this results in the development of fiveyear education budgets that only weakly link to medium and longterm strategies for the education sector nonetheless in a positive development subsequent to the visit by the oecd review team anep established annual targets for the period in its budget plan covering indicators in a range of areas there is the perception that education councils distribute resources so as to ensure some horizontal equity across individual schools ie similar resources are given to schools with similar type of provision the allocation mechanism seeks to ensure that in each school a basic level of resources is made available that enables students regardless of their socioeconomic background to benefit from a similar schooling experience