Capacity Building Support for the Ministry of National Education

Location

Turkey

Duration

2008 - 2010

Donor

EuropeAid

Budget

3.696.750 EURO

Description and Deliverables

The overall objective is an effective and efficient quality national educational system responsive to the needs of the Turkish people, on a par with European and international standards and creating a knowledge-based society and growth economy.
The overall purpose is to assist the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) in implementing a restructuring process aimed at improving its governance, organization and management, financing, and evaluation/ monitoring capacities to make the preschool to secondary education system more effective and efficient.
Results:

Awareness raised about the institutional management models of the education systems of the EU Member States and examples of corporate governance.
Strategy documents and necessary infrastructure is ready to reorganise the Ministry's structure on the basis of an action plan (Green Paper) to better reflect the need for the educational services in Turkey. The development of alternative models and/or action plans on reorganizing the Ministry's organizational structure by taking into consideration the below stated issues:
- Determination of the educational services which may be transferred to the local authorities,
- Re-definition of the roles of educational parties (students, teachers, school managements, families and non-governmental organizations)
- How the social partners will be included in the educational services,
- Funding and effective use of resources,
- Strengthening of data transfer and mechanisms for accessing to data.
- Strengthening of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for corporate governance drafted and submitted to the upper level management of the Ministry.
Human resources capacity in MoNE at central and provincial levels improved regarding the implementation capacity for corporate governance.
Stakeholders' awareness raised about the results/outputs of the project activities.

Services

general project management
provision of consulting services and training
preparation of seminars, conferences, workshops study visits and implementation of training events
provision of training material and documentation;
To strengthen the dialogue between all related parties, information and monitoring meetings will be organized
Two international symposiums on corporate governance will be organized
Conducting study visits to in EU Member States to be able to draw lessons on various implementation practices in EU.
An analysis of strengths and weaknesses of MoNE's structure and organisation with regard to important areas of corporate governance will be conducted.
The present structure of the Ministry will be analysed and alternative models and/or action plans on reorganizing the Ministry's organizational structure will be developed
Preparing the draft amendments needed in law no 3797 on the organization and duties of the MoNE in line with the strategies and documents (Green Paper) and a draft law including all required amendments will be developed.
Using the outputs of SWOT Analysis, eleven training subjects will be determined and training activities for the relevant personnel at central (General Directors, Deputy General Directors, Head of Departments, Branch Directors) and provincial level (Provincial Directors, Provincial Branch Directors) and for the social partner representatives will be organized.

Website

http://mebgep.meb.gov.tr