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Progress from specificity: How to monitor the Paris Declaration in the Malawi education sector

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At the time of writing, it is not possible to measure progress accurately, or even assess the baseline status of aid effectiveness in the education sector. Twelve targets en route to the five objectives of the Paris Declaration were set and agreed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); they were to be measured nationally and monitored internationally. These indicators, though, are not specific to either the sector as a whole, or any individual country. While they provide a useful framework within which the effectiveness of aid can be pursued, specificity must be demanded at country and sector level to maximize the potential of harmonized, aligned, government-owned, accountable, and results-managed aid. This article takes a step towards addressing this problem, documenting for the first time the sector- and country-specific targets and indicators for the education sector in Malawi.

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  1. Further exploration of the impact of this policy decision is presented in EFA-FTI (2008), Foster (2007) and Booth et al. (2006).

  2. One recommendation within the FTI report was to increase the amount of money made available to each school through Direct Support to Schools. One option was that some teaching and learning materials should be procured locally. This will have obvious implications for the national procurement system as well as for centralized MoEST procurement methods.

  3. Good initial analysis of the five principles is presented in the two OECD DAC evaluations to date, the first conducted in 2006 and the second in 2008 (OECD DAC 2007; OECD DAC 2008).

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Collins, L. Progress from specificity: How to monitor the Paris Declaration in the Malawi education sector. Prospects 39, 163–183 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-009-9111-4

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