Briefing Paper

Quest for Sound Funding Policy Reform in Madagascar’s Public Higher Education Sector during the Post-Crisis Years

“Five years after the coup which plunged the country into an unprecedented political and economic crisis, Madagascar is at a watershed in its history with the coming into power of a democratically elected president in February 2014. This is also a time when the country’s
public higher education system is ineluctably taking a downward direction due to chronic financial strife. The withdrawal of donors and international
partners shortly after the outbreak of the
political crisis in 2009 led to the disruption of major higher education reform projects.”