267 Funds of Sector Budget Support amounting to 10.410 billion CFA francs earmarked for
BSI external financing are broken down as follows:
6.764 billion CFA francs for the central level, representing 64.98%;
3.645 billion CFA francs, representing 35.02% for external services.
268. Under Special Investment Budget (BSI) and other investments, commitments stood at
27.820 billion CFA francs. They include among others, infrastructure construction and
equipment.
The difficulties and constraints:
269. The main difficulties and constraints encountered were:
The results of this study showed that students had only 112 days of learning in 20092010, out of the 172 planned by the department, representing 71%;
difficulties in the execution of financial resources transferred to local authorities
(public expenditures implementation procedures);
the slow disbursement of funds for the sector budget support at the external level;
delay in reporting on the execution of credits transferred to local councils in 2010;
Slow handling of: (i) salary arrears of teachers in terms of advancement and
upgrading; (ii) arrears of school fees and half scholarships; (iii) student-teachers
scholarship arrears; (iv) construction, rehabilitation and equipping of classrooms; (V)
further training of teachers.
Prospects :
270. In 2012, the following actions will be taken:
Acquisition of equipment for the various departments ;
In a bid to establish “close supervision” likely to improve teachers’ performance, twenty-nine
(29) Teachers’ Resource Centres were created (two old ones were abolished), thus bringing
the total number of TRC’s to between 70 and 97.
For the 2011-2012 academic year, the following activities were carried out with the view to
strengthening the implementation of the educational decentralisation/devolution policy:
The review of the agreement between the Ministry of Education and ANICT to ensure
effective monitoring of the development of school infrastructure by the communities ;
The management of the career plans of public servants of local authorities ( CT)
(ranking, training, promotion, mobility, etc.) ;
The adoption of a regulatory text on the Education Committees of the local authorities ;
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