(The Financing of Education in Burundi)

This study of Burundi by the Working Group on Finance and Education provides an overview of the country's education system and analysis of the social, political and economic context. It focuses on the formulation and implementation of past and current education policy and discusses education financing mechanisms. It examines in depth the process of budget preparation, execution and control as well as the integration of planning, programming and budgeting at operational level. It gives direct consideration to the question of optimal resource allocation and management and offers causal and general analysis of the issue of education financing. It makes a series of suggestions concerning the search for solutions and recommendations to improve financial management of the education system, presents a detailed analysis of the development problems of community-based junior secondary schools, and recounts the history of the establishment of a new school.