Building effective teacher salary systems in fragile and conflict affected states
Janice Dolan
April Golden
Susy Ndaruhutse
Susy is responsible for Education Development Trust’s global work supporting education system reform. With 20 years’ experience of working collaboratively with low- and middle-income governments, multilateral and bilateral donors, and NGOs on policy, strategy, finance and capacity development initiatives, she uses her expertise to oversee the quality of our work. She is a strong believer in drawing from the best available global evidence on what works, but taking into account the local political, economic and social context to ensure that all the work we do is responsive to local needs and leaves a lasting legacy for future generations of young people.
Rebecca Winthrop
This report argues that policy makers need to have a dual focus - not only on increasing national and international resources for teacher salaries, but also on supporting teacher salary systems and the individual parts within them to ensure that resources reach their intended destination.
This report provides practitioners – including governments, donors, United Nations agencies, and civil society organisations – with a clear framework for assessing teacher salary systems in FCAS. The framework has been developed by the authors based on general public financial management (PFM) principles, systems and processes and some supporting literature on PFM. The thinking behind it is also supported by a rapid review of the limited literature on different components of teacher salary systems in developing countries. The report first provides a model for understanding the different parts of a teacher salary system and second identifies 17 of the major challenges to effective systems as well as a number of possible solutions to each of the challenges.