Education For All Fast Track Initiative EFA FTI Summary of Progress 2005

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Education For All Fast Track Initiative(EFA-
FTI)Summary of Progress 2005
Annual FTI meeting November, 2005

• Rosemary Bellew
• FTI Secretariat
• November, 2005

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Presentation Plan

• FTI Compact
• Highlights of 2004
• Priorities and Highlights of 2005 Country
  Progress
• Resource Mobilization donor performance
• Regular Channels
• Catalytic Fund Status
• Education Program Development Fund Status
• Donor Alignment, Collaboration and Harmonization
• Communications
• Priority Challenges for 2006-2007

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The FTI COMPACT

• Partner Countries
• Develop sound education sector programs through
  broad based consultation
• Demonstrate results on key performance
  indicators, including domestic resource
  mobilization
• Exercise leadership in developing and
  implementing the program within broader country
  development priorities (e.g. PRS)
• Coordinate donor support

Donors Increase support in a predictable
manner Align with country development
priorities Coordinate support around one
education plan Harmonize procedures as much as
possible
Mutual Accountability
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Highlights of 2004 FTI Framework Document
Adopted

• Access by invitation 18 countries, 5 countries
  for analytical fast track
• Vertical Program decisions made at the global
  level, supply driven
• Resource mobilization at global level

• Support to all low-income (IDA-eligible)
  countries
• Country-based, country led, process of program
  development endorsement, demand driven
• Resource mobilization starts
• at the country level

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Highlights of 2004 (continued)

• Greater emphasis on donor alignment,
  collaboration and harmonization where possible
• Education Program Development Fund concept
  developed
• Began communication effort
• Two new countries develop sector programs,
  bringing total to 13 of the initial 18 countries
  invited in 2002
• Established FTI working groups on finance,
  harmonization and communications

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FTI Partnership Priorities in 2005

• Improved resource mobilization
• Strengthened focus on alignment, coordination and
  harmonization at country level
• Launching the EPDF
• Exploring other issues FTI governance, fragile
  states and expanded fund
• Intensifying communications and country outreach

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Highlights 2005 Country Progress

• Five new countries with appraised and endorsed
  sector plans (add Timor Leste and Djibouti)
• Broader scope and improved quality of country
  programs (e.g. Kenya, Madagascar)

Countries with four or fewer bilateral partners.
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Steady upward trend in primary completion in
most countries, but many will not achieve UPC by
2015 at recent rates of progress
Source UIS, World Bank and country data
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Gender parity -- If recent progress is
maintained, most would achieve gender parity in
enrolment by 2015
Gender parity Index (Nb of girls enrolled for 100
boys)
Source UIS, World Bank and country data
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Domestic Resource mobilization
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Challenges for Country Partners

• Completion of education
• Quality of education
• Improve efficiency of resource use, particularly
  cost of construction in some cases
• Increased and sustained domestic resource
  mobilization in some cases
• Finding the fiscal space to do this
• Country leadership in donor coordination

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How well are donors living up to their
commitments?

• Overall financing needs for basic education and
  current levels of ODA
• Recent trends in ODA and how it is allocated
• Progress towards meeting commitments to reach
  0.7 of GNI by 2015, 0.5 by 2010
• Progress in countries with endorsed sector
  programs

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ODA to Basic Education finance 43 of minimum
annual estimated needs will need to grow faster
than overall increases in ODA
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Source Gershberg , Gurria, Costing the
Education MDGs A Review of the Leading
Methodologies, FTI Finance Working Group Working
Paper, 2004.
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Good news Steady upward trend in total ODA and
especially to low-income countries.

• ODA disbursements increased from US 50 to US 64
  billion, (8.7 real annual growth)
• Donors are giving increased priority to
  low-income countries (11.5 annual growth rate)
• BUT, if donors are to meet the goal of increasing
  ODA by US 50 billion by 2010, faster growth is
  needed (12.2 annually)

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Slight upward trend in ODA as a share of DAC
countries GNIs

• ODA increased from .22 to .25 percent of GNI
• Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and
  Sweden reached or exceed the target
• Notable sustained increases in Belgium, France
  and Ireland
• Japan only country reducing its efforts

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Donors are giving greater priority to low-income
countries ..

• Some countries increased both share of GNI and
  share allocated to LICs Belgium, France,
  Norway, Sweden, Italy
• Some re-allocated within existing budgets
  Germany and Canada
• However, only half of DAC countries disbursed at
  least half of ODA to low-income countries

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Additional resource mobilization will depend
importantly on large economies..
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Basic Education ODA in LICS more than doubled --
US 0.9 to US 1.9 billion
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Resource Mobilization in Countries (18) with
endorsed sector plans, 2004 - 2005
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The devil is in the details Resource
Mobilization through regular channels

• Resource mobilization has been effective in
  countries with many donors
• Mozambique, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Burkina Faso
  donors have increased and new donors have joined
  at country level
• Absorptive capacity issues in many cases
• RM through regular channels has not been
  effective in countries with few bilateral donors
  CF is an important source of financing

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Resource Mobilization through the Catalytic Fund

• 12 of the 18 countries with endorsed programs are
  financed (or eligible for consideration) through
  the Catalytic Fund.
• Contributions doubled in 2005 (6 donors), and are
  projected to increase further in 2006/2007 with
  addition of EC, Ireland, UK

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CF Country Allocations

• 9 countries receive financing
• 2005 commitments only now being accessed
• With few exceptions (the Netherlands) donors are
  not stepping in to transit CF countries to more
  sustainable financing
• Predictability of CF resources is an issue

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Challenges to predictable, sustainable long term
financing through regular channels

• Bilaterals are unequally distributed, tend to
  congregate in same countries.
• 10 (of 78) countries have 8 or more bilateral
  donors
• Over 70 of countries (56) have four or fewer
  bilateral partners.
• Delegated cooperation is not easily, or quickly,
  established

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Future Demands
Target group
64
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Sub-total
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Other
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Future Financing Requirements

• ODA required more than doubles from US 1.3 to
  US 2.7 billion annually

• Over 75 of ODA is needed for donor orphans

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Additional contributions to the Catalytic Fund
will be needed

• Estimated ODA requirements among donor orphans
  may reach US 135 million in 2006 and 400
  million in 2007

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Education Program Development Fund Highlights

• Launched in South Asia, East Asia and Pacific,
  Latin America, Middle East and North Africa
  regions
• Support program development, analytical work,
  knowledge sharing across countries where gaps
• Executed by the World Bank
• Estimated demand in 2006 US 25.5 million

• Donors to the EPDF

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Donor Alignment Collaboration are improving

• Education is among the most advanced sectors in
  taking a Sector Wide Approach
• FTI has had a positive impact on cohesiveness of
  sector dialogue and alignment to country program
• Scope and quality of programs have improved
• Donor collaboration and use of common procedures
  has improved
• BUT, far less progress in utilizing Government
  procedures and still many projects

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Communications in 2005 Achievements

• Secretariat and a few donors made broad outreach
  efforts
• Information is available in all countries
• Ministers of Education or Technical staff of at
  least 26 countries have been briefed
• At least one donor in most countries have been
  reached
• Higher degree of international awareness and
  support (G8, Millennium Summit, etc.)

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But, much more needs to be done, particularly at
country level

• Agency partners need to make a more concerted
  effort to bring on board their own staff and
  provide incentives
• Facilitate cross-country exchange of experience
• FTI meetings can be better aligned with
  international finance meetings

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Priority Challenges for 2006-2007

• Strengthen Resource Mobilization and
  predictability
• Regular channels
• Catalytic Fund/Expansion Fund
• Support country level dialogue with IMF on fiscal
  space issues
• Intensify support to country level donors in
  alignment and harmonization
• All agencies -- staff, budget and INCENTIVES
• Facilitate sharing experience across countries
• Harmonize procedures across agencies at the
  global level (e.g. pooled funding)

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Priority Challenges for 2006-2007

• Improve Monitoring and Results Reporting
• Financing information from country level donors
  and HQ level
• Provide results of annual reviews (local donors)
• Ministries of Education better systems and make
  information publicly available
• Support UIS to monitor and report on key
  indicators in a more timely manner

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• THE END
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