Education Planners Handbook

INTRODUCTION

The OECS Education Reform Unit has, over the years, supported a series of major
reforms in education in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MOE) in each Member
State. The Eastern Caribbean Education Reform Project (ECERP), with financial assistance
from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), has implemented a number of
initiatives aimed at strengthening the capacity of Eastern Caribbean States to plan and implement
education reform through sub-regional cooperation. To this end, two such initiatives involve the
identification and use of a set of core education indicators and a sub-regional Education
Management Information System (EMIS) for the OECS. These two initiatives provide the
“framework and mechanisms” which we can use to monitor the performance of education in the
OECS.