Policy and Strategy Dimensions	Actions (in 2006)	Actions (in 2008)	Actions (in 2010)
Expand access to ECE programmes for 5 year olds targeted on those comments with high enrolment rates and high repetition rates in primary schools. Ensure entry of all 6 year olds into primary school by performing regular population census and by issuing a decree and guidelines for 6 years as age of entry to primary school	Decree and guidelines issued for 6 years as age of entry into primary school, linked to expanded ECE for 5 year olds.	Progress review of effectiveness of ECE strategy.	Impact survey of new decree and implications for ECE strategy.
Reduce parental costs barriers (such as informal payments) by increasing operational budgets for schools and teachers’ salaries.		Abolish informal payments in grade 1-9 nationwide by the end of 2008. Regulations and guidelines issued for the management and accounting of any contributions from parents by 2008.	Review of overall primary and secondary school budget outturns 2006-10.
Reduce repetition and drop-outs levels in all grades , with the priority for improvements in grades 1–6 by improved and more relevant school curriculum, expanded and more effective remedial classes during the school year, alongside periodic and continuous student assessment and standards monitoring.	Guidelines and action plan issued for grades 3-9 school re-entry programs for school dropouts.	Progress review of grades 3-9 re-entry programs.	Impact study on re-entry program and implications for future expansion and targeting.
Enable greater private/community involvement in all stages of schooling in order to increase understanding of importance of education as well as achieving greater transparency and accountability in the structures.		Study on the involvement of commune councils and parent committees in school activities.
Continued provision of new schoolsor additional facilities to incomplete primary schools as well as locating school facilities closer to home thus reducing direct and opportunity costs for families.	Facilities development plan for primary schools, including incomplete schools.	Progress review of facilities coverage.	Impact study of the effectiveness of the facilities development.
Increase enrolment of students in grades 7-9 by constructing lower secondary school facilities in currently under-served areas.		Progress review on grades 7-9 expansion, including review of targeting criteria.	Impact review on grades 7-9 expansions.
Increase enrolment of students in grades 10-12 by constructing lower secondary school facilities in currently under-served areas.	Facilities development plan for grades 10-12	Progress review on grades 10-12 expansion, including review of targeting criteria.	Impact review on grades 10-12 expansions.
Ensure teacher provision in remote and disadvantaged areas by recruiting teacher trainees from these areas through particular recruitment criteria, and by recruiting as formal education staff teaching staff in these areas that have been trained by NGOs. Improve the efficiency of staff deployment by provision of additional incentives for teachers working in disadvantaged, remote or ethnic minority areas.	Action plan for introduction of multi-grade teaching and other strategies in border, remote and/or ethnic minority areas. Action plan for deployment and redeployment, including appropriate incentives, of teaching and non-teaching staff to understaffed and new schools, as well as introduction of new teacher training.	Progress review on staff deployment strategy in 2008.
Ensure widely expanded provision of quality upper secondary education based on merit and result of grade 9 examinations			Impact review of post-secondary admissions.
Increase the number of scholarships for students from poor families, especially girls, to ensure their access to primary, secondary and post secondary schools and introduce merit-driven support programs for post-basic students from poor families, girls, ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged groups. Ensure better poverty targeted primary school feeding and grades 7-9 incentives programs.	MoEYS/MoEF agreement on Government contributions for grades 1–12. Report on the amount of money given to each HEI against the number of non-fee paying students accepted.	Expansion of program for secondary and post-secondary students.	Impact study of program by poverty/gender indexed enrolment patterns.
Expand provision of quality higher education with equity through promoting public/private partnerships and through institutional and financial reforms that allow for greater operational autonomy and income generating authority for higher educational institutions.		Plan for phased expansion of higher education institutions. All public higher education institutions transferred to become Public Administrative Institutions by 2008.	Impact study of HEI expansion programs, including expansion of provincial HEIs
Expand public/NGO/community partnerships in non-formal education in border and remote areas as well as increase support for provision of local skills and vocational training and basic/required professional skills responsive to the needs of the social and labour market.		Progress review of youth skills training. Progress review on NFE programs.	Impact study of NFE programs.