholders where DepED and Education
Network (Network of NGOs) serve as Chair and
Co-Chair, respectively
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Composition of the National EFA Committee

• Chair Department of Education
• Co-Chair Education Network (Network of NGOs)
• Members
• Other Government Agencies involved in the actual
  delivery and/or policy making, national
  coordination, advocacy in basic education
• Representatives from the Local Government Units
• (Union of Local Authorities in the Phil)
• Representatives from the Private/Business Sector
  (League of Corporate Foundations)
• Representatives from the Congress
• Phil Representative to the UNACOM
• SEAMEO-INNOTECH

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Functions of the National EFA Committee

• National plan preparation/updating
• National coordination
• Policy making
• Social mobilization
• Resource mobilization
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Overseeing the creation and operation of
  sub-national alliances

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EFA Technical Working Groups (within the
National EFA Committee)

• 1. Early Childhood Education member
  agencies/organization of the ECCD Council
• Formal Basic Education (Elementary and Secondary)
  multi-stakeholders with DepED as lead
• 3. Alternative Learning System (for OSYs and
  Adults) Literacy Coordinating Council and
  Bureau of Alternative Learning System of DepED
• 4. Governance, Management and Finance multi
  stakeholders with DepED as the lead

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• Objectives of the Country EFA MDA
• 1. use the assessment process as an entry point
  to implement the urgent and critical task of EFA
  on monitoring of progress in attaining EFA goal
  and targets
• 2. assess the progress of the country towards the
  2005 Phil EFA goal and targets viz. global
  EFA goals and strategies, especially in terms of
  reducing disparities

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• Objectives (cont)
• review policies, programs, projects, activities
  and services in ECE, FBE and ALS particularly in
  the following areas
• curriculum and instruction
• human resource development (e.g., training of
  learning facilitators)
• education resources (hard/software)
• quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation
• governance and management (incl.
  multi-stakeholders coordination)
• budget and finance

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• Objectives (cont)
• 3. utilize the results of the assessment to
  develop/update the EFA Implementation Plans at
  different levels and recommend policy changes
  and
• 4. build the capabilities of ME Teams at
  different levels on continuous process of
  assessment and planning for improvement.

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Approach of the Country EFA MDA Process

• 1. Adaptation of the Global EFA MDA Report
  Outline/ requirements
• 2. Engagement of different stakeholders at
  different levels (through the National EFA
  Committee)
• 3. Utilization of learning by doing approach
• 4. Conduct of special surveys to gather
  data/information on selected additional EFA
  indicators which are not yet available

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• Country EFA MDA Coordination Task Force
• National MDA Coordinator DepED Undersecretary
  for Regional Operations
• Taps the Governance, Management and Finance (GMF)
  TWG Chair is the DepED Assistant Secretary for
  Planning
• Members of the GMF TWG includes the Chairs of the
  ECE, FBE and ALS TWGs
• National EFA Committee Secretariat (Office of
  Planning Service of DepED) backstops the GMF
  TWG in coordinating the Country MDA process

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• Some areas for further analysis
• 1. Unreached/under-served groups
• 2. Financing of basic education by the
  government (national, local), NGOs,
  private/business sector, ODA

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• Some areas for further analysis (cont..)
• EFA Coordination
• Lead EFA-GMF TWG
• Take-off point recommendations of the EFA 1
  Assessment
• Focus of assessment strengths and weaknesses of
  the adopted mechanisms for coordination (Social
  Development Committee vs. National EFA Committee)
  viz. key functions of National EFA Coordination
  Committee/Forum

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• Some areas for further analysis (cont..)
• 4. Analysis of the six EFA goals
• By Phil EFA goal/theme (ECE, UPE/UBE and ALS)
  viz. Global EFA goal
• Gender and quality goals will be discussed per
  theme
• Inclusion of Summary of Analysis highlighting
  cross-cutting issues
• Example Gender Parity Index across diff.
  goals
• Classification of Regional Performance
  across goals

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• Some areas for further analysis (cont..)
• 4. Analysis of the six EFA goals (cont..)
• Discussion of policies, programs and projects in
  each theme will focus on
• a) learning standards
• b) curriculum and instruction
• c) human resource development
• d) education resources
• e) quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation
  
• f) governance and management and
• g) budget and finance.

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• Some areas for further analysis (cont..)
• 5. Documented good/best practices to be featured
  in the Country MDA Report
• Reaching the Un-reached/Under-Served Groups
• Literacy Program which received Hall of Fame
  Award from the national government
• Basic education program(s) for Working Children
• Student Tracking System

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• Some areas for further analysis (cont..)
• Good/best practices (cont..)
• c. Initiatives addressing quality
• Reading Program in the elementary level
  (particularly for Grades 1 to 3 )
• b. School-Community Partnership
• Project IMPACT (Instruction Managed by Parents,
  Community and Teachers)

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• Some areas for further analysis (cont..)
• 4. Good/best practices (cont..)
• d. School-Local Government Partnership
• Local School Board which adopted a
  performance-based programming of Local Government
  Unit (LGU) resources

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• Country EFA MDA Milestones
• Convening of the NEC to present and discuss the
  Country EFA MDA Framework and Status
• Collection and analysis of additional
  data/information
• Refinement and finalization of the CMDA (through
  consultations with various stakeholders at
  different levels)
• Endorsement of the CMDA by the NEDA-Social
  Development Committee, Cabinet Level
• Submission of the Final CMDA Report to UNESCO

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