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School Autonomy and Accountability Ratings and Data

A description of the School Autonomy and Accountability scoring methodology and the meaning of categorical ratings displayed below are available in evidence-based frameworks.

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	Guinea-Bissau Country Report 2017 0
Level of autonomy in the planning and management of school budget	Latent
Legal authority over the management of the operational budget	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	A dispatch regarding the Fondo Social de Apoio Escolar (FSAE) represents a budget preparation and management process involving schools, regions and the central level. While some secondary schools participate, the dispatch is not widely applied and schools
Legal authority over the management of the non-teaching staff salaries	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	In accordance with official policies, legal authority over the management of non-teaching staff salaries is centralized.
Legal authority over the management of teacher salaries	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Legal management authority over teacher salaries is centralized. Salaries are determined through the Teacher Career Law and the Civil Service pay scale.
Legal authority to raise additional funds for the school	Established
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Schools can raise additional funds from parents and members of the community, private companies, and non-governmental institutions.
Collaborative budget planning	Emerging
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	There are some legal provisions that permit the school to propose a budget to the subnational level as a request for financing. Under the dispatch on secondary school fees, schools may be permitted to request financing from government agencies, which cou
Level of autonomy in personnel management	Latent
Autonomy in teacher appointment and deployment decisions	Emerging
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Teachers are appointed at the central level by the Ministry of Education through the Civil Service Ministry. Regional Directors have legal authority to deploy teachers to the schools.
Autonomy in non-teaching staff appointment and deployment decisions	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Officially, non-teaching staff should be appointed and deployed by the central government, through the civil service ministry.
Autonomy in school principal appointment and deployment decisions	Emerging
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Policy indicates that directors should be appointed through the civil service and allocated by the central level. Their performance should be evaluated by the regional level and the education inspectorate.
Role of the school council on school governance	Emerging
Participation of the school councils in budget preparation	Emerging
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	The school management commission (for FSAE) can have a voice in the planning and preparation of non-salary budget items at the school level, but final responsibility belongs to the school director or other government authority.
Participation of the school councils in financial oversight	Established
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	The school management commission (for FSAE) has legal standing as an organization and the authority to have voice on budget issues, but they do not have legal authority for oversight of budget issues.
Participation of the school council in personnel management	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	School management commissions (for FSAE) and CGEs do not have legal rights or voice in appointment, transfer or removal of teachers.
Participation of the school councils in school activities	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	There are no formal instructions, manuals or mandates for organizing volunteers to implement activities.
Participation of the school councils in learning inputs	Emerging
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	School management commissions have legal authority to express opinions, but not supervision over learning inputs (such as student attendance, books, and learning materials).
Transparency in community participation	Established
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	There are provisions for the open election of members of school management commissions. There are provisions for the election of committee members, but not formal guidelines for calling general assemblies.
School and student assessment	Latent
Existence and Frequency of school assessments	Established
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	The inspectorate uses Ministry of Education criteria to assess schools. By policy this should be done several times per year (but in practice due to limited resources frequency varies considerably).
Use of school assessments for making school adjustments	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Schools do not use school evaluations to make pedagogical adjustments or to adapt learning materials.
Existence and Frequency of standardized student assessments	Emerging
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Students do not take standardized tests. The national dispatch on the evaluation system indicates that students should be evaluated through national exams and benchmarked evaluation, however, the regulations and budget are not yet in place to support thi
Use of standardized student assessments for pedagogical, operational, and personnel adjustments	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Schools do not use standardized student assessments to make pedagogical adjustments or to adapt learning materials.
Publication of student assessments	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	The results of student assessments are not reported and there is no clear policy that indicates how the results should be published.
School Accountability	Emerging
Guidelines for the use of results of student assessments	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	There are no guidelines for the use of student assessment results.
Analysis of school and student performance	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	There are no guidelines for the comparative analysis of results from student assessments by different types of schools, across regions, and for previous years.
Degree of Financial accountability at the central level, regional, municipal, local and school level	Emerging
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	Regulations exist for the completion of general rules for financial management and transparency, but not for linking rewards and sanctions to compliance.
Degree of Accountability in school operations	Established
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	There are regulations for complying with school operational rules and for operational reports to those with oversight authority, but not for linking rewards and sanctions with operating performance.
Degree of learning accountability	Latent
	Guinea-Bissau
Justification	There is no mandate for simplifying and explaining the results of student assessments to the public.

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