This formative evaluation of key areas of preschool education policy in Serbia will reflect on the scope, content, quality and sustainability of reform initiatives at different levels (central and local), and through their contextualization serve as the basis of planning support to the development of the system (having in mind the dynamic nature of implementation of policies and measures and desired changes in the system, the complexity of reform processes and conceptual and methodological challenges in their monitoring and valuation). Such evidence is highly necessary in order to ensure an evidence-based continued roll-out of these important reform processes.
The evaluation will be instrumental for further analyzing the progress that has been made in Serbia with a focus on outcomes and impacts, but also for looking specifically at key bottlenecks, and exploring where and what types of effective solutions to those bottlenecks have been implemented by the Government of Serbia including those conducted with the support of UNICEF and why they were or were not successful. In particular, there is a need to look at the key accelerators to ensure further advances in the quality, equity and accessibility of pre-school education. Therefore, the evaluation will be important to provide a formative assessment of the most effective and efficient way forward in the area of pre-school education for both the Government of Serbia, UNICEF and other stakeholders supporting the reform initiatives.
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Type | |
Joint | No |
Partner/s | N/A |
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Agency Focal Point | Ana Prodanovic |
Focal Point Email | aprodanovic@unicef.org |
Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
Geographic Scope | Country |
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