Capacity Development in the Education Sector in Nepal Five days for Capacity Development in the Education Sector in Nepal – Highlights
Nepal has despite unruly times, achieved considerable progress in offering access to education. Quality is, however, far from good enough. How can the education sector and its development partners help the sector to develop capacity to make schools perform, thereby achieving better learning achievements?
This was the challenge discussed during a five days action learning process hold in Kathmandu from 14‐18th September 2009. After a half‐day session for a broad stakeholder group, a small group worked intensively for three days to shape a conceptual framework for CD in the sector, outline an action plan for making the framework operational, and form a core team that can carry the process forward. On the last day, the small group presented the results for endorsement by the wider stakeholder group. A number of important key messages emerged during the week: • CD is not something apart, but closely linked to the wider School Sector Reform Plan. It is a perspective and approach that must be mainstreamed when the reform is made operational at all levels. • CD should – as the reform is doing it – focus on the school level performance • Ownership is crucial not only at ministry and central level, but at all levels. CD is mainly an internal process, where external partners can facilitate. • The role of a central level CD framework and core team will be to facilitate and support CD processes, not to control and steer according to a blueprint • CD should adopt a constant learning perspective, sharing lessons and building on previous successful experiences.
At the end of the learning event, there was a broad consensus and a team ready to take the next steps. Much more needs to be clarified and detailed, but the process empowered the core team that will – provided continued backing and commitment from senior leadership and support from development partners – be able to engage in a creative and demanding process of getting capacity development right in the centre of the SSRP implementation. |