The Education For All FastTrack Initiative EFAFTI

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The Education For All Fast-Track
Initiative(EFA-FTI)
By Desmond Bermingham AAI March 29, 2007
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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, Thaila
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Monterrey Consensus 2002
World Education Forum 6 EFA goals April 2000, Da
kar, Senegal
Declarations on Harmonization and Aid Effectiv
eness
Rome (2003) - Paris (2005)
Millennium Declaration 8 MDGs
September 2000, New York, USA
FTI Partnership
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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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Sector-wide Approach
Other (voc. training, adult literacy, etc.)
FTI supports primary education as part of an
overall education strategy
Secondary Education
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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
CF recipients
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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
• Grants for countries with continuing financing
  needs
  
• Intended to crowd in financing from other
  sources
  
• Disbursements to date 130.1 million
• Pledges for 07/08 430 M
• Pledges for 08/09 330M

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CF Contributions and Pledges (in US millions)
As of end February 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)
As of end February 2007
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FTI Organization
FTI PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS
PARTNER COUNTRIES
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DFID and Education

• 10-year 15 billion commitment to education made
  by Gordon Brown in April 2006 (a sharp increase
  from a total of less than 4 billion over the
  previous 10 years)
• In 2005, Make Poverty History forced
  governments to make promises on aid. Now, in 2006
  it is time for us to keep our promises. None is
  more important than the Millennium Development
  Goal that by 2015 every one of the worlds
  children is able to go to school. Gordon Brown

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High Level Education EventMay 2, 2007 - Brussels

• Convened by Louis Michel, Gordon Brown and Paul
  Wolfowitz (EC, UK, World Bank)
  
• Key messages
• Urgent action is needed now (2007/8 mid-point to
  2015 MDGs)
  
• Remarkable progress made, but huge challenges
  remain
  
• Education goals are within reach
• Long term predictable financing is essential
  (approx. 12 per child in developing world)
  
• Donors need to align their efforts
• More aid to basic education
• More aid to low income countries
• Domestic efforts need to be increased also
• Holistic sector-wide approach to education

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