2011 Monitoring Exercise on Aid Effectiveness

The monitoring exercise was carried out in 2011 to review performance against the Paris indicators in 2010 at the sector level. There were three main reasons why the Global Partnership for Education undertook such an exercise:

1. The Global Partnership for Education is founded on the principles of aid effectiveness. The monitoring exercise provides an opportunity (i) to collect quantitative data (on the indicators) and qualitative data (country context, strengths and challenges) on development cooperation in the education sector. This data basis will inform the Global Partnership and the Secretariat how and in which areas to improve its support and performance to make aid and cooperation more effective. The Global Partnership for Education model aims to leverage ownership, alignment, harmonization, results management and mutual accountability at the country level. Based on the data provided by the participating Ministries of Education and donors the exercise will help understand better how sector partnerships work.
2. Effective education aid is monitored in the results framework. Monitoring the effectiveness of education aid is part of the Global Partnership's regular monitoring through its results framework. This is in line with the Global Partnership's efforts to generate a common understanding for mutual accountability to achieve education results. (Overview Presentation: Results Framework, PDF)
3. Contribute to the OECD monitoring process on aid effectiveness. The findings of the monitoring exercise are shared with OECD to inform discussions around progress on making aid and development cooperation more effective from a sector perspective. The Global Partnership's Monitoring Exercise is aligned to the OECD Survey with adaptations to the education sector.

The goal of the exercise is to help strengthen country-driven processes so that external education aid and domestic spending leverage each other to achieve sustainable results. Specific objectives are:

• Generate discussion among partners of the Local Education Group around specific aid effectiveness questions and specific data reported by individual donor partners.
• Facilitate and strengthen dialogue in the education sector at the country level around ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results, and mutual accountability.
• Improve understanding of sector cooperation and identify areas of strengths, scope for improvement and urgent action.

Four phases of the monitoring exercise:

• Data collection at the country level through the Ministry of Education and its in-country donor partners using the EFA FTI Questionnaire for Ministry of Education, the EFA FTI Donor Questionnaire, and the EFA FTI Country Spreadsheet.
• Preparation of an explanatory note (EFA FTI Guiding Questions for the Country Explanatory Note) supporting the quantitative data with further details and explanation by Local Education Group;
• Preparation of a profile on aid effectiveness for each participating country based on quantitative and qualitative data by GPE Secretariat;
• Review and revision of profile by Local Education Group.

Data collection was managed through the Local Education Group.

• EFA FTI Guidance Note how to coordinate and carry out the exercise.
• Practical Advice
• Exercice Illustration (Graph) (fr) / (eng)
• Briefing Note 2011 Monitoring Exercise (eng) / (fr)

• Glossary
  
• Aid Effectiveness Glossary
  
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda of Action (2008)
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• 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration
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• 2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration.
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• 2006 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration.
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• Preliminary findings based on the data that was available in July 2011 were shared with the OECD for the Paris since Progress report. Findings are based on the quantitative and qualitative data provided by the ministries of education and in-country donor partners.
• Based on the Ministry of Education and donor data the GPE Secretariat has prepared a profile on aid effectiveness in the education sector for each participating countries. Those profiles are validated by the Local Education Groups and help strengthen their discussion on aid effectiveness aspects.
• Based on these profiles the GPE Secretariat is preparing an overall monitoring exercise report. (forthcoming early 2012)
• Summary Presentation (November 2011): Managing Education Aid more Effectively through Partnerships. Preliminary Findings from the 2011 Monitoring Exercise on Aid Effectiveness. (PDF)
• OECD (2011), Aid Effectiveness 2005-10: Progress in Implementing the Paris Declaration. English / Français The Global Partnership for Education has contributed to the OECD report with the preliminary findings of the 2011 Monitoring Exercise on aid effectiveness in the education sector.

• The monitoring exercise was closely aligned to the 2011 OECD Survey and OECD methodology to monitor the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. The aid effectiveness indicators were adapted to the education sector. Data was collected through three questionnaires – ministry of education questionnaire, donor questionnaire and qualitative questionnaire (explanatory note) - in the participating partner countries, because aid effectiveness can only be monitored and assessed at the country-level.
• Data collection was based on self-reporting and self-assessment by the participating partners. Based on the submitted data the Secretariat produced ‘profiles on aid effectiveness in the education sector’ for each participating country. The profiles were discussed among the Ministry of Education and the reporting development partners.
• Country profiles are published as working papers indicating that they are a contribution to the global and local learning process on aid effectiveness rather than a summative, exhaustive and rigid reflection of the aid effectiveness situation in a country. This is also given that such a monitoring exercise takes place in a very dynamic environment of development cooperation which allows only a snapshot of the state of play in 2010.

Please refer to the 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration - Country Chapters for additional information on each country regarding aid effectiveness.

• Ghana. May 2012.
• Togo. May 2012.
• Burundi. April 2012.
• Cambodia. April 2012.
• Cameroon. April 2012.
• Liberia. April 2012. (Note: Database for indicators is limited.)
• Mali. April 2012.
• Malawi. April 2012.
• Republic of Kyrgyzstan. April 2012.
• Sierra Leone. April 2012. (Note: See page 3 for info on data limitations.)
• Vietnam. April 2012.
• Lesotho. March 2012.
• Nepal. March 2012.
• Zambia. March 2012.
• Madagascar. February 2012.
• Zimbabwe. December 2011.

Caroline Schmidt
Operations Analyst
Email | 202-458-0825
(English speaking partners)

Laurent Cortese
Sr. Education Specialist
Email | 202-458-0825
(French speaking partners)