Implementation period: December 2013 – December 2018
Funded by: World Bank

Project goal: The strategic goal of this initiative is to empower Moldovan citizens to engage local, regional and national authorities in evidence-based policy and budget dialogue regarding educational reform, quality of services, and development priorities of primary, secondary general and upper secondary schools and to enable an environment in which social accountability initiatives thrive and develop.

Specific objectives:

• facilitate engagement of the education stakeholders of 100 schools in applying SAcc tools and in entering dialogue regarding the budget of the school;
• ensure flow of information from users of the education services to local and national authorities, so that reforms take into account the needs of parties involved;
• promote adoption of the 3 types of social accountability tools which are new for Moldova as inputs into the formal budgetary processes;
• analyze and inform the public about the impact of wider economic and financial conditions on the educational sector and reforms (current situation, budgetary resources available, forecast);
• support Ministry of Education and other policy stakeholders in improving the quality of data to support the evidence-based policymaking process;
  
  

Potential project impact

In result of the project, citizens will be empowered to apply and use social accountability tools – public hearings, community cards, independent budget analyses – in the educational sector. The project will put in place data quality assurance processes to support policy dialogue at national level. The project is designed to be implemented over a 5-year period so that to encompass 100 of the 1397 education units at the level of primary secondary general and upper secondary education. We estimate this would be a critical mass triggering changes in the entire system. The results of social accountability tools applied will serve to map out the situation of individual schools and will feed into the reform promoted by the Ministry of Education.