The Education For All Fast-Track Initiative (EFA-FTI)

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The Education For All Fast-Track
Initiative(EFA-FTI)
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What is the EFA Fast-Track Initiative?

• The Education for All - Fast Track Initiative
  (FTI) is a global partnership between developing
  countries and donors to accelerate progress
  towards the goal of universal completion of
  quality primary education by 2015.
• Partners include 30 bilateral and multilateral
  donor agencies
• All low-income countries (IDA eligible) may
  receive some form of support

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The ContextInternational Agreements
World EFA Conference March 1990, Jomtien,
Thailand
Monterrey Consensus 2002
World Education Forum 6 EFA goals April 2000,
Dakar, Senegal
Declarations on Harmonization and Aid
Effectiveness Rome (2003) - Paris (2005)
Millennium Declaration 8 MDGs September 2000,
New York, USA
FTI Partnership
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The ContextEducation For All Goals - Dakar

• Early childhood care and education
• Free quality primary education of good quality
• Young people and adults have access to
  appropriate learning and life-skills programmes
• 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult
  literacy by 2015
• Eliminating gender disparities in primary and
  secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender
  equality in education by 2015
• Improving all aspects of the quality of education

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The ContextMillennium Development Goals

• Goal 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
• Target 3 Ensure that all boys and girls complete
  a full course of primary schooling
• - Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary Education
  (UNESCO)
• - Proportion of Pupils Starting Grade 1 who
  Reach Grade 5 (UNESCO)
• Literacy Rate of 15-24 year-olds (UNESCO)
• Goal 3. Promote Gender Equality and
  Empower Women
• Target 4 Eliminate gender disparity in primary
  and secondary education preferably by 2005, and
  at all levels by 2015
• - Ratio of Girls to Boys in Primary,
  Secondary, and Tertiary Education (UNESCO)
• - Ratio of Literate Women to Men 15-24 years
  old (UNESCO)

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Why was FTI created?

• To accelerate progress towards the education MDG
  targets of UPC.
• Progress has been made but there are still 77
  million children are out of school 44 million
  are girls.
• Official Development Assistance (ODA) for
  education has more than doubled since 2000.
  However, ODA levels are still far below the
  estimated needs of 9BN per annum.

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The FTI Compact

• Partner Countries
• Develop sound education sector programs through
  broad based consultation
• Demonstrate results on key performance
  indicators
• Exercise leadership in developing and
  implementing the program and coordinating donor
  support

• Donors
• Help mobilize resources and make them more
  predictable
• Align with country development priorities
• Coordinate support around one education plan
• Harmonize procedures as much as possible

Mutual Accountability
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FTI Appraisal Process

• FTI has created a tool, the Appraisal Guidelines,
  to help development partners assess the primary
  education sector of an education sector plan.
• Purpose
• Encourage dialogue on key policy issues
  including
• Adequacy of the knowledge base
• Strategy toward achievement of the MDG/EFA Goal,
  including HIV/AIDS and gender responsiveness
• Ownership by all stakeholders
• Absorptive capacity and financial sustainability

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Expected Outcomes of the Appraisal

• A set of well-justified recommendations on

• Volume composition of financial and other
  resources available to support the program
• Key areas for capacity building
• Support to close prioritized knowledge/data gaps
• Arrangements for monitoring and evaluation
• All donors align their support to this one program

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The FTI Endorsement Process
Country prepares a poverty reduction strategy and
an education sector plan. Sector Plan should be
linked to broader budget and macro economic
planning frameworks.
Education sector plan is jointly appraised by the
government and the donor group, usually including
the World Bank. Each agency is responsible for
ensuring that rigorous technical analysis and
appropriate internal consultations are conducted
during the appraisal process to enable the
endorsement process to be completed.
Lead donor sends sector plan, appraisal report
and signed endorsement letter to the FTI
Secretariat
FTI Secretariat informs the full Partnership of
the endorsement
Additional resources committed through domestic,
bilateral and multilateral channels as well as
the Catalytic Fund
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Current and Potential FTI Countries
Endorsed Countries (31) Endorsed Countries (31) Endorsed Countries (31) Countries pending for 2007 (15) Countries expected in 2008 (15)
2002 Burkina Faso Mauritania Angola Bolivia
Guinea Nicaragua Bhutan CAR
Guyana Niger Bangladesh Congo DRC
Honduras Burundi Eritrea
2003 The Gambia Vietnam Chad India
Mozambique Yemen Congo, Rep. Indonesia
2004 Ghana Ethiopia Georgia Lao PDR
2005 Kenya Moldova Guinea-Bissau Malawi
Lesotho Tajikistan Haiti Nigeria
Madagascar Timor Leste Kiribati Pakistan
2006 Albania Mali Papua New Guinea Sri Lanka
Cambodia Mongolia Sao Tome e Pr. Tanzania
Cameroon Rwanda Solomon Islands Togo
Djibouti Senegal Vanuatu Tonga
Kyrgyz Rep. Zambia Uganda
2007 Benin Liberia
Sierra Leone
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FTI Indicative Framework

• Suggested benchmarks (not targets) drawn from
  analysis of successful countries. Crucial for
  long-term sustainability of MDG progress.

• INDICATORS
• Government spending on education about 20 of
  budget
• Spending on primary education about 50 of
  education budget
• Teacher salary about 3.5 times GDP per capita
• Pupil-teacher ratio about 401
• Non-teacher salary spending 33 of recurrent
  spending
• Average repetition rate 10 or lower
• Annual hours of instruction 850 or more

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What Support Does FTI Offer?

• In-country resource mobilization among donors
  and through other channels. FTI partnership
  provides a global platform.
• Resource mobilization for countries with few
  donors Catalytic Fund (CF)
• Capacity development support Upstream and
  downstream - Education Program Development Fund

To low-income countries with PRS and sector
program, appraised and endorsed by supporting
donors
To all low-income countries
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Mobilizing additional resources

• The FTI seeks to mobilize additional resources
  for education through four channels
• Domestic resources moving towards the benchmark
  of 20 of government expenditure
• Bilateral and multilateral donors (including IDA)
  already present in the country
• Donors including private sector donors and
  foundations - not yet present in the country who
  are willing to provide new funding through the
  FTI framework
• FTI Catalytic Fund

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FTI Catalytic Fund

• Multi Donor Trust Fund managed by the World Bank
• Provides funding in the form of grants to help
  close the financing gap for countries with
  limited donor presence, while mobilizing more
  sustainable support through regular bilateral and
  multilateral channels.

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CF Contributions and Pledges (in US millions)
Country 2003-2004 2005 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 Total 2003-2009 Cumulative payments
Belgium 1.3 2.6 1.2 1.3 6.4 5.1
Canada 17 17 17
EC - - 40.3 20.2 20.2 80.7 40.3
Ireland - 1.5 4.5 11.8 19.2 37.0 6
Italy 2.4 2.4 1.3 - 6.1 6.1
Netherlands 39.5 54.3 185 168 168 614.8 279.1
Norway 6 8.1 40.6 - 54.7 54.7
Russia 1 2 1 4 3
Spain - 6 9 6.5 6.5 28 15
Sweden - 5.3 10.4 - 15.7 15.7
UK - - 129.1 124.4 16.8 270.35 129.1
49.2 80.2 439.4 334.2 231.7 1,134.7 571.1
As of April 2007
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Education Program Development Fund (EPDF)

• Multi-donor trust fund administered by the World
  Bank
• OBJECTIVES
• Increase the number of low-income countries with
  sound and sustainable education sector programs
• Strengthen country capacity to develop policies
  and sector programs through a broad-based
  consultative process
• Improve and share knowledge of what works
• Strengthen donor partnerships and harmonization
  at the country level
• Strengthen partnerships with regional networks
  and institutions

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Education Program Development Fund Contributions
and Pledges (in US millions)
Country 2005 2006/7 2007/8 2008/9 Total 2005-2009 Cumulative payments
Canada 3.4 3.4 3.4
Ireland 0.95 0.94 1.25 3.14 0.95
France 1.74 1.74 1.74
Luxembourg 1.3 1.3 1.3
Netherlands 1.5 6 6 13.5 1.5
Norway 4.87 30 34.87 34.87
Russia 1.2 2 3.2
Sweden 2.6 2.6 2.6
UK 0.94 4.96 5.3 1.0 12.21 5.9
5.81 46.45 13.46 10.24 75.96 52.26
As of April 2007
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FTI Organization
FTI PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS
PARTNER COUNTRIES
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FTI Secretariat Contacts
Secretariat Staff Liaison for Contact information
Desmond Bermingham Head dbermingham_at_worldbank.org 202-458-7169
Robert Prouty Deputy Head rprouty_at_worldbank.org 202-473-7532
Kouassi Soman Economist ksoman_at_worldbank.org 202-473-4713
Luc-Charles Gacougnolle Education and Data Specialist lgacougnolle_at_worldbank.org 202-458-2050
Palak Mehra Operations Officer (Trust Funds Administration) pmehra_at_worldbank.org 202-458-9826
Anna Triponel Governance Officer atriponel_at_worldbank.org 202-473-2400
Chantal Rigaud Sr. Program Assistant crigaud_at_worldbank.org 202-458-9746
Michelle Mesen Sr. Program Assistant mmesen_at_worldbank.org 202-458-5589
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