Submitted by sep_admin on Tue, 2019-12-10 11:52
Pakistan has made significant strides towards achieving the goal of equitable access to quality education over past several years. A number of reform initiatives have been witnessed at both the federal and the provincial tiers to improve the education sector across the country. In 2010, introduction of eighteenth constitutional amendment act led to the devolution of all administrative and legislative functions relating to education to the provinces. As a result, education policy, planning, governance and management processes were reconfigured across all provinces. Despite wide-ranging reforms and initiatives undertaken at the provincial and district levels, the challenge of effective education service delivery continues to persist across all provinces. This report assesses education management and service delivery capacities especially at provincial and district levels in all the four provinces of Pakistan. Within the overall horizontal and vertical operational structure, the study focuses on four key areas of administrative and structural loopholes, operational gaps, coordination challenges and capacity constraints that hinder effective education service delivery. This study also provides recommendations to address these gaps and challenges.