EQUIP End of Project Review

EQUIP2 Policy and

Systems

John GilliesNovember 8,

2011

Washington consensus and international dialogue: Country-led rhetoric and new modalitiesAccountability, transparency, assessmentTrends: decentralization, community schools, SBM

Evolving questions:1. What works? 2. What is the recipe for scaling up and

sustaining innovations3. What modalities are most effective? Why were these questions so hard to

answer? Why is the answer so unsatisfying?

Evolving Context and Questions

The Questions What is the problem?

Simple: What is the recipe?

Complicated: What is the plan?

OMG

Sustainability and scaling up requires sound interventions, but does not have a technical solution

Development is about people, relationships, trust, credibility These are earned – and not transferable.

USAID’s comparative advantage to accompany national leaders in solving hard problems. Respect!

Constructed Serendipity –create opportunities by investing in structures, processes, and leadership

Evaluate and measure the right things – not just the easy things.

Managing change – not change management

  

Informing the future

EQUIP2 2003 – 2012

Research in education policy, systems, and management