Equatorial Guinea Education Sector Diagnostic

The Government of Equatorial Guinea (GoEG) requested financial, analytical, and technical support from the World Bank during the country’s protracted economic recession. Given the prioritization of education in the country’s national development pl...

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Main Authors: Bassett, Lucy, Di Gropello, Emanuela, Marshall, Jeffery H., Tabares, Julio Alejandro Abril
Format: Report
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/356311499340208347/Equatorial-Guinea-education-sector-diagnostic
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spelling okr-10986-283272021-05-25T09:52:23Z Equatorial Guinea Education Sector Diagnostic Bassett, Lucy Di Gropello, Emanuela Marshall, Jeffery H. Tabares, Julio Alejandro Abril EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION FINANCE SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS STUDENT PERFORMANCE TECHNICAL EDUCATION VOCATIONAL TRAINING TVET TERTIARY EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION The Government of Equatorial Guinea (GoEG) requested financial, analytical, and technical support from the World Bank during the country’s protracted economic recession. Given the prioritization of education in the country’s national development plan, the World Bank agreed to undertake an education sector diagnostic study to: (a) help the World Bank better understand the education sector, including the main challenges and policy priorities of the government; (b) facilitate dialogue between the World Bank and GoEG in the education sector and suggest options to move forward in the current economic downturn; (c) provide supporting background for a parallel activity that is focusing on public expenditures in the social sector (public expenditure review (PER)); (d) support the activities that are planned as part of the national development plan’s programa mayor educación para todos; and (e) provide education sector stakeholders with an updated summary of the sector including a review of recent indicator trends and program activities. This diagnostic focuses primarily on primary and secondary education, while also providing some information on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education, especially where relevant to the other subsectors. It is also intended to update an earlier World Bank-supported education sector diagnostic. The diagnostic is divided into three main parts. Part A focuses on country context, background on the education sector, and recent trends in education (for example, enrollment, and repetition). Part B moves into the education sector diagnostic by topic, focusing on the main challenges in areas such as education finance, quality, and learning outcomes. Part C introduces possible policy actions, framed with the current crisis context, that address some of the main issues identified in Part B. 2017-09-13T16:02:48Z 2017-09-13T16:02:48Z 2017-06-22 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/356311499340208347/Equatorial-Guinea-education-sector-diagnostic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28327 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Education Sector Review Economic & Sector Work Africa Equatorial Guinea
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topic EDUCATION POLICY
EDUCATION FINANCE
SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
TECHNICAL EDUCATION
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
TVET
TERTIARY EDUCATION
HIGHER EDUCATION
spellingShingle EDUCATION POLICY
EDUCATION FINANCE
SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
TECHNICAL EDUCATION
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
TVET
TERTIARY EDUCATION
HIGHER EDUCATION
Bassett, Lucy
Di Gropello, Emanuela
Marshall, Jeffery H.
Tabares, Julio Alejandro Abril
Equatorial Guinea Education Sector Diagnostic
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Equatorial Guinea
description The Government of Equatorial Guinea (GoEG) requested financial, analytical, and technical support from the World Bank during the country’s protracted economic recession. Given the prioritization of education in the country’s national development plan, the World Bank agreed to undertake an education sector diagnostic study to: (a) help the World Bank better understand the education sector, including the main challenges and policy priorities of the government; (b) facilitate dialogue between the World Bank and GoEG in the education sector and suggest options to move forward in the current economic downturn; (c) provide supporting background for a parallel activity that is focusing on public expenditures in the social sector (public expenditure review (PER)); (d) support the activities that are planned as part of the national development plan’s programa mayor educación para todos; and (e) provide education sector stakeholders with an updated summary of the sector including a review of recent indicator trends and program activities. This diagnostic focuses primarily on primary and secondary education, while also providing some information on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education, especially where relevant to the other subsectors. It is also intended to update an earlier World Bank-supported education sector diagnostic. The diagnostic is divided into three main parts. Part A focuses on country context, background on the education sector, and recent trends in education (for example, enrollment, and repetition). Part B moves into the education sector diagnostic by topic, focusing on the main challenges in areas such as education finance, quality, and learning outcomes. Part C introduces possible policy actions, framed with the current crisis context, that address some of the main issues identified in Part B.
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author Bassett, Lucy
Di Gropello, Emanuela
Marshall, Jeffery H.
Tabares, Julio Alejandro Abril
author_facet Bassett, Lucy
Di Gropello, Emanuela
Marshall, Jeffery H.
Tabares, Julio Alejandro Abril
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title Equatorial Guinea Education Sector Diagnostic
title_short Equatorial Guinea Education Sector Diagnostic
title_full Equatorial Guinea Education Sector Diagnostic
title_fullStr Equatorial Guinea Education Sector Diagnostic
title_full_unstemmed Equatorial Guinea Education Sector Diagnostic
title_sort equatorial guinea education sector diagnostic
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/356311499340208347/Equatorial-Guinea-education-sector-diagnostic
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