the creation of boards of trustees opens up avenues for improved transparency and reporting procedures at the school level but their roles are still unclear additional funds need to be spent wisely and go alongside improving the efficiency of public funds use investments should be prioritised to the early educational years as well as to equity and qualityenhancing aspects another priority should be the strengthening of the performance monitoring and accountability mechanisms in the education system also the budget envelope should be increased only slowly in parallel with the increase of the capacity of the system to absorb new programmes and new approaches