FTI - Global Partnership for Education

The Education For All
Fast-Track Initiative
(EFA-FTI
FTI)

Outline
• What is the Education for All (EFA)
Fast Track Initiative (FTI)?
• Why was FTI created? The Context
• The FTI Compact
• The Appraisal Process
• FTI Support Mechanisms:
• Financing through regular channels
• Catalytic Fund
• EPDF
• Next Steps for Partner
Countries
• Role of country level donors
• FTI Governance Structure
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What is the EFA-Fast
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 Context
The Problem
• Around the world, over 103 million children
are out of school, , of which 58 million girls.
• Evidence is overwhelming that education –
particularly for girls– can break the cycle of
poverty, , halt the spread of AIDS, and create
more stable and prosperous nations.
• Many countries will not reach universal primary
education by 2015 if past trends continue.
• Resource needs for all countries to reach UPC
(between US$5.6 and 10 billion per year for all developing
countries)
countries) are significantly higher than current
efforts
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Primary Completion Rate by Region
UPE Goal
100
99
East Asia & Pacific
Europe & Central
Asia
97
94
90
Latin America &
Caribbean
88
80
Middle East & North
Africa
82
Required trends to
reach UPE
70
South Asia
60
62
Sub-Saharan Africa
2003-04
50
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1990-91 1995-96 2000-01 2005-06 2010-11 2015-16

The Context
International Agreements
• EFA goals adopted at World Education Forum,
April 2000, Dakar
• Millennium Development Declaration
adopted, September 2000
• Monterrey Consensus, , March 2002
International Finance and Development
Conference
• Rome and Paris Declarations on Aid
Effectiveness (2003 & 2005)
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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
Mutual
Accountability
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
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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
1) Government spending on education – about 20% of
budget
2) Spending on primary education – about 50% of
education budget
3) Teacher salary – about 3.5 times GDP per capita
4) Pupil-teacher ratio – about 40:1
5) Non-teacher salary spending – 33% of recurrent
spending
6) Average repetition rate – 10% or lower
7) Annual hours of instruction – 850 or more
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What support does the FTI offer?
To low-income
countries with PRS
and sector program,
appraised and
endorsed by
supporting donors
• 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)
To all lowincome
countries
• Capacity development
support - Upstream and
downstream - Education
Program Development Fund
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ENDORSEMENT PROCESS
Country has prepared a poverty reduction strategy or
equivalent, and an education sector plan
Local agencies involved in supporting the education sector nominate a Coordinating
Agency to lead the FTI assessment and endorsement process and serve as the liaison with
the Ministry of Education, other concerned Government agencies, and the FTI Secretariat
Coordinating Agency:
• Liaises with Ministry of Education and local agencies to organize assessment and
endorsement process
• Invites all relevant agencies to participate in the assessment and endorsement process
(each agency is responsible for ensuring that its representative consults with its HQ as
needed throughout the process and has the appropriate technical expertise to contribute
substantively)
• Makes available the FTI appraisal guidelines and Indicative Framework to the group to
conduct the assessment
Coordinating agency sends sector plan, assessment with conclusion of
endorsement or not, signed by all who participated, to the FTI Secretariat
FTI Secretariat informs the full Partnership of the
endorsement
Donors mobilize resources
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Purpose:
FTI Appraisal Guidelines
Encourage dialogue on key policy issues
including:
• Adequacy of the knowledge base
• Strategy toward achievement of the MDG/EFA
Goal, including HIV/AIDS and gender
responsiveness
• Ownership by all stakeholders
• Absorptive capacity and financial sustainability
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Expected Outcomes of the Appraisal
A set of well-justified
recommendations on:
• Volume & composition of
financial and other resources
available to support the program
• Key areas for capacity building
• Support to close prioritized
knowledge/data gaps
• Arrangements for monitoring
and evaluation
• All donors align their support to
this one program
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What the Appraisal Process is not
• It is not an appraisal of a separate
EFA or FTI project or program, but of
the education sector program of the
country
• It is not an appraisal of only a piece
of the strategy for primary education
or a piece of a sector program, the
piece for which additional financing is
being sought
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Financing from Regular Channels
Once the financing gap is known, the FTI
Secretariat raises awareness at the global
level so that the gap can be filled by:
• Donors present in the country who
increase their support, or
• Donors not yet present in the country
providing new funding, either directly or
through silent partnerships
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FTI Catalytic Fund
• Multi Donor Trust Fund
managed by the World
Bank
• Provides funding in the
form of grants to help close
the financing gap for
countries with limited donor
presence*, while mobilizing
more sustainable support
through regular bilateral
and multilateral channels.
*Countries with 4 or fewer bilateral partners each giving US$ 1
million or more per year to education
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CF Contributions and Pledges
CF
2003- Total
In US$ million
2004 2003-
Total Balance to
Country
2005 2006 2007 2008 2008 Payments be paid
Belgium 1.2 2.5 1.2 1.2 6.1 3.7 2.4
Canada 20 20 0 20
EC - - 40.3 40.3 80.6 0 80.6
Ireland - - 1.5 - 1.5 1.5 0
Italy 2.4 2.4 1.2 - 6 4.8 1.2
Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Netherlands 39.5 54.3 64.8 76.2 234.8 158.6 76.2
Norway 6 8.1 25.6 - 39.7 39.7 0
Russia 1 2 1 4 0 4
Spain - 6 - - 6 6 0
Sweden - 5.3 10.4 0 15.7 15.7 0
UK - - 125.29 124.36 16.83 266.48 0 266.48
49.1 78.6 291.29 244.06 17.83 680.88 230 450.88
In addition, Norway has announced a further US$ 32 million available for the FTI in 2006. However, the split between
the EPDF and the Catalytic Fund is not yet defined.
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Catalytic Fund Allocations (as of Nov. 2005)
In US$ million
Country 2003 & 2004 2005 2006 2007 Total
2003-07
1 Djibouti - - 6.0 2.0 8.0
2 Ghana - 8.0 11.0 11.0 30.0
3 Guyana 4.0 4.0 4.0 - 12.0
4 Kenya - 24.2 24.2 24.2 72.6
5 Lesotho - - 7.2 4.7 11.9
6 Madagascar - 10.0 25.0 25.0 60.0
7 Mauritania 7.0 2.0 - - 9.0
8 Moldova - - 4.4 4.4 8.8
9 Nicaragua 7.0 7.0 7.0 - 21.0
10 Niger 13.0 8.0 - - 21.0
11 Tajikistan - - 9.2 9.2 18.4
12 The Gambia 4.0 4.0 4.0 12.0
13 Timor Leste - - 3.0 3.0 6.0
14 Yemen 10.0 10.0 10.0 - 30.0
Total 45.0 77.2 115.0 83.5 320.7
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Education Program Development
Fund (EPDF)
• Multi-donor trust fund administered by
the World Bank
EPDF Contributions and Pledges in US$ millions
Country 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total
Total
2003- Payments
Canada 0 4 0 4 0 4
Ireland -- 0.31 -- 0.31 0.31 0
2008
Luxembourg -- 1.3 -- 1.3 1.3
Balance to be
paid
Netherlands - 7.2 - 7.2 0 7.2
Norway 4.87 15 -- 19.87 19.87 0
Russia 1.2 2 3.2 0 3.2
Sweden -- 2.6 -- 2.6 2.6 0
UK 0.94 3.2 4 8.14 2 6.14
Total 5.81 33.61 5.2 2 46.62 26.08 20.54
0
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Education Program Development Fund (EPDF)
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 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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FTI Helps Both Sides of the Compact
Mechanism to accelerate progress towards
universal primary education
Developing Countries:
• More efficient aid for
primary education
• Sustained increases in
aid for primary
education
Donors:
• Platform for aid
effectiveness
• Better coordination
and harmonization of
aid at national and
global level
• Sharing of knowledge
and experience
• More countries on
track to achieving UPC
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Next Steps for Partner Countries
• Pursue FTI discussions with your local donor
group
• Take leadership in developing an education
sector plan (only one plan)
• Mobilize country level donors and other
resources to provide support as needed
• Discuss and agree with donors on the appraisal
process
• Ensure the provision of annual information on
key progress indicators and financial status to
the local donors
• Recommend that the EFA/MDG goal for basic
education is a national priority, adequately
reflected in the Poverty Reduction Strategy or
other national development strategy
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What is the Role of Donors at the
Country Level?
You are an FTI donor partner and key to making FTI work.
Here are the basic steps you can take to help get countries on-
track:
• Support the country to develop a sound sector strategy and program
• If the country needs support to develop its sector plan, donors may be
able to access funding through the EPDF. To access the EPDF, contact the
lead coordinating agency or the World Bank task team leader at the t
country level.
• If greater donor involvement is needed in the policy dialogue and d to
support program preparation, let the FTI Secretariat know. It will try to
find another partner through the global partnership.
• Exhaust your own possibilities to increase financing for the country
ntry’s
sector program.
• To pursue additional financing of the country’s s endorsed sector program,
inform the FTI Secretariat which will help to mobilize the resources at
the global level and through the Catalytic Fund for qualifying countries. c
• If you are the lead coordinating agency, liaise with the Secretariat riat and
provide up-to
to-date information on financial status and performance
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FTI Governance Structure
FTI PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS
(Annual - attended by donor
and country partners, NGOs)
Sets strategic policy direction of FTI
Advocates on behalf of FTI
FTI SECRETARIAT
FTI STEERING COMMITTEE
2 FTI CO-CHAIRS
WORLD BANK
UNESCO
LAST OUTGOING FTI CO-CHAIR
give direction
support
FTI WORKING GROUP
HARMONIZATION
FTI WORKING GROUP
COMMUNICATIONS
FTI WORKING GROUP
FINANCE
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FTI Secretariat Contacts
Secretariat Staff Liaison for Contact information
Desmond Bermingham
Head
dbermingham@worldbank.org
202-458
458-7169
Robert Prouty
Deputy Head
rprouty@worldbank.org
202-473
473-75327532
Kouassi Soman
Anglophone Africa, Latin
America & the Caribbean,
Europe & Central Asia, Middle
East & North Africa
ksoman@worldbank.org
202-473
473-47134713
Luc-Charles Gacougnolle
Francophone & Lusophone
Africa, South & East Asia
lgacougnolle@worldbank.org
202-458
458-2050
Abby Spring
Communications
aspring@worldbank.org
202-458
458-9491
Palak Mehra
Trust Fund administration
pmehra@worldbank.org
202-458
458-9826
Anna Triponel
Special Projects
atriponel@worldbank.org
202-473
473-2400
Chantal Rigaud
Program Assistant
crigaud@worldbank.org
202-458
458-9746
Michelle Mesen
Program Assistant
mmesen@worldbank.org
202-458
458-55895589
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FTI Donor Contacts
Donor Contact Name Contact information
AfDB
ADB
AUSAID
BELGIUM
CANADA
DENMARK
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
FINLAND
FRANCE
GERMANY
IADB
IRELAND
ITALY
Alice Hamer
Jouko Sarvi
Sue Connell
Kris Panneels
Nadine Dusepulchre
Kara Mitchell
Torben Lindqvist
Anton Jensen
Marja Karjalainen
Juhani Toivonen
Anne Paugam
Sandrine Boucher
Temby Caprio
Juan Carlos Navarro
Maíre Matthews
Antonio Bernardini
Teresa Savenella
a.hamer@afdb.org
jsarvi@adb.org
sue.connell@ausaid.gov.au
Christian.panneels@diplobel.fed.be
nadine.dusepulchre@diplobel.fed.be
Kara_mitchell@acdi-cida.gc.ca
cida.gc.ca
torlin@um.dk
anton.jensen@cec.eu.int
marja.karjalainen@cec.eu.int
juhani.toivonen@formin.fi
paugama@afd.fr
sandrine.boucher@diplomatie.gouv.fr
Temby.Caprio@bmz.bund.de
juancn@iadb.org
maire.matthews@iveagh.gov.ie
antonio.bernardini@esteri.it
teresa.savanella@esteri.it
JAPAN Megumi Kito Megumi.kito@mofa.go.jp
NETHERLANDS
Ronald Siebes
Rebekka van Roemburg
ronald.siebes@minbuza.nl
Rebekka-van.roemburg@minbuza.nl
NORWAY Olav Seim olav.seim@mfa.no
RUSSIA Andrei Volkov volkov@anx.ru
SPAIN
Maria Dolores Martín Villalba
Mari Cruz del Saso
lola.martin@aeci.es
Maricruz.delsaso@aeci.es
SWEDEN Kaviraj Appadu Kaviraj.appadu@sida.se
UNITED KINGDOM
Richard Arden
Halima Begum
R-arden@dfid.gov.uk
H-Begum@dfid.gov.uk
UNAIDS Gillian Holmes holmesg@unaids.org
UNESCO
Mark Richmond
Khawla Shaheen
m.richmond@unesco.org
k.shaheen@unesco.org
UNICEF Cream Wright cwright@unicef.org
USA Joseph Carney carneyjp2@state.gov
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WORLD BANK
Ruth Kagia
Robin Horn
rkagia@worldbank.org
rhorn@worldbank.org

Thank You for your attention
For more information, visit our website:
www.fasttrackinitiative.org
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