Capnam, UNESS, GEQF: UNESCO tools to support education planning

Capnam, UNESS, GEQF: UNESCO tools to support education planning

The Paris declaration On 2 March 2005, a group of countries and multilateral organisations came together in Paris to declare that development (aid) should have the following characteristics: Ownership Alignment Harmonisation Management for results Mutual accountability

UNESCO: Upstream technical assistance Given its function as a laboratory of ideas, UNESCO has developed tools for its member states to help them achieve the goals stipulated within the framework of Education for All This is considered upstream work: cooperation in research, planning, monitoring, evaluation, and development of strategies and policies rather than achievement of concrete objectives The purpose is to help member states help themselves instead of creating a relation of dependence it is better to learn to fish than to be given one For this reason, it is of critical importance to be aware of what exists already, in terms of infrastructure, expertise and capacity Design of policies, laws, programmes Project management, monitoring and y evaluation Implementation (pedagogy, infrastructure, management)

Available tools: a menu Tool Origin Function OpenEmis UNESCO Open source information system UNESS (and UNDAF) UNESCO, UN Mechanism to harmonise aid to a country CapNam UNESCO Tool for needs assessment DQAF UIS Diagnosis of national education statistics system Dataplan UIS Road map to filling in questionnaires

CapNam: Understanding needs in educational planning The Capnam methodology (acronym for Capacity Needs Assessment Methodology) was developed by UNDP to assist in identifying needs within a national civil service, from the philosophy that capacities are fundamental This methodology was adapted through a cooperation between UNDP and UNESCO to be applied in the field of education planning Capnam was, so far, applied in 2 pilot countries: Armenia and Democratic Republic of the Congo It is important to highlight that Capnam is not only intended as a diagnosis there is also a follow-up procedure

Capnam: step by step

Capnam matrix

Table Engage stakeholders Assess situation & set the mandate Create policy strategies and programmes Outline budgetary process Implement pogrammes M&E and course correction Institutional and contextual arrangements - Laws, rules and regulations -Cross-ministry Government policies and strategies Organizational structure : -Ministerial structure and relationship - Line of communication (bottomup / top-down) - Accountability mechanism Capacity at individual level : - Leadership different levels -Functional skills Knowledge base : - Data and information - Analysis and studies

Capnam: the process

UNESS: mechanism to strategically support countries To ensure that technical assistance can be relevant, effective and efficient, it is crucial to operate strategically UNESS (UNESCO Education Support Strategy) is a mechanism to strategically plan cooperation between UNESCO and its member states, considering: Which are the programmatic and political of the country in question (to ensure that the country would be the leader / owner of the process of cooperation). What the other international partners and unilateral or bilateral organisations are doing (to avoid overlap and create synergies). Which are the strengths / strategic competencies of UNESCO. A UNESS begins with a Seminar with stakeholders, including officials of the Ministry of Education, Planning, Statistics Institutes and other financial and technical partners including United Nations agencies to be operate from a basis of consensus

UNESS: the structure The seminar results in a reference document, which will be the basis for the cooperation, which has the following structure: Ch. 1: National development challenges and priorities Social, economic and human development context National development context Ch. 2: Challenges, priorities and strategies in education National education context and challenges National priorities and strategies in education Ch. 3: Priorities and intervention areas of development partners Ch. 4: The programmatic orientation of UNESCO UNESCO s support to education development UNESCO s programmatic priorities in education Ch. 5: Strategies for national educational development Emerging gaps and needs in education Proposed interventions: areas and strategies

UNDAF: 4 critical elements UNDAF (United Nations Development Assistance Framework) is the principal tool of the United Nations to plan assistance to countries. There are 4 critical steps: 1. Preparation of a road map 2. Country analysis 3. Strategic planning: matrix of results 4. Monitoring and evaluation There are 5 programmatic principles: being human rightsbased; gender equity; ecological sustainability; results-based management; capacity development

Option 1A

Option 1B

GEQF

In summary UNESCO-OREALC is available for Member States to provide technical assistance to improve all aspects of education, including planning, monitoring and evaluation Said tools can help improve the structure of the cooperation and establish a strategic framework for the concrete activities to be jointly implemented And, for us, the programmatic principles are paramount: that os to say, the Member States have to lead the process

Thank you For more information, please, contact: Moritz BILAGHER Programme Specialist (Monitoring & Evaluation) UNESCO Santiago / OREALC Santiago, Chile E-mail: m.bilagher@unesco.org Tel. +56-2-4724601