• Overall, according to the Ministry of Education there is a pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) of 65:1 in Mozambique but • Efforts towards achieving greater equity in the education plans to recruit an additional 62,515 teachers by the sector have led to near parity on the Gender Parity end of 2029 will still only reduce this to 55:1. [...] Recent census data indicates there are Financing SDG 4 requires allocating a a total of 171,164 children aged between 5-19 with SHARE of at least 20% of the budget and some form of disability across the country.5 According 6% of GDP to education to the Ministry of Education around 76,843 children with a disability (i.e. [...] Spending at tertiary level is also 16.0 highly pro-rich, due to the low rates of completion 14.0 and progression of poorer children in the public education system.14 12.0 10.0 2012 2013 2016 2017 2018 The schools are few in the urban areas, and Source: UNESCO Institute of Statistics (latest years)* please note, very few in the rural territories. [...] of that going to wages and salaries - and 14% on capital/development projects.16 In Mozambique, in In 2018, Mozambique achieved a tax-GDP ratio18%,24 2019, the government allocated 88% to recurrent which is just above the average ratio of 17.2% in sub- and 12% to capital.17 The capital share of the Saharan Africa.25 Unfortunately, with debt servicing budget has been reducing in recent years - with. [...] Increase the SIZE of the overall budget, maximising the availability of resources for investment in public education by: • Mitigating the effect of macro-economic policies that limit the amounts available for public spending (e.g.
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