LIVE text: “Școala Mea” at 5 Years of Implementation: Results and Lessons Learned
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The Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” held a national conference reviewing five years of the “Școala Mea” project. It brought together representatives of the more than 100 participating schools, district education departments, local authorities, regional partners, policymakers and education experts to discuss results and lessons learned.
Over five years, the project involved about 50,000 people from 27 districts, plus Chișinău, Bălți and UTA Găgăuzia, in discussions on school budgets. A hundred schools learned and applied social accountability tools. The project also built the website www.ScoalaMea.md, with profiles of 1,275 educational institutions, including budgets, average spending per pupil and school performance. This autumn, 20 public hearings drew 3,300 participants.
Speakers from the World Bank, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, schools, local government and the National Anticorruption Centre said the tools strengthened school administrative boards, budget transparency and community involvement. Panellists called for the tools to be institutionalised and replicated nationally, and hoped the project would continue, since one hundred schools is still too few.
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