Promotion and development of improved management and planning methods and techniques in order to facilitate the formulation and implementation of educational policies and strategies which may help to reconcile social demand and qualitative improvements with severe resource constraints. This entails updating and disseminating advanced approaches, methods and techniques, as well as supporting training programmes for key education personnel (planners, administrators, supervisors) at national, regional and sub-regional levels, especially through networks of training and research institutions and cooperative programmes for the training of trainers.
UNESCO's programme includes the following elements: conducting research and studies in priority areas in educational policy, planning, management and administration; reinforcing national capacities in policy planning, management and evaluation of education, mainly through training and dissemination of results.