Pakistan has expressed its commitment for achieving the Education for All (EFA) goals, yet according to a report from the Asian Development Bank, Pakistan’s Net Enrollment Rate, adult literacy rate, and the EFA Development Index are the lowest in the region. This poor performance is largely attributed to incoherent planning: poor education management and insufficient budgetary allocations and spending at all tiers of government.
The Institute of Social and Policy Sciences (I-SAPS) works to improve effectiveness of public spending in education, and in this study aims to identify major issues in budgetary allocations and disbursements in the education budget, highlight problems in inter-tier fiscal transfers and spending, and identify corruption and inefficiencies at the service delivery level.
