Education and Health Services in Kenya : Data for Results and Accountability
Although Kenya's vision 2030 highlights investment in human development, public spending on health and education in Africa has not guaranteed results. Closing the gap between promises, spending, and results depend on what service providers kno...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/07/18031388/education-health-services-kenya-data-results-accountability http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16288 |
| Summary: | Although Kenya's vision 2030
highlights investment in human development, public spending
on health and education in Africa has not guaranteed
results. Closing the gap between promises, spending, and
results depend on what service providers know and what they
do: provider behavior is key. The Service Delivery
Indicators (SDI) aim to provide critical information to
improve accountability for health and education results. The
survey was implemented by the Kenya Institute of Public
Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) and Kimetrica with
quality assurance and oversight from the World Bank. The
surveys provide a representative snapshot of the learning
environment and key resources in both public and private
schools, and the quality of health service delivery and the
physical environment within which services are delivered in
public and private (nonprofit) health facilities.
Improvements in service quality in Kenya can be accelerated
through focused investments on reforms to the incentive
environments facing providers, and in the skills of
providers to ensure that inputs and skills come together at
the same time and at the same place. This will be critical
to ensure that Kenya's gains in human development
outcomes continue beyond 2015, bringing the country closer
to achieving the promises set out in the vision 2030. |
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