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1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Information The Community Based Monitoring Project is an initiative being led by the Council for Non Governmental Organizations in Malawi (CONGOMA) in conjunction with Plan Malawi, Actionaid and DFID. The project aims at building the capacity of the civil society to hold service providers accountable through promotion of citizen participation in national budget cycle, assess delivery of public service leading to a more informed and engaged civil society and more accountable service providers. The project will firstly be implemented in a few selected pilot districts before being rolled out to cover all the twenty-eight districts of Malawi. It will initially focus on the four sectors namely, Health, Education, Agriculture, Water and Sanitation. Implementation will be through NGOs, CSOs with involvement of existing community decentralized structures such as Village Development Committees, Area Development Committees and District Assemblies to ensure citizens optimum participation. This project is part of the democratization process and ensures the enforcement of the bottom-up planning approach and helps decision makers to be able to get input from stakeholders at grassroots level that are otherwise skipped in the budget processes. It also provides opportunities to policy makers to fine tune the programmes aimed at achieving the targets in the Malawi Economic Growth and Development Strategy (MEGDS), Millennium Development Goals targets and poverty reduction in general. It allows citizens at the grassroots who are affected by poverty to have a say in activities that empower them for a better life. The Community Based Monitoring project acquired funding from the Results for Development Institute (R4D) under its Transparency and Accountability Project 1
(TAP) in order to conduct a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey for the Education Sector. The study complements information that the Community Based Monitoring Project collects from service users (the demand side) using community scorecards with detailed information from service providers (the supply side). The major focus of the study was on the processes involved in administration of primary school teacher’s salaries and how that impacts on overall service delivery in primary schools. As a starting point to the study, it was conceived that one major variable regarding teachers’ salaries be taken up as a case and indicator pointing at the efficiencies and inefficiencies in the system [way before actual budget trucking] in order to have facts necessary for probing at higher administrative levels of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Such indicator was the ‘Timeliness of Salaries to Teachers’. This was conceived to track whether timeliness has impact on the delivery of teaching services (whether timeliness of salary payment could have significant impacts on teachers’ livelihoods and delivery of teaching services). Thus, as more and more efficiencies and inefficiencies are unveiled in this indicator, it could be a pointer to whether the MOEST system is working well or not. And, in turn this provides a perspective and hypothesis for which researchers could stand by as they approach the actual tracking exercise. The outcomes would give the researchers points for probing in the tracking study. 1.2 Basic Understanding The exercise/study is well positioned to contribute towards the Government of Malawi (GoM) National Development Policy objectives by providing feedback to policy makers and administrators on how the efficiency or lack of it in the administration of teachers salaries actually affects delivery of primary school services. This directly fits in the transparent governance framework through strengthening the capacity of national, district and local actors, particularly the education sector 2
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