About the Authors
Peter Darvas has worked on basic, secondary, and higher education and training in Ghana since 2005. He also lived in Ghana between 2006 and 2009 where, as the education sector coordinator for the World Bank and as the sector leader for the development partners, he provided strategic support to the Government of Ghana in its effort to develop the Education Strategic Plan (2010–20) and led partnership in the annual sector performance reviews and in other multidonor partnerships. For the World Bank, Peter led various investment projects including the Education Sector Project, the Education For All—Fast Track Initiative, and the Ghana Skills and Technology Development Project. He also led a number of World Bank–sponsored sector analyses including the Demand and Supply for Technical and Vocational Skills and a study on education service delivery, which provided much of the data and analysis used in this book. Peter works with the World Bank Senior Education Economist at the Human Development Department of the Africa Region and is based in Washington, DC. David Balwanz worked with the Ghana Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service on basic and secondary education, education planning and policy analysis, and program design from 2010 to 2011. During this time, he was embedded in the MoE Planning, Budget, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (PBME), where, in collaboration with PBME colleagues, he completed financial modeling and operational planning exercises to support Ghana’s application for Education For All—Fast Track Initiative funding. From 2011 to 2012, David worked with Department For International Development–Ghana to design programs supporting the expansion of complementary basic education and facilitating strategic planning to guide the reform and expansion of early childhood education in Ghana. David is an independent consultant based in South Africa. His experience includes program design and implementation, evaluation, and research on basic and secondary education programs in several countries, including Afghanistan, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, and Zambia.
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