LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC PEACE INDEPENDENCE DEMOCRACY UNITY PROSPERITY MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SPORTS EDUCATION AND SPORTS SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2025 Vientiane, October 2020 Lao People’s Democratic Republic Peace Independence Democracy Unity Prosperity Ministry of Education and Sports EDUCATION AND SPORTS SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2025 Vientiane, October 2020 Table of content Preamble ................................................................................................................................................. iii Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................. iv List of Acronyms ....................................................................................................................................... v PART I : EDUCATION AND SPORTS SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2025 ....................................... 1 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Lessons learned from ESDP 2016-20 ....................................................................................... 1 1.2. Approach for the development of ESSDP 2021-25 ................................................................. 3 2. Main achievements during 2016-20 ................................................................................................ 3 3. Context for ESSDP 2021-25 ............................................................................................................. 8 3.1. Background .............................................................................................................................. 8 3.2. Impact of COVID-19 ............................................................................................................... 11 3.3. Priority Policy Objectives for ESSDP 2021-25 ........................................................................ 12 3.4. Risks for ESSDP 2021-25 ........................................................................................................ 13 4. Overall Goal 2021-25 ..................................................................................................................... 13 5. Overarching Outcome 2021-25 ..................................................................................................... 14 6. Expected High Level Outcomes ..................................................................................................... 14 Important caveat regarding achieving the eight high-level outcomes ............................................. 14 6.1. High-Level Outcome 1: .......................................................................................................... 14 6.2. High-Level Outcome 2: .......................................................................................................... 19 6.3. High-Level Outcome 3: .......................................................................................................... 22 6.4. High-Level Outcome 4: .......................................................................................................... 26 6.5. High-Level Outcome 5: .......................................................................................................... 27 6.6. High-Level Outcome 6: .......................................................................................................... 31 6.7. High-Level Outcome 7: .......................................................................................................... 35 6.8. High-Level Outcome 8: .......................................................................................................... 37 7. Resources and Financial Requirements for ESSDP 2021-25 .......................................................... 38 8. Implementation M&E Framework for ESSDP 2021-25 .................................................................. 49 PART II: SUB-SECTOR PLAN 2021-2025 ................................................................................................. 69 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 69 I. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION SUB-SECTOR PLAN ..................................................................... 70 II. PRIMARY EDUCATION SUB-SECTOR PLAN ..................................................................................... 77 III. LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION SUB-SECTOR PLAN ................................................................... 86 IV. UPPER SECONDARY EDUCATION SUB-SECTOR PLAN .................................................................... 94 V. NON-FORMAL EDUCATION SUB-SECTOR PLAN ........................................................................... 100 VI. TEACHER EDUCATION SUB-SECTOR PLAN ................................................................................... 107 VII. TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING....................................................... 115 VIII. HIGHER EDUCATION SUB SECTOR PLAN ..................................................................................... 120 IX. SPORT-PHYSICAL EXERCISE SUB-SECTOR PLAN ........................................................................... 128 X. ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT SUB-SECTOR PLAN ....................................................... 136 i Table of content, Figure and annex Table 1: The Share of Education Budget during 2016-2020 ................................................................. 38 Table 2: The Education Budget Vs ESDP Financing Requirement ......................................................... 39 Table 3: The Share of Education Budget by Chapters ........................................................................... 41 Table 4: Priority Expenditure Programmes ........................................................................................... 42 Table 5: The key parameters for the two scenarios .............................................................................. 45 Table 6: Costs of the Steady-State scenario .......................................................................................... 46 Table 7: Costs of the Education Quality scenario .................................................................................. 46 Table 8: Financing Plan under Steady State scenario ........................................................................... 48 Table 9: Financing Plan under Education Quality scenario ................................................................... 48 Figure 1: ESSDP 2021-2025 and annual planning and performance monitoring and evaluation cycle 52 Table 10: ESSDP Indicators (Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a MTFF is not available from MoF and therefore there is uncertainty about the education budget, thus targets are indicative only, and will be updated after the MTFF becomes available) ................................................................................... 54 Table 11: Comparison of indicators of ECE from 2016-2020 ................................................................ 70 Table 12: Comparison of indicators of primary education from 2016-2020 ........................................ 77 Table 13: Comparison of internal efficiency for primary education ..................................................... 77 Table 14: Comparison of indicators of lower secondary education from 2016-2020 .......................... 86 Table 15: Comparison of internal efficiency for lower secondary education ....................................... 86 Table 16: Comparison of indicators of upper secondary education from 2016-2020 .......................... 94 Table 17: Comparison of internal efficiency for upper secondary education ....................................... 94 Table 18: Comparison of indicators of non-formal education from 2016-2020 ................................. 100 Table 19: Comparison of indicators of teacher education from 2016-2020 ....................................... 107 Table 20: Graduates from Teacher Education Institutions from 2016-2020 ...................................... 107 Table 21: Comparison of indicators of TVET from 2016-2020 ............................................................ 116 Table 22: Graduates from TVET from 2016-2020 ............................................................................... 116 Table 23: Comparison of indicators of higher education (four public universities) from 2016-2020 120 Table 24: Comparison of indicators of graduates from higher education from 2016-2020 ............... 121 Annex 1: Result Chain ......................................................................................................................... 149 Annex 2: ESSDP 2021-25: Consultation Process ................................................................................. 158 Annex 3: List of MoES 40 priority districts – identified on basis of poor educational performance .. 159 Annex 4: Comparison of education performance ............................................................................... 160 Annex 5: Risk and Mitigation ESSDP 2021-25 ..................................................................................... 162 Annex 6: Projected enrolments, required total financing and expected external financing .............. 172 Annex 7: Statistics of students studying