[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1134, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "Furthermore, the WB has supported school construction across the country through its Quality Basic Education Programme."}, {"bbox": [85, 220, 878, 251], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.3 Additional Areas of Assessment [For Budget Support Actions only]"}, {"bbox": [85, 265, 1006, 294], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.1 Pre-condition on Fundamental Values [For a Sustainable Development Goals Contract only]"}, {"bbox": [97, 308, 140, 331], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [85, 383, 285, 411], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.2 Public Policy"}, {"bbox": [97, 426, 281, 453], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Policy Framework"}, {"bbox": [97, 480, 1163, 853], "category": "Text", "text": "Rwanda's National Strategy for Transformation (NST), which supports the implementation of Rwanda's Vision 2050, aims to raise access to early childhood education services from the current estimated 13% to 45% by 2024 and also acknowledges the role of early childhood development in helping to eradicate malnutrition. The national education goals and objectives are highlighted in the Rwandan Education Sector Policy (Ministry of Education - MINEDUC, 2003). This policy is currently under review. Building on the Education Sector Policy, several sub-sector and thematic policies and plans have been developed over recent years. Rwanda has a strong Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) (2018/2019 – 2023/2024), developed in consultation with key stakeholders. The national education goals and objectives are set in this document, which defines the roadmap for achieving education targets in the country. In particular, the ESSP sets out clear targets to increase access and quality of the pre-primary sector. These are complemented by an Early Childhood Development Policy (2016) and accompanying Strategic Plan and a National Early Childhood Development Program (NECDP) Strategic Plan 2018-2024. The existing school feeding policy (2019), accompanied by operational guidelines, has recently been given which has been implemented, scaling up school feeding to all school levels has started since October 2021. A new School Feeding Strategy is being developed, hand-in-hand with development partners, including a financing strategy."}, {"bbox": [97, 881, 1163, 1042], "category": "Text", "text": "Monitoring of education policies achievements is done under the Education Sector Working Group (local coordination groups), and its various thematic sub-groups (school feeding, inclusive education, etc.). Development Partners are an integral part of those groups. More specifically, the national ECD policy is coordinated through a National ECD Coordination Steering Committee and a National ECD Technical Working Group. Each line Ministry is including, namely the Ministry of Gender and Family (MIGEPROF), policy owner, the Ministry for Education, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Local Governance (MINALOC) and the Ministry of Health."}, {"bbox": [97, 1069, 1163, 1230], "category": "Text", "text": "The delivery of education in Rwanda has been decentralised, with districts responsible for much of the actual decision-making and implementation in alignment with MINALOC. However, MINALOC does not appear to be part of the ESWG, which may explain, to some extent, why challenges of coordination between the central government and district implementing authorities have frequently been observed, aside from limited alignment between central and district planning and monitoring. This has also sometimes led to a misalignment of priorities, with available resources used for items such as infrastructure or procurement, rather than for teaching or quality improvement."}, {"bbox": [97, 1258, 315, 1286], "category": "Section-header", "text": "#### Costing and financing"}, {"bbox": [97, 1314, 1163, 1472], "category": "Text", "text": "After a decline in the education budget both as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and as a percentage of public spending over the period 2012 to 2018, the government has made some progress towards increasing the share of domestic resources to education progressively to 20% of the total budget, or annually allocate at least 4% GDP to education. While the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has undertaken to at least maintain pre-Covid-19 levels of spending on education, the Ministry of Finance (MINECOFIN) has only 'endorsed' this commitment as 'relevant'."}, {"bbox": [97, 1501, 1163, 1609], "category": "Text", "text": "The Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) 2018-2024 is recognised as appropriately costed by the development partners of the sector, and relatively well financed. The ESSP presents three costed scenarios for developments in the education sector between 2018-2024. These are: (i) a 'Business as usual' situation in which the education sector maintains the current pace of innovations; (ii) a \"pragmatic scenario\" envisioning that \"most of new initiatives shall"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1678, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 30"}]