Education strategy 2010
8. Making investments, measuring results
8.1 Our planned investment
What will we invest to deliver on our priorities? The UK has four significant political commitments on education: to spend £8.5 billion on education in the ten year period to 2015 to raise expenditure to at least £1 billion per year by 2010 on education to provide additional UK bilateral and multilateral support for education [...]
8.2 Deciding where to invest
How do we decide where to invest? Choices which shape the bilateral education portfolio: Bilateral Resource Allocation Process: based on need and likely effectiveness Country Planning Process: country analysis inform strategic decisions about priority areas Project identification: presenting a business case for an intervention Choices that shape aid across multilateral institutions: Past investments and [...]
8.3 How are we measuring our investments?
What results are we measuring to demonstrate the impact of our investment? The White Paper process has challenged us to provide more information on DFID attributable results and we have several examples collated from country offices. We also have corporate requirements to collect data for the indicators below. Public Service agreements and departmental objectives: - [...]
8.4 Questions: measuring what we value
Are we measuring what we value? What indicators should we be using to measure outputs, outcomes and impact?
8.5 Questions: using international partners
Should DFID do more with international partners to determine what is measured and how it is used?
8.6 Questions: the input from DFID
How important is direct DFID attribution as opposed to generic data to stakeholders?
8.7 Questions: engaging across sectors
How can we better encourage partner governments, civil society groups and to use and engage with data to improve their education systems?
