Community participation planning framework

The development objective of the Decentralizing Fund to Schools Project for Myanmar is to help improve and expand Myanmar’s school grants program and student stipends program. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) increases in the share of school grant spending on initiatives directly aimed at supporting teaching and learning (pedagogical materials, supplies, professional development, etc.); (2) continued increases in the amount of funding transferred directly to schools using a formula-based approach (for example, in the case of primary schools, increase per school amounts from an average of about United States (U.S.) 300 dollars per school annually in 2012-13 to approximately U.S. 2,000 dollars per school annually by 2020-21); (3) increases in the transition rate of grades 5 and 6 in all townships selected for the stipends program; (4) increases in the primary completion rate for all townships selected for the stipends program; and (5) continuing expansion of the stipends program from about 37,000 students in 2015-16 to approximately 200,000 students in 2020-21.