Education for All Working Group

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Education for All Working Group Third
Meeting Group 4 Assessing progress - bridging
the data gap
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Two objectives

• To assist national policy making
• Allow assessment of progress towards the Dakar
  goals for all countries
• Note Tension between building sustainable data
  collection systems in country and provision of
  timely data internationally

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International level Areas where progress could
be made
? Agree a set of core indicators to be used by
all international organizations (cost partial
picture not always useful at
national level) ? Recognise that data
collection is expensive (Some felt strongly that
donors should fund.) ? Make better use of
existing data (e.g., where possible make more use
of survey data to complete administrative data)
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Country level

• ? Recognise that priorities for data needs
  change over time
• (e.g., Bangladesh learning time very important)
• ? Make great use of qualitative measures
• ? Build upon existing databases
• ? Need for independent verification

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Possible Action following EFA Working Group
Meeting
? Greater agreement on core indicators
internationally Need to ang heads together (UIS
to convene?) ? Greater donor funding for data
collection (e.g., Put aside percentage of Fast
Track spending for this purpose USAID to
pursue?) ? Encourage establishment of
independent verification at country level
could be done by education specific bodies or
general statistical bodies (To be discussed at
country level)
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• ? Try to get richer data to complete core
  indicators in some countries
• Use more innovative approaches to inform us or
  e.g., gender / HIV/AIDS issues
• (Not clear who would do this.)