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Education Finance and Decentralization in Asia: Implications for Service Delivery

21.12.2010

From 3 to 5 November 2010 in Bangkok, the Education Policy and Reform Unit of the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education organized a regional policy seminar" Education Finance and Decentralization in Asia: Implications for Service Delivery"

From 3 to 5 November 2010 in Bangkok, the Education Policy and Reform Unit of the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education organized a regional policy seminar" Education Finance and Decentralization in Asia: Implications for Service Delivery"

The theme was chosen to highlight that decentralisation of education, in regard to administration and financing, is a management approach that can help deliver public education services more efficiently. Important policy questions were asked, aiming to trigger discussion on and provide participants options for making sound policy decisions pertaining to the following topics:

  • The role of non-state actors in basic education financing and delivery
  • Funding arrangements for decentralised education
  • Practical issues in designing and implementing decentralised education finance

Some 40 high level participants from East and South Asian countries and experts from international agencies including UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank attended the seminar. Issues discussed and debated at the seminar provided theoretical explorations, critical analyses and practical experience that are of direct relevance to the work of ministerial and institutional education policy makers, managers and researchers from the Asian region.

Forthcoming, the dialogue, presentations and major findings of the seminar will be included in a publication to not only highlight the outcomes of the seminar, but also to be used as a reference for future policy debate in the region.

Seminar proceedings

1.    Agenda

2.    Participant list

Overview of education decentralization and service delivery in Asia; download the paper:

  1. Key note speech
  2. Overview presentation, Le Thu Huong
  3. Implementing decentralization: the wide gap between theory and reality, Anton De Grauwe

 Presentations: 

 The role of non-state actors in basic education financing and delivery

  1. Non-public provision of basic education, Harry Patrinos
  2. Public-private partnerships for the poor and disadvantaged, Sena Lee
  3. Primary and mass education in Bangladesh: An overview, Md. Fashiullah

 Funding arrangements for decentralised education

  1. Decentralization and centralization of compulsory education finance in China, Mingxing Liu
  2. Will formula based funding and decentralized management improve school level resources in Sri Lanka, Nisha Arunatilake
  3. Overview: Education decentralisation in Lao PDR, Sisana Boupha
  4. Decentralisation of education service delivery in Japan, Keichii Ogawa
  5. Education finance and decentralization: Indonesian experiences, R.Agus Sartono
  6. Linkage of funding and decentralization: Still a challenge in Thailand, Darunee Jumpatong

Practical issues in designing and implementing decentralised education finance

  1. Education finance and decentralisation in Korea: Design characteristics, issues and policy implications, Sung Joon Paik
  2. Connecting the broken links, Nyi Nyi Thaung
  3. Education finance and decentralisation in Cambodia, Lim Sothea and Yoeun Thach
  4. Education decentralization in Nepal: Bringing back to track, Lava Deo Awasthi and Yoga Raj Pokhrel

Country case studies: the summary report

For further information about the event, please contact: Michaelle Tauson, UNESCO Bangkok at m.tauson(at)unesco.org.

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