[{"bbox": [67, 99, 1157, 1568], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>accompanying measures, their experience and skills will be solicited through a call for proposals that will be launched in 2023 under the 3rd focal sector of the MIP (Gender Equality, Governance). In addition, the TA to the ministries (direct management) will have a key role in coordinating the CSOs and in mobilizing the private sector and the foundations and in encouraging synergies.</td></tr><tr><td>Policy commitments to ECD by GRN are not matched by financial commitments</td><td>Risk 2</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Policy dialogue linked to the budget process, to try to ensure that GRN matches its policy commitments with financial resources. At present salaries take a disproportionate share of the resource envelope.</td></tr><tr><td>GRN is not willing to direct resources towards the most needy populations</td><td>Risk 3</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>The capacity of CSOs to reach out to the most vulnerable groups of the population is recognised. They will be supported outside the current Budget Support. The MIP under its support measures for civil society can be utilised to launch a Call for Proposals to support Namibia's NGOs who have a track record of successfully supporting ECD in Namibia including to the growing informal settlements.</td></tr><tr><td>GRN does not fund a census or household surveys, making education sector (especially ECD) planning difficult and undermining equitable and inclusive access. ECD-MIS and EMIS systems are not currently integrated, undermining a holistic approach to IECD</td><td>Risk 4</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Supporting expansion of the successful although lagging Education sector EMIS to capture data related to younger children/ ECD enrolled children, who will be continuing to pre-primary and primary age groups, thereby making the education system more demand responsive, and evidence based. Support will be provided to extend the stronger MoEAC EMIS to extend its reach to ECD aged children (to be implemented with the support of MGEPESW).<br/>It is preferable to work with actual numbers for Variable Tranche (VT) indicators as Net enrolment rates depend on estimating the age cohort of the population based on very out of date data. i.e., the children of ECD and pre-primary age had not been born at the time of the last major household surveys, and since then there has been major migration within Namibia, as well as (to a lesser extent) internationally. Therefore, estimation of net enrolment rates could be subject to revision and or dispute, making it unsuitable for variable tranche purposes (not a sufficiently SMART indicator).</td></tr><tr><td>Unclear transfer of responsibilities from MGEPESW to MoEAC</td><td>Risk 5</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>EU policy dialogue plus UNICEF complementary support. Where possible, the focus is on functions rather than on the institutions responsible, although in reality different Ministries have differing capacities.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [79, 1568, 239, 1591], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Lessons Learnt:**"}, {"bbox": [79, 1593, 967, 1621], "category": "Text", "text": "The main lessons learnt from the evaluation of budget support under the 11th EDF ESRC are that:"}, {"bbox": [571, 1660, 656, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page | 20"}]