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Project proposal
April 2015
Outline
1. Background and Rationale
2. Project design
2.1. Personnel
2.2. Project plan
3. Monitoring and Evaluation
3.1. Monitoring
3.2. Evaluation
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Nonetheless, ASEAN is still facing critical challenges because of, and not limited
to, disparities in living standards, ageing populations and lack of human
resources. These challenges have become even more urgent given the current
context of ASEAN Community 2015 (AC15).
AC15 refers to the regional integration of all ASEAN countries and is founded
upon three pillars: ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC), ASEAN Economic
Community (AEC), and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC); in other words,
it is the realisation of the ASEAN Motto: One Vision, One Identity, One
Community. This creates a fair and accessible environment where member
states can benefit from a rule-based community of shared values and norms, a
single market and production base and an inclusive society. With collaboration,
however, comes competition, and given the aforementioned challenges, ASEAN
is under pressure to improve its education. By convention this can be achieved
by updating or reforming whole national curricula, but such solution is
problematic: On the one hand, it entails immense economic burden (e.g. money
has to be spent on new textbook design, teacher training, equipment); on the
other, even the most state-of-the-art curriculum, along with all the knowledge it
provides, will eventually be outdated and thus sub-optimal or even invalid.
1 Strictly speaking, at present (2015) Timor-Leste is not yet an ASEAN member state, but in this
proposed project only, the term ASEAN also includes Timor-Leste.
2 In comparison, the average growth of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries is
3%.
2. Project design
2.1. Personnel
The projects personnel organisation is illustrated in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1. Personnel organisation
The project is run by a Management Board, formed by three groups. The Policy
Group consists of one senior ministerial official per country appointed by his/her
Minister of Education, and is chaired by the one from Indonesia. The members
represent their respective governments and will be in charge of supervising the
project, reviewing the agenda, as well as communicating and holding
accountability with the Stakeholders. The Expert Group is made up of three
academics specialising in continuing/non-formal education who will be shortlisted
from a pool of candidates nominated by the Ministries (one candidate per
country); group members will then vote among themselves and elect a chair.
This group will design and monitor the study, analyse the data and draft the
agenda while maintaining close dialogues with the Policy Group. Two SEAMEO
CELLL members will comprise the Coordination Group, whose main
responsibilities are facilitating smooth operation, co-monitoring data collection
and evaluating the whole project; in addition, there will be an ad-hoc expert for
publication.
For each country, there will be a National Committee of one Focal Point, who is
the Director-General (or Deputy-Director) of Continuing/Non-formal Education
Department, and two to five native researchers appointed by the Ministry. The
committees will collect and process data in their countries and compile quarterly
progress reports (for two quarters) that result in a national report, all of which
will be submitted to the Expert Group (see Section 3.1).
Last but definitely not least, the project will be supported by the Stakeholders,
formed by one representative from each of these organisations: SEAMEO CELLL,
UIL, DVV International, UNESCO Bangkok and ASPBAE. The Stakeholders will
mostly function in an advisory role.
Note: For a detailed summary of roles and responsibilities, requirements for
academics in the Expert Group and National Committees, and an estimate of
costs, see the Appendix.
Project inauguration
Stage
1
3 months
Stakeholders introduction
work guidelines
action plan
Study design
Research training
The study
data collection
monitoring (quarterly)
Agenda drafting
Consultation seminar
Stakeholders input
evaluation (survey)
Stage 2
6 months
Stage 3
2 months
Stage 4
3 months
Final conference
agenda introduction
evaluation (interview)
Documentation
Stakeholders will contribute to the agenda by giving additional input, with which
the complete agenda will be composed. The final conference then follows with
the introduction of the finalised agenda. Lastly, the agenda, as well as all other
documents (e.g. research reports, meeting proceedings) which are compiled into
a project report, will be published. Project evaluation will also be performed in
Stage 4 (see Section 3.2).
References
SEAMEO, 2011. Proposal on the Establishment of the SEAMEO Regional Centre
for Lifelong Learning in Vietnam.
ASEAN Charter, 2007.
ROLES
RESPONSIBILITIES
Policy Group
Expert Group
Coordination
Group
National
Committees
CO
DE
1
1.1
1.2
COSTS
Quantit Cost per
y Units Unit ($)
Total ($)
UIL
participan
ts
11
1,000
11,000
11,000
participan
ts
33
1,000
33,000
participan
ts
participan
ts
participan
ts
lump-sum
1,000
3,000
11
1,000
11,000
1,000
2,000
Unit
CATEGORY
10,000
CONTRIBUTION
Participati
SEAMEO
ng
CELLL
Governme
nts
33,000
3,000
11,000
2,000
10,000
Stakeholders
1.3
1.4
participan
ts
22
800
17,600
17,600
participan
ts
participan
ts
800
2,400
2,400
10
1,500
15,000
lump-sum
15,000
5,000
5,000
participan
ts
22
1,000
22,000
22,000
participan
ts
participan
ts
participan
ts
participan
ts
1,000
2,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
3,000
3,000
10
1,500
15,000
participan
ts
lump-sum
11
1,000
11,000
11,000
10,000
10,000
lump-sum
11
5,000
55,000
55,000
Sub-
229,000
2,000
15,000
60,000
97,000
9,000
30,000
total 1
2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
3.1
3.2
person
month
person
month
person
month
person
month
8,000
16,000
16,000
8,000
16,000
16,000
8,000
16,000
16,000
3,000
3,000
3,000
Subtotal 2
51,000
51,000
lump-sum
11
5,000
55,000
55,000
lump-sum
11
10,000
110,000
110,000
Subtotal 3
165,000
165,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
lump-sum
Subtotal 4
5.1
Publishing
Books, reports, guidelines
lump-sum
10,000
10,000
5.2
lump-sum
20,000
Subtotal 5
6
20,000
30,000
30,000
Contingency
10,000
10,000
TOTAL
495,000
131,00
0
262,000
39,000
30,000