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transferring skills. The value and contributionof partners to the education sector will be enhancedthrough improved understanding andcollaborative implementation.A government-led education sector needs to besupported through building an accountableand transparent system of education financingand administration. The underpinning strategythat the government will employ to achieve itspolicy goals, therefore, is the reform and restructuringof the management systems inplace that facilitate the delivery of educationservices. At the primary and secondary schoollevel, a major policy shift seeks to devolvegreater authority to the school level for minoroperating expenses, planning and execution.This is part of the overall intention to improvegovernance and management standards.Recruitment processes will be reviewed and bepart of the overall public administration reforms.Registration of all teaching professionalsacross the sector, implementation of publicadministration reform, teacher salaries andother incentives are being reviewed as part ofthe pay and grading process, including appropriatecareer development of teaching professionalsbased on merit and performance to increaseretention, in conjunction with the CivilService Commission.StrategiesPrimary and Secondary Education: A comprehensivefive-year strategic plan 55 for thedelivery of education services has been developedby the Ministry of Education to meet themedium-term benchmarks for primary andsecondary education set in the AfghanistanCompact by 2010. Based on the overarchingpolicy of attaining national and gender equityin access to quality and relevant education, includingaffirmative action initiatives, the StrategicPlan encompasses the National EducationProgram that comprises two subsets of priorityprograms. The first set comprises service deliveryprograms and the second set quality assuranceand support programs. The servicedelivery programs are General Education, IslamicEducation, Technical/Vocational Educa-tion and Literacy, 56 while the quality of educationis assured through the Teacher Education& Working Conditions, Curriculum Development& Learning Materials, Education InfrastructureRehabilitation and Development, andEducation Administration Reform and Management.Each of these programs has a set ofcosted projects that are prioritized and sequencedfor implementation. For detail informationrefer to Volume II.Higher Education: The Higher Educationstrategy involves improving quantity and qualityaspects to satisfy the demand for the marketbased economy with skilled professionals. Thiswill involve increasing the capacity to accommodatemore qualified students, together withan improvement in the quality of higher educationby improving the number and quality oflecturers and offering a greater variety ofcourses. There are plans to provide universitieswith greater autonomy. A key componentof the strategy is to encourage universities toenter into cooperative arrangements with otheruniversities, both domestic and foreign, so thatthere can be an exchange of lecturers. Implementationof this strategy has already commenced.Eleven cooperative partnerships betweenindividual universities in the countrywith well qualified foreign universities are invarious stages of finalization.In 2007 a Higher Education Law has beenpassed by Cabinet. A Master’s course has alreadybegun as part of the objective to offer agreater variety of courses. Ministry of HigherEducation has started to introduce accreditationthrough the Academic CoordinationCommittee. This body, whilst still in the earlystages will also be involved in quality assuranceand control, which is an integral componentof the accreditation procedures. Thiscomponent of the strategy will be monitored bythe structure that has been established throughan agreement and Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) signed with the World Bankon establishment of Afghanistan NationalQualification Authority. In its efforts to improvethe quality of Higher Education, mostfunds available to the Ministry will be used torefurbish the existing university campuses and55 National Education Strategic Plan (1385-1389), Ministry ofEducation, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.56 Outputs of these programs contribute to the development anddelivery of the Skills Development sub-sector.118Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)
carry out construction of buildings for librariesand laboratories in the existing universities. Itis also important as part of the strategy to conducta review of university funding so thatuniversities have greater autonomy. For detailinformation refer to Volume II.Skills Development and Training: Many ofthe courses delivered by mandated institutionssuffer from the similar problems: lack of modernequipment that can be used by students toacquire trade-relevant skills and lack of adequatelytrained and motivated staff. Issues thatneed to be addressed include the need toclearly identify administrative responsibilityfor delivering and setting standards in the areaof vocational education. There are problems ofstaff shortages, overbuilding, lack of standardizationin training courses, and qualificationsthat are difficult for potential employers to access.These problems are being addressedthrough the MoU mentioned above.The strategy that has been proposed to addressthis is to establish a new organization, NationalVocational Education and Training Board(NVETB) that would manage, but not operate,all vocational training institutions. The NVETBwould set minimum core competencies forcourses, carry out accreditation, and inspectvocational institutions, to ensure that they meetminimum standards. They would be responsiblefor calling tenders to operate vocationaltraining facilities owned by the state. Tendersto operate training centers that comply withNVETB standards could be accepted from boththe public and private sectors. The proposedapproach using NVETB would address theproblems of lack of modern equipment that canbe used by students to acquire trade-relevantskills, lack of adequately-trained and motivatedstaff, and lack of standardization in courses. Itwould provide for sustainability of the sector,which is currently lacking. Part of the strategywould involve the development of an accreditationsystem for NGO and private sector providerswho provide the bulk of vocationaltraining. By 2008 there would be a plan to formalizeexisting apprenticeship arrangementsand expand the system. The approach will ensurethat a recognized qualification is providedto people undertaking apprenticeships whohave achieved specified basic competencies.Technical/vocational education, as part of theformal secondary education, is included underthe National Education Strategic Plan as is Literacyand Non-formal education. These twoprograms address all three policy goals of thesector. Under the former a National Institute ofAdministration and Management is being establishedto address the lack of capacity in boththe public and private sectors in basic projectmanagement, accountancy and booking andinformation and communication technology. Anation-wide literacy and productive skills programis being launched that is envisaged makingat least half a million people literate andnumerate with skills that will enable them tofind employment. This would be in addition tonumerous other literacy service providers whocoordinate their activities and interventionsunder the leadership of the National LiteracyCentre.There are now firm proposals agreed to byrelevant institutions to the establishment ofregulatory bodies to operate across the wholeof the education spectrum in order to improveeducational standards. These include a Boardof Secondary Education, a National VocationalEducation and training Board, the Islamic EducationBoard and Higher Education Board. Ithas been agreed to establish the necessary legislationfor these Boards and for the implementationof the Afghanistan National QualificationsFramework. In order to oversee thesecomponents of the strategy a committee oneducation and skills policy has been established.This committee covers the entire educationsector. It is chaired by the Vice-President.There are four Government members representingMoE, MoHE, MoLSAMD and MoF, twomembers representing the private sector andtwo members representing the donor community.A committee to monitor Capacity Utilization,headed by the Minister of economy willalso be established. This committee will monitorindividual projects where there is potentialfor capacity utilization issues to present implementationproblems. The private sector willbe represented on this Committee. For detailinformation refer to Volume II.In some countries, heavy investments in highereducation have resulted in low returns becauseof low absorption capacity for these skills in theeconomy, with unemployment rates high forgraduates unwilling to take jobs consideredbeneath their skill level. If the quality of educationcan be improved, this is not expected to bea problem in Afghanistan where there is aEconomical and Social Development 119
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In the name of Allah, the most Merc
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Executive SummaryI. INTRODUCTIONAfg
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Executive Summarydeveloping capacit
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2. The Afghan National Police (ANP)
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Executive SummarySustaining the nas
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Map of AfghanistaniiiAfghanistan Na
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capacity limitations throughout the
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of the country’s 34 provinces are
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The regional cooperation initiative
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CHAPTER 2THE PARTICIPATORY PROCESS
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CHAPTER 4MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORKHig
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policy, it will remain vigilant aga
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threats are deterred, contained or
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Significant steps have been taken s
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Table 5.1. Integration of the Cross
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Current Situation in the SectorAfgh
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