Ten-Year Education and Training Plan (PDEF) 2020-2030

The plan came out of work begun in 2015 after the mixed record of the 2010-2015 operational plan. A National Technical Committee set up in 2019 finalized it under the Office National de Partenariat en Education (ONAPE), with the MENFP's Studies and Programming Unit (UEP). IIEP-UNESCO gave technical support funded by the European Union, and the plan was evaluated by an independent expert with World Bank funding.

Chapter I analyzes the education system from 2010 to 2019. The non-public network is the large majority of the system, the public network is thin in preschool and secondary education, and executed state education spending equals 2.6 percent of GDP. A reconstruction of the cohort that entered first year of basic education in 2005-06 shows 99,000 young people, 41 percent of the cohort, leaving school after the first or second cycle only. The plan names four priorities: governance of the system, an effective and continuous education service, graduates with the skills and values for national development, and priority for the most disadvantaged groups.

Chapter II sets three program axes: governance, quality and relevance, and access and equity, with 10 priority programs and 33 sub-programs. Enrollment targets for 2030 include public schools taking 55 percent of children aged 6 to 11 (40 percent in 2015-16), public preschool centers 15 percent of children aged 3 to 5 (5.4 percent in 2015-16), vocational training for 100,000 young people and higher education for 150,000 students. The State is to create 250,000 places in public basic education cycles 1 and 2 between 2020 and 2030. Chapter III sets up a strategic and decision-making committee, a technical committee, executing structures and consultation tables. Chapter IV costs the plan in constant 2019-20 gourdes: operating spending rises 4.8 percent a year to 23.9 billion gourdes in 2029-30, investment spending is about the same size, and an assumed USD 100 million a year in external support leaves a gap that grows from 1,099 million gourdes in 2020-21 to 6,011 million in 2029-30. Annex I lists the monitoring and evaluation indicators.