Technological and Professional Skills Development Sector Project

The competitive-based funding through block grants is a useful mechanism to upgrade the quality of higher education by promoting transparency and accountability, and building a strong sense of ownership among higher education institutions. This mechanism is found to be effective which has been adopted by other development partners, and national and local governments. What made it more laudable as a mechanism for higher education institutions was the added feature that bidders within a region compete only among themselves rather than at large, thereby ensuring geographic representation of assisted higher education institutions.