Education Reform Support Volume One: Overview and Bibliography

Education Reform Support (ERS) has been identified as a systematic strategy that can aid policy makers in successfully implementing educational reforms and therefore this paper aims to present the various tools and tactics that can be used in policy implementation process through ERS to achieve the desired objectives. Background analysis reveals that localized innovations and projects initiated by donor agencies fail due to limitations within the traditional mechanism, uncertainty faced by donor agencies and failure to implement proper administration system. Thus, stakeholders must design reforms based on extensive research and analysis whereby the policy making process must ensure transparency, competitiveness and accountability while also providing stakeholders a say in the decision making process. In order to ensure that reforms are successfully implemented, donor agencies must set an operational framework that supports infrastructure and develops core capabilities while also creates awareness for the policy to be implemented at a larger scale.

The study highlights the basic tools and techniques in ERS including EMIS, survey results, internal and external efficiency analysis, budgeting and financial analysis, communications, networking and coalition building and technology transfer. ERS based projects must be strategized and redesigned based on external, internal and stakeholder analysis whereby the analysis will help identify the tools and techniques that must be used within the policy designing, implementing and monitoring process.