National
Education Accounts (NEA)
Morocco
October 2004 – September 2005
 Morocco
spends 25% of its overall budget on education, yet educational
achievements remain low. More than 85% goes to salaries,
leaving little to address the quality and relevance of
education. The National Charter for Education and Training
(the Charter, 1999), Morocco’s policy framework for
education reform, emphasizes the need for universal, relevant
and quality education and encourages the creation of partnerships
to achieve education and training objectives in the 16
regions. Furthermore, the Charter specifically stipulates
the need to develop National Education Accounts (NEA) to
serve as a basis for annual reporting and budget requests.
In
partnership with Abt Associates, BEPS has adapted the experience
of National Health Accounts in Morocco to develop
National Education Accounts (NEA) as a transparent and
user-friendly tool for collecting and analyzing data on
actual allocations and expenditures of resources (public,
private, and donors) and linking those expenditures and
allocation to system reforms. The NEA will provide a more
detailed snapshot of resource usage, enable more evidence-policymaking
in the education sector, and present an opportunity for
greater harmonization of donor programs through the use
of more standard set of tables, reports and indicators
of performance. The project also aims to institutionalize
the NEA in Morocco by building the capacity of Ministry
of Education officials to understand and utilize the system.
If the pilot proves successful, the NEA model may be expanded
for use in other countries.
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