Support to the education sector common fund

Context

Since 2017, the State of Niger with its various partners, including the Luxembourg Cooperation, have set up the Education Sector Common Fund (FCSE), a financing mechanism and tool aligned with national priorities. This innovative mechanism contributes 7% of the sector's financing and helps improve access to quality education.

The Luxembourg Cooperation is continuing its support to the education and vocational training sector as indicated in ICP IV by participating in the implementation of the Education and Training Sector Transition Plan (PTSEF) through its financial support to the FCSE. 

Overall objective

The overall objective of the NIG/030 programme is to "increase acquisition by the population of knowledge, skills and values necessary for a better life and sustainable development" in accordance with the holistic approach to education and training advocated by the PTSEF. This objective corresponds to the strategies and orientations of Luxembourg's Cooperation in the field of education, which is an important lever for human development with a long-term impact.

Specific objective

More specifically, Luxembourg's Cooperation intervention is aimed at the financial management of the FCSE through targeted support in close partnership with the Ministry of Finance and is based on the following results:

• the Luxembourg contribution to the FCSE improves the implementation of the PSEF/PTSEF;
• the planning, programming, budgeting, execution and monitoring-evaluation capacities of the FCSE ministries are improved at the central, deconcentrated and decentralised levels. 

Project intervention strategy

The NIG/030 provides technical assistance for a period of 60 months at the national and regional/local levels to help build institutional capacity and strengthen the performance of school planning, programming, monitoring, and technical and financial reporting systems for decentralised technical services and local authorities.