Education Subsidy: Helping Achieve MD Goal on Universal Primary Education

Summary

This publication documents the Philippine education subsidy scheme and its implementation experience, as well as offers a convenient tool kit which may serve as a useful reference for replication by government in their public school system.

The primary goal of the education subsidy is to contribute to increasing the level of school participation and the retention rate in secondary education among disadvantaged youth. The program had many identifiable successes and documents some of the challenges faced.