Cameroon - Can School Grants and Teacher Incentives be Used to Increase School Access and Improve Quality?
The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded a feasibility study and a pre-pilot of performance-based school grants and teacher incentives among 20 rural primary schools in Cameroon. The purpose was to asses...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/304191556557313186/Cameroon-Can-School-Grants-and-Teacher-Incentives-be-Used-to-Increase-School-Access-and-Improve-Quality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33618 |
| Summary: | The Results in Education for All
Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded a
feasibility study and a pre-pilot of performance-based
school grants and teacher incentives among 20 rural primary
schools in Cameroon. The purpose was to assess whether these
RBF mechanisms could feasibly be used to improve
transparency, financial management, and monitoring at the
school level, increase community satisfaction, and draw
lessons from the implementation of these RBF mechanisms to
enable the initiative to be scaled up throughout Cameroon.
While it is not possible to draw conclusions about the
effect of this RBF program on education access or quality
given the short time period and small sample size, this
pre-pilot demonstrated that RBF is feasible in rural primary
schools in Cameroon and highlighted the importance of
several critical preconditions that must be in place for RBF
to be effective. These preconditions include a simple and
context-appropriate design, clear communication with key
stakeholders, effective monitoring tools to assess school
and teacher performance, and community involvement. |
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