Politics of Reform

Political Mapping Tools in Education Reform

This section of the politics of education reform web site presents a series of political mapping tools.  Policymakers and education managers can use these tools in order to better understand the political environment in which education reform unfolds as well as a way to generate greater political support for the reform.  The common purpose of these different tools is to depict the relations of actors to other actors in the context of both substantive and process issues.  When properly used, these tools become very useful to assess who will support and oppose the reform proposal and what can be done to increase policy makers''  room for maneuver.

Assessing Clients' Commitment to Sectoral Reforms: A Reform Readiness Analysis by Haggarty, Luke and Yasuhiko Matsuda.   World Bank, Washington. 1999

About this Guideline: The guideline has been designed as a rapid, user-friendly tool that can help individual country directors, economists and task managers to assess the likelihood of client commitment to any given project. The guideline has been broken into two parts; the first is a very quick two page questionnaire which helps to highlight what, if any, areas of client commitment need further detailed assessment. If this rapid assessment suggests that there are areas of low commitment (or simply not enough information) then the second, more detailed analysis is suggested.