Education Sector Strategic Plan 2004-2015 - Planipolis

1.14 Changes to the ESIP
Final ESSP
The second Plan differs from the first in some key respects. The ESIP covered a
five-year period (1998-2003), while this Plan (ESSP) covers ten years (2005-2015). 3
This second Plan is costed and linked to department Work Plans and the Mediumterm
Budget Framework (MTBF) so that it can be used as a critical basis for
medium-term and annual planning and budgeting. While the first Plan elaborated on
the “programme approach” to planning and implementation, that approach has been
more or less institutionalized, so the second Plan assumes its continuation. Finally,
as described in more detail below, the second Plan shifts the emphasis from one of
implementing Universal Primary Education, which, introduced in 1997, riveted the
attention and resources of the sector, to a more balanced concern for post-primary
and other sub-sectors as well as primary. Above all, it aims at improving the quality
of education—what participants learn and how they learn.
3 The ESSP was approved in spring 2004, so effectively it does not cover the 2004-05 fiscal year, making it a ten-year plan.
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