Decentralized Finance and Provision of Basic Education
Asia-Pacific Education System Review Series No. 4
This booklet was prepared as part of UNESCO Bangkok's programme on education policy reviews and analyses on sector planning, management and financing.
The booklet provides a conceptual framework for understanding the issues involved in decentralizing the financing and provision of education. Through exploration of various country experiences in implementing education, the paper describes the challenges that Asian countries have encountered in this process and provides a basis for well-informed decision-making regarding future education decentralization efforts, with a view to improving education equity and efficiency in the Asian region.
The Asia-Pacific Education System Review Series has been developed aiming to summarize what is known, based on research, about selected contemporary policy issues relating to the national education systems of countries in the Asia and Pacific region.
The prior 3 booklets in this Series are:
- No. 1 Examination Systems
- No. 2 Access to Secondary Education
- No. 3 Education MTEF: Approaches, Experience and Lessons from Nine Countries in Asia
The first two booklets were focus on the issues in secondary education while the third booklet covers sector-wide. Limited numbers of printed copies are still available for distribution, please contact epr.bgk(at)unesco.org.
More publications in this series are being developed.